Jim Cornette wrote:
I used the installer version of mozilla before Red Hat adopted mozilla
over netscape version 4.x. It was only available via the installer at
that time. It seems strange that now mozilla is being removed from the
next fedora version, seamonkey (mozilla continued) is going to fedora
extras and firefox and thunderbird are now adopted by Red Hat.
Fedora Core avoids including many programs that have similar
functionality. In general the preference is to just ship the defaults.
Firefox has been the default browser in Fedora.
The mozilla suite has been included in Fedora Core because many
applications such Yelp which need a HTML rendering engine were build
against this. Now that they have all been built against Firefox,
seamonkey was reviewed and included in Fedora Extras which obsoletes the
Fedora Core mozilla suite. The long term plan is to use XULRunner instead.
http://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:Xul_Runner
Seamonkey is still maintained by Red Hat in Fedora Extras and is also
included in recent versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux updates.
Rahul
