well, if mozilla _corporation_ is having problems with debian using firefox, why not just remove it? or at least move it into non-free - from what i've read here firefox licence cannot be thought as gpl compatibile.
btw, is that ok for mozilla _corporation_ that mandriva is using heavily patched firefox and calling it so? i seriously doubt you folks have reviewed and approved all the patches they have included. and a happy guy from mozilla _corporation_ only mentioned novell and redhat.
listen, Debian, the biggest linux (and not only!) distribution all over, most mature one, known from its stability and so on is making you a great favour that's including mozilla corporation _product_. a great marketing for free.
oh and while we're on it - there are a lot of unofficial rpm's for redhat,suse,mandriva (to name a few) with hand made firefox releases. patched by someone in home, as she thought it would be good, build and released to hte community. and they are _very_ popular, mostly because official distribution version is fairly behind releases. are you going now to chase all of them to stop using firefox name? good luck.
final word: you should be ashamed guys, more maidenly maybe. oh, and stop telling that marketing crap about quality control - if you really want it, start some research for vanilla firefox stability with large number of opened tabs versus patched one. i'm definitely taking a patched version. and instead of spending a lot of time and money on your facist requriments, please rather spend it on making your code better. and if you cannot - help those who can. that's a much more better way of using resources. and everybody makes a profit out of it.
but maybe that's not what you want?
cheers,
former firefox-patched user
