Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Mike Hommey wrote:
> To be fair, it's not exactly true, because upgrading from firefox to
> iceweasel in debian means upgrading from version 1.0 or 1.5 to 2.0, and
> there are substancial changes that some people dislike, myself included.
> 
> Which means Piotr is actually probably complaining about the fact that
> iceweasel is not quite the same as firefox used to be on his desktop,
> but on the other hand, if it were still named firefox, he would have the
> same opinion.

Maybe not, because the name change makes it visible for him that there
has been a change indeed.  Changes from 1.0 to 1.5 or 1.5 to 2.0 may
be accepted as upstream changes that just happen.  Remember the Cola
tests?  Blindfolded have preferred Pepsi over Coca, with eyes open the
result they preferred the Coca variant.

Regards,

	Joey

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