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From: | David Hedlund |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Rename IceCat back to Iceweasel |
Date: | Thu, 10 Aug 2017 02:27:06 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 |
On 2017-08-09 07:40, Henry Jensen wrote:
Please note that Iceweasel still exists as a maintained package in libre distros Parabola GNU/Linux and ConnochaetOS: https://www.parabola.nu/packages/?q=Iceweasel Am 9. August 2017 03:08:08 MESZ schrieb David Hedlund <address@hidden>:On 2017-08-09 02:46, David Hedlund wrote:Ruben, what do you have to say about this? On 2017-08-09 02:44, David Hedlund wrote:Ruben, what do you have to say about this? On 2017-08-09 02:40, bill-auger wrote:On 08/08/2017 08:32 PM, David Hedlund wrote:Why?because the weasel is WAY cuter actually from what i understand, the original name of icecat was iceweasel, but then debian named their re-branded firefox asiceweaseland the original GNU iceweasel decided to rename to icecat to avoidanyconfusion - but now debian calls their default browser firefoxagain sothe weasel name with all it's legacy is floating in limbo they actually split off the iceweasel branding into a separatepackageso you can pretend that firefox-esr is still iceweasel - i justthinkmany people would welcome the return of the weasel proper -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org-- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org-- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org-- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org-- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
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