Iceape/Seamonkey and Iceweasel/Firefox - was Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

[Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Scott Ferguson 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.
> Mozilla Corp. (as opposed to Mozilla Foundation) took offence at:-
>
>    * Debian backporting security fixes to older versions of
>      Firefox/Iceweasel
>    * *at Debian allowing users to change search engines and make other
>      modifications*
>
> , and insisted the use of the Firefox name is permitted only if
> accompanied by its logo, icons, and other artwork (which is in breach of
> the Debian Free Software Guidlines).
>
> Long story short, icons, artwork, logo, and icons changed in the Debian
> version (Icecat is another story).
> So - reduced funtionality in Iceweasel - emphatically no. In fact
> Iceweasel has more functionality than Firefox.
> Feel free to look it up for yourself - the references are on this page
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceweasel
>
> Cheers

Please note: in an effort to trim the message to which I am responding, 
I cut most of it out, apart from the stuff above, and the stuff above 
"Mozilla Corp", above, was posted by me, and from there down, was posted 
by Scott (to avoid confusion about misquoting).

What about the differences between iceape and Seamonkey?

Do they have the same funtionality?

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams,
  published by Pan Books, 1992

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