On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 04:42:08PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: > 2008/6/14 Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: > >> I noted from a recent discussion on this list that iceweasel 3.0-rc2 > >> has been made available in Sid and I was wondering what the plans are > >> for support of the gopher protocol in Iceweasel 3? I ask this because > >> support for the gopher protocol has been pulled from the core of > >> FireFox 3 and I was hoping that Debian are not going to make the same > >> (IMHO) mistake. > > > > well, Debian's Iceweasel is simply a rebranded Firefox. I would be > > shocked if debian put back in core functionality that mozilla took > > out... > > I was under the impression that although Iceweasel started off as a > simple rebranding project that the maintainers had greater ambitions > and that they already made changes to the source that have nothing to > do with the branding - am I wrong? hmmm... I don't know that. You could be right, though a moderately quick google and reviewing the debian changelogs suggests that it is largely just rebranding. > > Iceweasel (and FireFox) prior to version 3 despite a few bugs were > the most convenient GUI gopher browser available and the loss of > gopher support would be a big blow for gopher users. that would be a problem. A
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