[Linux-aus] Firefox vs IceWeasel

[Daniel Tandowski]

gyaresu wrote:
> 
> Computers scare people.
> 
> It's not a browser. It IS Linux. It IS 'Free Software'. It IS 'The 
> Computer'. A huge number of people (particularly the ones uncorrupted by 
> ANY computer use) have no differentiation between a browser and an OS.
> E.g. My Grandmother is highly literate and an advanced researcher of 
> Genealogy but She still opens EVERYTHING in MS Word.
> 

This is painfully true, it can be extremely difficult to describe to
some people the concept of a 'Web Browser'.

> So we probably need a catchall name that incorporates EVERY secure 
> browser. A generic name that isn't associated with a Trademark or a Brand.
> 
> Not so much an Internet Explorer as an 'Secure Pipe' or 'Web Tunnel' 
> that could be Firefox or IceWeasle or whatever. As long as it was Free, 
> Open and secure.
> 
> "OK kids. Now open up a 'Secure Pipe' to http://example.com"

Following on from above, and really the whole issue at hand for this
entire thread is; creating new (unheard) names scares people.

"OK kids. Now open up a 'Web Browser' to http://example.com"