[gNewSense-users] Re: Browser (was: GNASH?)

[Dave Crossland]

On 04/11/06, Andreas K. Foerster <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Samstag, dem 04. Nov 2006 schrieb Dave Crossland:
>
> > >How about Epiphany?
> >
> > The value of Firefox/Iceweasel is the universe of extensions
> > available. Though I see
> >
> > "The Epiphany Extensions package is what you will need. Epiphany runs
> > all the same popular plugins that run in Mozilla."
> > - http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/
> >
> > http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/extensions suggests that only
> > those extensions listed work.
>
> Extensions and plugins are a different matter.
>
> "Plugins" are for what you can see in the webpages. They are to render
> specific file-formats, not directly supported by the browser software.
> Plugins can be shared between all Mozilla based browsers.
>
> "Extensions" are extensions to the browser, ie. what you can get from
> the browser-menus.

Ah yes, of course - thanks for clarifying that.

> They are specific to the several browsers.
>
> > I use GPL extentions not on the list, like customizegoogle.com. When I
> > get home I'll test this, unless anyone replies with the answer :-)
>
> That seems to be a browser specific entension.

Because IceWeasel is a fork of Firefox either functionally identical -
Debian Iceweasel - or functionally very similar - GNU Iceweasel - then
Firefox extensions work.

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Regards,
Dave