On 17/09/10 23:14, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 00:21, Scott Ferguson > <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> <snip> >> (Going from memory here - so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.) >> >> Once apon a time there was Netscape suite - which became Mozilla suite > In spirit only. Netscape 5 would have been a continuation of 4's code base, > but they tossed it out and wrote Gecko from scratch. The browser built on > Gecko was called Mozilla (which had been the Netscape code name since > forever), later it was called Mozilla Suite to distinguish it from other > Mozilla > browsers.
*nod. Thank you. >> (a pyrrhic victory!).... > What? Rebirth from the ashes - Phoenix had complications so Firefox was chosen to symbolise the victorious rebirth of, um, - the spirit/ghost of Netscape(?). Supposedly the revenge of Netscape on fnord Microsoft. (anecdote) >> which became Seamonkey - due to restrictions >> placed on it by the Mozilla Corporation, Debian produced the Iceape >> version. >> That's a little of the history. >> >> Differences:- logos, icons, names etc - plus Iceape is slightly more >> configurable (user-agent etc.) and security patches to older versions >> are unaffected by Mozilla freezes. >> Functionality:- slightly more with Iceape - but I haven't noticed any >> difference in performance. > Although the current version of SeaMonkey has more features than > the old version that is Iceape > > Cheers, > Kelly Clowers > > I must be missing something there Kelly, I confess to very little use of either (mostly Iceape), but a quick check shows that we deploy both Iceape and Seamonkey (which implies a great deal of similarity), and both are the same version number (2.0.8 currently). What features does SeaMonkey have that Iceape doesn't? I can't find a feature list for Iceape - but then I can't see anything on http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/features that Iceape doesn't do... and I've seen nothing in the Iceape lists to indicate that the reasons for the split have vanished (backporting of security patches, etc). On a slightly (more) off-topic question - does any one know how fnord Ubuntu gets around the Mozilla Corp. restrictions with Firefox? Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c9373fb.5060...@gmail.com
