Package description is very out of date
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Alexander Sack |
Bug Description
"Firefox is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be lightweight and cross-platform.
This browser was previously known as Firebird and Phoenix."
This description is very out of date.
* Firefox is not "a redesign of the Mozilla browser component", it is a Web browser produced by Mozilla. This sentence was apparently written before 2003, back in the days when "Mozilla" meant "the Mozilla suite".
* Using Galeon or K-Meleon as examples to explain what Firefox is no longer makes sense, since (with all due respect to their developers and users) few people have ever heard of Galeon or K-Meleon, and of those who have, approximately zero of them won't already know what Firefox is too.
* "Written using the XUL interface language" is (at least in theory) an irrelevant implementation detail.
* "Lightweight" is accurate only in comparison with the Mozilla suite, which again, was relevant only before 2003.
Suggested replacement:
"Firefox is the famous Web browser from Mozilla, featuring support for Web feeds, a built-in popup blocker, and advanced tabbed browsing."
Changed in firefox: | |
assignee: | gnomefreak → asac |
this should probably be done before feisty. More suggestions are welcome on how to better phrase description