On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:04:00PM +0100, Bond, Peter wrote:
> > Why, what is wrong with Iceweasel? it's just Firefox without the
> > Mozilla branding and Firefox name. It works fine for me with
> > normal Firefox add-ons. Other than a logo you wouldn't know you
> > you were not using Firefox.
>
> Up until the point that your bank strops about the useragent coming from
> an unsupported browser. Easy enough to fix, but irritating and
> completely unwarranted IMO.
Except Debian had a choice between rebrand Firefox, abandon the
principles it's been working on for over a decade, or abandon Firefox.
Rebranding was considered to be by far the better option, for obvious
reasons. If you disapprove, complain to Mozilla: out of all the free
software with a trademarked name/logo, Mozilla is the only one that
causes problems.
> Also - how well is iceweasel tracking the Firefox releases?
Debian has a new version of Iceweasel just as quickly as it would have a
new version of Firefox (i.e. it can lag behind the actual release by a
couple of days, but so can other things that aren't rebranded).
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