Re: Web browsers, Adobe Flash & Debian

--- On Thu, 6/10/10, John Hasler <jhasler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Iceweasel is not merely a clone of Firefox.  It _is_
Firefox.  It's
called Iceweasel in Debian because Mozilla doesn't want
Debian to use
the trademarked Firefox name.

Thanks for that clarification. In doing some more reading... isn't Firefox the most important FOSS software out there? Even MS people that don't know Linux know Firefox, someone I read pointed this out. But maybe this is off topic?






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