Comment 159 for bug 269656

Looking at the Mozilla Firefox EULA, there are a lot of points I cannot completely understand as a user without any legal background. One point in particular strikes me as odd and possible very offensive.

> 6. EXPORT CONTROLS. This license is subject to all applicable export restrictions.
> You must comply with all export and import laws and restrictions and regulations
> of any United States or foreign agency or authority relating to the Product and its use.

Does this mean I am suddenly subject to US laws? I've never even been near the country. Regardless of the answer to this, a common user will be confused and intimidated by this legalese.

As a user:
* I cannot agree to a EULA when I do not understand its contents.
* I should not be expected to read through pages of legal text.
* I should never be asked to agree to (in most jurisdictions legally void) legal texts by my computer in a default install.

A number of people above have stated that IceWeasel can be a fully compatible replacement for Firefox. I would, however, suggest looking into the user agent string issue, although I suspect that websites that depend of the "Firefox" bit in the string are extremely rare.

+1 IceWeasel
+1 Firefox should no longer reside in main

I hope Mozilla is willing to reconsider their position. Good luck to the Ubuntu and Canonical people involved in resolving this issue. I am confident common sense will prevail in the end.