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Re: firefox 1.5 evaluation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Dec 28 15:09:32 2005
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
From: amu@alum.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:09:26 -0500
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Basch's message of "Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:42:53 -0500")
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I have comments on a couple of the technical points.
Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU> writes:
> The "Download Actions" preferences screen is improved; when browsing
> for an application, it no longer seems to resolve symlinks. However,
> the browser also does not allow the application path to be typed in,
> so there is no good way to enter a path containing "@sys".
AFAICT, it uses the standard Gtk+ file selector, in which ^L allows
for direct path entry.
> (One more issue I noticed in testing -- when you build this
> version from source, its visible "brand" name is "Deer Park",
> not "Firefox"; apparently mozilla is reserving the Firefox
> brand for its own builds. So we would presumably have to
> decide on our own name, e.g. "Athena Firefox").
It is possible to tune this; Debian has patches to that effect.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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