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Why I never use it. I will always stick to Firefox. Firefox has yet to irritate me. A few plugins here or there is not as awful as most of what Google does.

Besides if I REALLY wanted to I could run one of the GPL forks of Firefox. They may be dated after a while but they work usually.

Edit: I meant to say GNU forks like IceWeasel and GNU IceCat which are licensed as GPL usually. There's other forks too.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat



Firefox isn't GPL?


Why would there be a Mozilla Public License if not to be used for Firefox?


I see. Are there any major differences in the two licences? I'm interested why the OP specifically mentioned GPL forks of Firefox.


It's GPL compatible, and I wrote GPL instead of GNU. There's IceWeasel which is a Debian fork of Firefox to debrand it from all the Firefox trademarks and logos.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat

They basically use scripts that build IceCat apparently from the original source code. I'm guessing they diff against FireFox.




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