Google makes Mozilla licence U-turn

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Anonymous Coward

All good friends #

Posted Friday 29th August 2008 14:52 GMT

I don't know. With Mozilla's recent browser changes (Firefox 3), maybe the removal of the user interface option to disable searching from the URL bar was the hug big-G needed?

Visit about:config and change "keyword.enabled" to false.

DZ-Jay

Re: All good friends #

Posted Friday 29th August 2008 15:37 GMT

A.C.,

I agree. And, by the way, thanks for the about:config tip!

-dZ.

Alan Donaly

I don't know about obscure functions #

Posted Saturday 30th August 2008 00:08 GMT

of FF3. I do know what most people do when they hear that Google was trying to dictate to projects which license they could use was a predictable "fook that I'll go to Sourceforge" it might be a while before that damage is undone.

Anonymous Coward

about:config #

Posted Saturday 30th August 2008 16:03 GMT

Thanks too AC - and I notice that the URL is also configurable, so you can point it to M$ Live Search if you want...!

Andrew Crystall

@AC #

Posted Sunday 31st August 2008 13:47 GMT

Great. Let me know when they make it baseline and I'll start using Firefox 3.

Anonymous Coward

Ice Weasel - Bon Echo #

Posted Sunday 31st August 2008 18:04 GMT

I don't know, Firefox needs to protect their brand sure, but they need to do it in a way that allows the distros to operate.

Firefox is really only installed by Windows, Mac and Gentoo peeps, the rest have to make do with Ali Quick Change, unless they download directly from Mozilla.

They need to tweak the license a bit, it was actually Mozilla that got a lot of opensource ire, it wouldn't surprise me if the person behind the original move to not host Mozilla license code was not in fact someone who was involved in opensource.

If Mozilla wants to count the downloads which I suspect is one of the motivations then a callback would probably be accepted.

If they want to ensure that things like the debian openssh debacle doesn't occur, well they could make that explicit as well, only source code from Mozilla is acceptable as being firefox, as it stands at the mo the only binary that is accpetable as being firefox is the one from Mozilla.

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