On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:13:00 -0600 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: > > I understood that some of the functionality > > (subroutines/modules/whatever) did not comply with the Debian > > philosophy, and so were removed, to make the resultant applications > > compliant with the Debian philosophy. > > It was a trademark issue. And a philosophy issue. See this previous > discussion of it for more information. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/10/msg00665.html > > Bob Also the auto update stuff was removed. When i first started using debian, I looked into the differences between iceweasel and firefox. The only disadvantage from an end-users standpoint in using iceweasel over the firefox from upstream, is that stable releases end up with old versions. If this matters to you, you can always pull in XULRunner and the browser from backports or testing or Unstable or Experimental (I pull mine from the latter and haven’t had any problems so far). Also. until very recently, (think a few weeks, beta 4 ish of FF4) there was no official x86_64 ports available from mozilla! Also, shockingly, adobe has put out a new, up-to-date, 64bit flash for linux et al! see here [1], I just changed from using the 32bit one under nsplugins and it seems faster/more stable! [1] http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ ------ Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97
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