Re: Adobe flash is dead (now Firefox/Iceweasel/Mozilla)
On 11/11/11 11:47, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>>>> A .deb package for firefox? Where?
>>>
>>> The Debian Mozilla team makes Firefox deb packages available for
>>> Stable that tracks the current release.
>>>
>>> http://mozilla.debian.net/
>>
>> Nothing about FF here or in any of the backport sites I looked at. Sure
>> you didn't mean iceweasel?
>
> Perhaps you were not aware that Debian Iceweasel is for all practical
> purposes Firefox?
>
> Here are some references to backfill the entire very long story, years
> in the making, a cast of thousands, and that type of thing.
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/10/msg00665.html
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project
>
> Bob
A cast of thousands? :-)
Maybe *two*. The objector from Mozilla, and Mike Hommey the Debian
Mozilla maintainer/superman.
Many, many thanks to him.
Iceweasel is superior to Firefox because:-
;we can modify it without breaching Mozilla copyrights
;we can run less than the latest version of Mozilla code without missing
out on security updates
;because it's maintained by a superman :-D
NOTE: last time I checked you could get a .deb package of Swiftfox - an
"optimised" build of Firefox.
Cheers
--
Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:-
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/
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