Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-26 Thread Seeker
On 2/25/2016 12:39 PM, H Kyu wrote: ​Hello - Recently, Mozilla's Firefox browser introduced a few new features that got me to remove Firefox on my Windows PC altogether. The features were Hello, Camera Access (Android), and screen-sharing. Every single one of those features did not sit we

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-26 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 04:42:12 +0100 Jerome BENOIT wrote: >Hello Charlie: > >On 26/02/16 03:53, Charlie Kravetz wrote: >> if Iceweasel incorporates those Firefox features, I would have to also >> switch away from Debian. > > >Is it not an extreme

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-26 Thread Charlie Kravetz
to Debian, Pale Moon for Windows is neat. >> >> >> >> > From: H Kyu [mailto:henry.s@gmail.com] >> > Sent: 26 February, 2016 7:40 AM >> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; secur...@debian.org >> > Subject: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel >> >>

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-26 Thread Curt
On 2016-02-26, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 25 February 2016 20:39:59 H Kyu wrote: >> But if Iceweasel incorporates those Firefox features, I would have >> to also switch away from Debian. > > You are confusing Debian with Gnome. Debian is the distro. Gnome is the > Desktop environment. I b

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-25 Thread mudongliang
6 7:40 AM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; secur...@debian.org > > Subject: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel > > > > > ​Hello - > > > Recently, Mozilla's Firefox browser introduced a few new features that got > > me to remove Firefox on my Windows PC a

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:39:59 -0800 H Kyu wrote: > ​Hello - > > Recently, Mozilla's Firefox browser introduced a few new features > that got me to remove Firefox on my Windows PC altogether. The > features were Hello, Camera Access (Android), and screen-sharing. > Every single one of those featu

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/02/16 06:38 PM, arian wrote: Debian's Gnome uses Iceweasel much like Windows uses IE. I'm not really sure what you mean. It's Debians default browser in the way I think IE is currently Windows' default browser, but it's not used outside of being used as a browser. Many programs use som

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Charlie: On 26/02/16 03:53, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > if Iceweasel incorporates those Firefox features, I would have to also switch > away from Debian. Is it not an extreme attitude ? There are plenty of web browser around: https://wiki.debian.org/WebBrowsers Be aware that the list is

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-25 Thread Charlie Kravetz
an-user@lists.debian.org; secur...@debian.org >Subject: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel > > > >​Hello - > >Recently, Mozilla's Firefox browser introduced a few new features that got me >to remove Firefox on my Windows PC altogether. The features were Hello, >Camera A

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-25 Thread John Hasler
H Kyu writes: > Would Iceweasel also be incorporating those bothersome features in the > near future? If so, would it be possible to use Debian without > Iceweasel or any Mozilla product? GNOME does not require Iceweasel and Debian requires neither GNOME nor Iceweasel. There are many desktop envi

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
m=93&ie=UTF-8 Lisi > From: H Kyu [mailto:henry.s@gmail.com] > Sent: 26 February, 2016 7:40 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; secur...@debian.org > Subject: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel > > > > ​Hello - > > Recently, Mozilla's Firefox browser introduce

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 February 2016 20:39:59 H Kyu wrote: > But if Iceweasel incorporates those Firefox features, I would have > to also switch away from Debian. You are confusing Debian with Gnome. Debian is the distro. Gnome is the Desktop environment. I believe that Gnome uses Iceweasel by default

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, H Kyu wrote: > ​Hello - > > Recently, Mozilla's Firefox browser introduced a few new features > that got me to remove Firefox on my Windows PC altogether. The > features were Hello, Camera Access (Android), and screen-sharing. > Every single one of those features did not sit

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-25 Thread arian
> Debian's Gnome uses Iceweasel much like Windows uses IE. I'm not really sure what you mean. It's Debians default browser in the way I think IE is currently Windows' default browser, but it's not used outside of being used as a browser. Many programs use some flavor of webkit for the like of

Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-25 Thread H Kyu
​Hello - Recently, Mozilla's Firefox browser introduced a few new features that got me to remove Firefox on my Windows PC altogether. The features were Hello, Camera Access (Android), and screen-sharing. Every single one of those features did not sit well with me from a security perspective. On