8.10 possibly not to use firefox in next release?

[karellen]

Well if you read the article, it says that the only license that you must accept is their trademark agreement. Basically saying that the name FireFox belongs to the respective owners and that the firefox logo belongs to its respective owners.

It's still 100% free, but FireFox is just trying to make sure that after all of the users that use Firefox, it still belongs to the actual creators.

and...what's wrong with trademarks? you know, the same goes for Ubuntu (name and logo belong to Canonical). should we stop using Ubuntu because of this?

[S.A.A]

Hey guys, Please say you are joking, i'm freaked out..

[miggols99]

If FireFox goes to QT there'll be absolutely NO WAY I'll ever use it then ... if that happens, it looks like I'll have to get rather cozy with a different browser.


If you can't tell, I have a rather dislike for kde ... I'm a 100% gnome fan. If firefox goes QT, it won't be a very nice thing for me to hear about.

You've got it all wrong. They're working on a Qt version of Firefox, and it will be available for the KDE users. But the Gtk+ version will still be there.

[karellen]

I would be delighted if Firefox went to Qt. It's about time Ubuntu actually packaged a browser that fits its release cycle, integrates with GNOME and runs without hanging the entire environment. (Oh, and while we're at it, it would be nice if said browser cared more about its Linux audience than its Windows audience, which is not the case with Firefox because Windows has the bigger share of users).

I second this. as a KDE user, Firefox going Qt is good news for me

[Twitch6000]

Well after reading the whole page it seems they are doing it for trademark reasons.
It will still be free and open source from what I read anyways.

If it is still free and opensource then I really don't mind.

If that changes though,then I am switching to flock or opera lol.

[Half-Left]

Actually I don't think Ubuntu will use Firefox in a future release. Mainly because I think Firefox is going to use Qt by default in future, from what I've read that is anyway

Where did you get that information from, Qt ports have gone one after another, there's nothing to suggest otherwise.

[TwiceOver]

Whatever makes Flash work properly.

[clanky]

If Chrome for Linux is as good as the windows version promises to be then I will be using that.

[klange]

I don't see the problem here. It's Mozilla's way of protecting the Firefox name.

(And the QT port is just an extra addition to the set of available interfaces for Firefox, they're not permanently switching to QT, not after the work that was done to properly port Firefox to everything else; the QT port is just a bonus for KDE users)

[S.A.A]

Firefox will remain on the top of Internet browsers, no matter what is happening