Re: Iceape/Seamonkey and Iceweasel/Firefox - was Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?
On 17/09/10 23:14, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 00:21, Scott Ferguson
> <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:
>> <snip>
>> (Going from memory here - so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.)
>>
>> Once apon a time there was Netscape suite - which became Mozilla suite
> In spirit only. Netscape 5 would have been a continuation of 4's code base,
> but they tossed it out and wrote Gecko from scratch. The browser built on
> Gecko was called Mozilla (which had been the Netscape code name since
> forever), later it was called Mozilla Suite to distinguish it from other Mozilla
> browsers.
*nod. Thank you.
>> (a pyrrhic victory!)....
> What?
Rebirth from the ashes - Phoenix had complications so Firefox was chosen
to symbolise the victorious rebirth of, um, - the spirit/ghost of
Netscape(?).
Supposedly the revenge of Netscape on fnord Microsoft. (anecdote)
>> which became Seamonkey - due to restrictions
>> placed on it by the Mozilla Corporation, Debian produced the Iceape
>> version.
>> That's a little of the history.
>>
>> Differences:- logos, icons, names etc - plus Iceape is slightly more
>> configurable (user-agent etc.) and security patches to older versions
>> are unaffected by Mozilla freezes.
>> Functionality:- slightly more with Iceape - but I haven't noticed any
>> difference in performance.
> Although the current version of SeaMonkey has more features than
> the old version that is Iceape
>
> Cheers,
> Kelly Clowers
>
>
I must be missing something there Kelly, I confess to very little use of
either (mostly Iceape), but a quick check shows that we deploy both
Iceape and Seamonkey (which implies a great deal of similarity), and
both are the same version number (2.0.8 currently). What features does
SeaMonkey have that Iceape doesn't?
I can't find a feature list for Iceape - but then I can't see anything
on http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/features that Iceape doesn't
do... and I've seen nothing in the Iceape lists to indicate that the
reasons for the split have vanished (backporting of security patches, etc).
On a slightly (more) off-topic question - does any one know how fnord
Ubuntu gets around the Mozilla Corp. restrictions with Firefox?
Cheers
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