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Subject: Re: Deprecated browsers in browse-url.el
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> From: CHENG Gao <chenggao@cyberhut.org>
> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:15:10 +0800
> 
> I am wondering if some browsers should be removed from browse-url.el
> since they are ceased projects for many years. Such as Mosaic, Netscape,
> Mozilla, Galeon.

Why is it a problem that these are still supported?  What's the urge
to remove them?

> And reference to some browsers could be updated since
> they are superceded by other projects - Chimera by Camino and Arena by
> Amaya.

Patches are welcome.