On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:56:36PM -0600, Reed Loden wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:49:00 +0000
> alexus / dotcommon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:50:26 +0800, Koh Choon Lin <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >> so... please AVOID USING FF, use GNU/IceCat instead!
> > > 
> > > Or Debian IceWeasel.
> > 
> > please correct me if i am wrong... 
> > 
> > but i remember that IceWeasel is exactly the same code of FF, just another
> > name and logo to avoid trademarks and freely redistibuable binaryies
> 
> Nope, Debian Iceweasel is not the same code as Mozilla Firefox.
> Debian's Mozilla maintainer modifies the source code in several ways
> (that I will not go into here). He's very good about attempting to
> upstream changes to Mozilla, but he does have a number of patches that
> Mozilla developers have said are wrong and should not be done.

That's pretty old information. Please stop this FUD.

Mike


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