Some people may be surprised to learn that I disagree with Noah on this one. I think following Debian's lead would be too disruptive in three ways:
1. Disruptive to end users, who wouldn't understand why their browser was renamed out from under them 2. Disruptive to Canonical, who would be forced to deal with the increased support costs arising from #1 3. Disruptive to Canonical's relationship with Mozilla, the importance of which should not be underestimated Furthermore, Mark Shuttleworth has already publicly stated that Canonical will continue shipping Mozilla-approved Firefox packages ( http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/79 ), so that narrows the options considerably. Given that a Mozilla-approved package will necessarily contain non-free components, and given that Canonical plans to continue shipping and officially supporting this package, that narrows it down to precisely one solution. Canonical already has a repository for supported non-free packages; it's called "restricted." -- Some components are non-free https://launchpad.net/bugs/83118 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
