Under the revised guidelines, in order to use the Firefox name, it would have been required to seek approval from the Mozilla Corporation for all security patches.įrom a practical standpoint, I have had to remove iceweasel and install firefox. In addition, Debian freezes its releases on a long term basis and later patches software in the frozen stable releases for newly-discovered security issues. Further messages from Mike Connor clarified Mozilla’s current policies: “Yes, if you are shipping a browser called Firefox, we should be signing off on every deviation from what we ship.” and “If you are going to use the Firefox name, you must also use the rest of the branding.”Īs Debian could not use the logo because its license did not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, it could thus not use the Firefox name under Mozilla’s revised guidelines. Connor confirmed that the Mozilla Corporation was revoking the previous agreement with Debian which allowed them to use the Firefox name. In February 2006, Mike Connor, representing the Mozilla Corporation, wrote to Debian and informed them that Mozilla did not consider the way in which Debian was using the Firefox name to be acceptable. I’m happy to note that FireFox has Īs far as I understand, it wasn’t so much due to patches to the Mozilla code, as it was that certain parts of Firefox (IE, the name and logo) did not fit into Debian’s free software guidelines, as they were subject to the above named strict branding policy and copyrights by Mozilla. I still mostly use FireFox, but under Linux, I use IceWeasel. – the entirely free version of FireFox (for a good, short explanation of why IceWeasel exists, go here). Stumbled on your blog while googling to find flame wars that browser zealots have caused for my amusement. Soon, I’m switching to Debian 4.0RC2, which I know Opera works great in. In my current OS (Windows XP) Opera gave me some javascript problems and some error about a file missing each time it tried to load any java applets. I like firefox, but it is a bit slower than Opera, not “loading the webpage” wise, but “loading the program” and “opening new tabs” wise. This is translated by (So you can use it in the future if you need to.) However, I had a very difficult customize my interface, the point that I left so I charcute in…” “Opera has when he surprised me with his speed, both to launch the browser when loading pages. Loosely translated, ’s comment translates to the following message I found Stefon’s blog useful in explaining this and the related background issues concerning both Mozilla and Debian in between them as Iceweasel is a fork of the current version of firefox (+ patches). All The Firefox » Blog Archive » Firefox v Iceweasel Says:.From my lay perspective it also seems a sensible outcome. I’d like to answer… but i only speak german and english *g* En revanche, j’ai eu bien du mal a personnaliser mon interface, a tel point que j’ai abandonne tellement j’avais charcute dans l… Opera quand a lui, m’a surpris par sa rapidite, aussi bien au lancement du navigateur que lors du chargement des pages. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Novemat 12:27 am and is filed under linux, Review, Technology. I think this is a good way to satisfy both sides. So debian started the iceweasel fork and just use this one. Both are reasonable ones for the organisations. This was not sufficiend for Debian’s stable rules and so they patched the 1.5 version themselves.īut this was not fine with the mozilla corporation which doesn’t allow a modified firefox version to be named firefox and containing the original logo. Like a bug in 1.5 is only resolved in 2.0. Debian has a need to patch firefox, because firefox bugs are only patched by mozilla in following higher versions. ![]() This means everybody can take it an modify it in any way (of course you have to contribute back your modifications). These rules assure that Debian will stay a truly free distribution. For a short description of the problem, read ahead.ĭebian is known for a strict compliance to it’s own rules. ![]() Now some people may ask, why a fork? Whats the problem with firefox? Here is a good lengthy explanation. So don’t be afraid if your linux distribution wants to remove your beloved firefox. ![]() Because iceweasel is “just” a fork of the current version of firefox (plus some patches). is it better than firefox, internet explorer, opera, konqueror, … ? So now Firefox 2.0 is finished and I’m talking about a brand new web browser iceweasel? And.
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