[desktop-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Is Mozilla still available in Nevada (snv_53+)?

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Tue Jan 2 18:19:59 PST 2007


James Andrewartha wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Nope - Mozilla was removed around snv_45 or so once Firefox &
>> Thunderbird had replaced it.   Since the Mozilla community has
>> stopped working on it, Sun is following the community's lead.
> 
> Not entirely correct - the Mozilla Foundation (now Corporation) decided to
> stop working on the Mozilla suite, however the community picked it up and
> it's now released as SeaMonkey. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Right - I knew that (and have in fact advocated internally we replace
Mozilla 1.7 with SeaMonkey 1.0 for our Solaris 10 deliveries of Mozilla),
but worded my response badly.   In any case, spending Sun resources on two
browsers for the same OS is not something management feels is a worthwhile
use of time.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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