For a while I ignored it largely because Firefox *does* work, but it’s been quite obvious for a while that Linux is an afterthought for them. Debian fixed up a lot of the more patently Windows-centric crap including the broken Extensions manager. Their reward?
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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Troll-droppings.
I use Epiphany, but I use it as a secondary testing browser. Firefox is my main development browser. I also have Conkeror and Konqueror installed.
But what do you use Epiphany for? To troll against Firefox? You say that "Linux is an after-thought" Firefox developers?
Did you mean GNU and Linux? Is GNU an afterthought for you?
Where's the proof of your benchmarks of FF3 Windows binary running faster than GNU/Linux native FF3?
Beyond that, since windows is an arguably incomplete operating system without all the hooks for monitoring and controlling processes, I wouldn't care if it ran a little faster on Wine.
Firefox doesn't need to be subject to Gnome's human interface guidelines. Gnome devs do a pretty fine job, but they don't have the final word on human interfacing and they're not the only desktop environment for GNU and Linux.
Epiphany is good, and innovations can be shared among various projects.
Also the EULA of FF3 pertains mostly to respecting the trademark, IIRC. The code is available under the GNU GPLv2, so what are you crying about, exactly? That Mozilla wants to protect their corporate reputation by not allowing modified versions of the code which is released by the Firefox project to be presented as Firefox when it is not?
That's why we have trademarks so that identity can be maintained. That's why we have ice-weasel, so you don't need to worry about one entity such as Debian making changes to Firefox and then having Mozilla devs say "hey, those changes don't represent us".
It's fine for Debian to be using IceWeasel instead. It's fine for Mozilla to be conservative in what they're willing to allow to be called "Firefox".