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bug#56464: browse-url.el supports both Firefox *and* Mozilla?


From: Stefan Kangas
Subject: bug#56464: browse-url.el supports both Firefox *and* Mozilla?
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 04:09:38 -0700
User-agent: 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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