Firefox and Linux redux (and OpenBSD)
Part of the behind-the-scenes stuff that people don’t see is the coordination that goes on as part of our trademark approval process. Red Hat and Novell have been working closely with us for quite some time, but other distros have not been as involved. I was very fortunate to work with Alexander Sack of Ubuntu and Martynas Venckus of OpenBSD to get their distros in the same loop. The primary goals are to ensure that all versions of Firefox are of a very high quality and to reduce the overhead involved in shipping distro-specific packages. There will always be distro-specific links and tweaks, but minimal code differences means that testing is less segmented and more globally useful (and Mozilla maintainers can put their time into core work instead of hacking around upstream issues!).
Here’s a quick rundown on progress in the last few months:
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