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Under New Agreement, Debian™ to Include Firefox Suite

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday April 02 2016, @03:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the seems-very-one-sided dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

According to Softpedia:

Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI), publisher of Debian™ GNU/Linux and Debian™ GNU/kFreeBSD™ has reached an agreement in its longstanding trade dress dispute with the Mozilla Corporation, publisher of the Firefox application suite. Under the agreement, SPI will pay an undisclosed sum to the Mozilla Corp. and periodically turn over marketing data regarding SPI's customers. In exchange, SPI will receive a nonexclusive license to distribute the Firefox suite as part of SPI's Debian™ products.

SPI agreed not to alter the branding of the Firefox suite; not to disable its Pocket integration; not to alter the suite's anti-phishing or search features, which are sponsored by Mozilla Corp. partners; and to discontinue its competing Iceweasel Web suite, which is based on Mozilla Corp. software licensed under a previous accord. The Firefox suite will be provided to SPI's Debian™ customers as an automatic update via the firm's Dpkg℠ service. The updates will go out over the course of the next three months to groups of randomly selected customers, in order to provide what SPI calls "a superior upgrade experience."

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday April 02 2016, @09:12PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Saturday April 02 2016, @09:12PM (#326243) Homepage Journal

    I just switched from Chrome to iceweasel because Google dropped support for chrome. I'm not sure why they did this. Perhaps it got so bloated that a 32-bit address space wasn't enough any more?

    I tried switching to Midori but had a few problems with it.

    (1) I couldn't figure out how to transfer my bookmarks.

    (2) When I used it to look at my own filesystem (using file://) it did not alphabetise my directory listings. It took forever for me to find specific files there. I don't even care much about which alphabetical order they use.

    Now maybe there re easy fixes for these problems, but I couldn't find them. Nor could I find a user-support mailing list, where users could help each other and the solutions would stay around in archives.

    Otherwise, Midori seems a pleasant enough browser.

    I managed to get my bookmarks transferred to iceweasel.

    -- hendrik

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