bug#56464: closed (browse-url.el supports both Firefox *and* Mozilla?)

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> browse-url.el supports both Firefox *and* Mozilla?
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> Sat, 9 Jul 2022 08:59:25 -0700
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> Severity: minor
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> browse-url.el has both `browse-url-mozilla' and `browse-url-firefox'.
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> Is there even a web browser called "Mozilla" around these days that is
> separate from "Mozilla Firefox"?  If not, should `browse-url-mozilla' be
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)
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> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
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> > On Jul 09 2022, Stefan Kangas wrote:
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> >> Is there even a web browser called "Mozilla" around these days that is
> >> separate from "Mozilla Firefox"?
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> > Apparently mozilla was the name of Netscape browser after it was open
> > sourced, before the Phoenix browser (now known as Firefox) was developed
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> This seems correct, according to Wikipedia.[1]  I also can't find any
> package named "mozilla" in Debian, Redhat, Guix, Arch, etc.
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> So I've now obsoleted that support on master (commit 86dc875bf5).
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> [1]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history
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