Re: Packaging a free Firefox

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Mike,

Mike Gerwitz <address@hidden> skribis:

> IceCat is based on an old ESR; FF has undergone many substantial changes
> (and rewrites of parts of the system) since then; it's much more
> performant and I've found it to be much more stable over the years.
> (I use IceCat at home and FF at work.)
>
> So when users compare IceCat to "Firefox", they're not likely
> performing a valid comparison, since they're going to use a modern
> version of Firefox.
>
> I think Rubén is working on an ESR upgrade, so maybe users' experiences
> will be a bit better soon.

Oh OK, thanks for explaining, I wasn’t aware of that.

Ludo’.