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browse-url.el supports both Firefox *and* Mozilla? |
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Sat, 9 Jul 2022 08:59:25 -0700 |
Severity: minor
browse-url.el has both `browse-url-mozilla' and `browse-url-firefox'.
Is there even a web browser called "Mozilla" around these days that is
separate from "Mozilla Firefox"? If not, should `browse-url-mozilla' be
deprecated?
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Re: bug#56464: browse-url.el supports both Firefox *and* Mozilla? |
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Sun, 10 Jul 2022 04:09:38 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> On Jul 09 2022, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>
>> Is there even a web browser called "Mozilla" around these days that is
>> separate from "Mozilla Firefox"?
>
> Apparently mozilla was the name of Netscape browser after it was open
> sourced, before the Phoenix browser (now known as Firefox) was developed
> from it.
This seems correct, according to Wikipedia.[1] I also can't find any
package named "mozilla" in Debian, Redhat, Guix, Arch, etc.
So I've now obsoleted that support on master (commit 86dc875bf5).
Footnotes:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history
(and related pages)
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