Updated Mozilla Firefox Roadmap

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Christopher Aillon schrieb:

> On 07/13/2004 04:15 PM, Matias Feliciano wrote:
>
>> Le mar 13/07/2004 à 20:08, Christopher Aillon a écrit :
>>
>>> On 07/13/2004 01:53 PM, Matias Feliciano wrote:
>>>
>>>> The roadmap targets 1.0 release for September 14th (one week before
>>>> FC3T3) :
>>>> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html
>>>>
>>>> FC3 for October 18th
>>>>
>>>> Since Evolution is the default mail client, perhaps it's time to push
>>>> FireFox in Fedora Core and set it as default browser.
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't see what Evolution has to do with Firefox (nit, the F in Fox 
>>> is not capitalized).
>>>
>>
>>
>> Evolution is the default mail client, we don't need the email capability
>> of the default browser (Mozilla). Firefox seems fine.
>
>
> Ah.  That logic wasn't initially clear to me.  But on the flipside, 
> you don't need Firefox to do that.  It is possible to have a Mozilla 
> without the mail portion.  Try "rpm -e mozilla-mail" for example, or 
> --disable-mailnews if building from source, which we could easily add 
> to the specfiles.
>
>
>>>> Or it's better to wait FireFox 1.0 _and_ Thunderbird 1.0.
>>>
>>>
>>> How so?  That mindset sort of implies an application suite.  Which 
>>> is precisely what Firefox and Thunderbird are striving to get away 
>>> from.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Many FC2 users use Mozilla as a mail client. Because html :-) cross
>> platform (Windows).
>>
>> We can't "replace" Mozilla by Firefox only.
>
>
> Right.  In order to replace Mozilla, you need a browser, a mail 
> client, an irc client, etc.  But you're forgetting that we already 
> ship the other pieces.  If we throw in Firefox, you have your browser, 
> we ship a mail client already (Evolution), we have X-Chat and GAIM for 
> IRC.  The other bits included in Mozilla (for example DOM Inspector) 
> are available as Firefox extensions.  So you have your replacements 
> there.
>
> I'll also note that the Firefox roadmap is just a guideline, and is 
> not set in stone.  It is conceivable -- quite likely even -- that the 
> Firefox release will slip past Sep 14.  How far past, I don't know, 
> but hopefully not too far.  The release date for a mozilla.org project 
> is always "when it's ready.  which will hopefully be what the roadmap 
> says".  Unfortunately, past history has shown that the roadmap release 
> date is seldom achieved.
>
> Oh and by the way, I _do_ want to see Firefox as the default browser, 
> in case that was not obvious.  ;-)
>
> Cheers.
>
>
There is no reason to replace mozilla some people preffer it some not.
Just add Firefox and make it selectable in preffered applications.