From: Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
Subject: Re: Packaging a free Firefox
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 12:35:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lj86fmn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0xxjny4.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Tue, 15 May 2018 10:57:39 +0200")
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On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:57:39 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Pjotr,
>
> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
[...]
>> I think I'll go to FF again if this persists.
>
> IceCat is essentially the same code as FireFox modulo branding, add-ons,
> and a few trivial things. I don’t see how IceCat itself could be
> blamed—the add-ons maybe, the way it is packaged in Guix perhaps, but
> IceCat?…
IceCat is based on an old ESR; FF has undergone many substantial changes
(and rewrites of parts of the system) since then; it's much more
performant and I've found it to be much more stable over the years.
(I use IceCat at home and FF at work.)
So when users compare IceCat to "Firefox", they're not likely
performing a valid comparison, since they're going to use a modern
version of Firefox.
I think Rubén is working on an ESR upgrade, so maybe users' experiences
will be a bit better soon.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-15 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-02 21:06 Packaging a free Firefox Clément Lassieur
2018-05-02 21:10 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-05-03 5:00 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-03 5:06 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-03 5:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-03 14:29 ` next browser (was: Packaging a free Firefox) Jack Hill
2018-05-03 14:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-03 20:23 ` Jack Hill
2018-05-04 3:36 ` Andy Patterson
2018-05-09 16:45 ` Pierre Neidhardt
[not found] ` <20180510020041.1e8b3956@uwaterloo.ca>
[not found] ` <87d0y3hije.fsf@gmail.com>
2018-05-10 14:04 ` ajpatter
2018-05-10 14:36 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-11 5:00 ` Andy Patterson
2018-05-19 19:26 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-24 9:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-24 14:18 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-24 15:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-24 16:44 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-24 20:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
[not found] ` <87bmdnhhu8.fsf@gmail.com>
2018-05-10 14:04 ` ajpatter
2018-05-03 6:06 ` Packaging a free Firefox Chris Marusich
2018-05-03 9:53 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-03 10:56 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-05-11 14:54 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-03 17:59 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-04 14:24 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-04 16:07 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-04 16:27 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-05 12:26 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-15 7:10 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-15 8:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-15 10:13 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-05-16 17:27 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-15 16:35 ` Mike Gerwitz [this message]
2018-05-17 11:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-03 19:07 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-03 20:45 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-05-12 13:28 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-05-05 22:06 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-06 1:24 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-06 6:01 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-06 13:58 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-06 16:35 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-05-06 9:48 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-05-06 12:53 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-16 15:44 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2018-05-16 16:10 ` Tonton
2018-05-16 17:56 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2018-05-17 11:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-17 13:47 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-17 15:10 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-05-17 15:29 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-17 17:57 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-05-18 4:14 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-21 4:58 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-21 20:07 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-22 4:18 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-22 19:05 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-07-31 1:51 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-08-01 0:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-21 20:09 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-22 3:55 ` Alex Vong
2018-05-18 5:19 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-18 4:25 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-16 19:07 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-05-16 19:54 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-05-16 20:50 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2018-05-17 1:26 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-17 8:21 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-05-17 11:36 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2018-05-06 14:05 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-06 15:32 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-06 16:33 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-05-07 0:36 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-07 6:42 ` jah
2018-05-07 16:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-08 8:36 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-08 0:06 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-08 0:20 ` Mark H Weaver
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