From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Packaging a free Firefox Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 13:28:56 +0200 Message-ID: <878t8i34hz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y3h1g42q.fsf@lassieur.org> <877eolw9w7.fsf@gmail.com> <87efisr56r.fsf@gnu.org> <20180504142411.zwrfn4ggwcq5gkkp@thebird.nl> <20180515071051.2endozyv36a5xwdz@thebird.nl> <87d0xxjny4.fsf@gnu.org> <874lj86fmn.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40493) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJH5n-0002uf-OJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 07:29:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJH5n-0002l7-1V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 07:29:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874lj86fmn.fsf@gnu.org> (Mike Gerwitz's message of "Tue, 15 May 2018 12:35:44 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mike Gerwitz Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur Hello Mike, Mike Gerwitz skribis: > 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 Rub=C3=A9n is working on an ESR upgrade, so maybe users' experien= ces > will be a bit better soon. Oh OK, thanks for explaining, I wasn=E2=80=99t aware of that. Ludo=E2=80=99.