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Posted by Ben C on 07/19/07 07:28
On 2007-07-18, Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:
> Animesh K wrote:
>> Errr, GNU just released Iceweasel. Ice isn't fire and weasel isn't a fox.
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>> What is causing a new open-source browser (there were already so many to
>> test, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6, IE7, Netscape)? Wasn't FF good enough?
>
> According to the link Ben C posted, it's nothing to get worked up about.
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> It's extremely unlikely Iceweasel will render differently than Firefox,
> Seamonkey, Netscape, or any of the other gecko-based browsers.
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> Same browser, different wrapping and +/- a few features. That's all.
Yes although one thing I'm not completely clear about-- do they
continuously integrate Mozilla sources for Gecko or is it a fork, i.e.
they took a snapshot and went their own way after that?
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