Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #269656
  2. Comment #210

Comment 210 for bug 269656

Revision history for this message
Wiktor Wandachowicz (siryes) wrote :

When installing Firefox on Windows only the Administrator sees the EULA, before Firefox installation starts (as most of Windows programs do). Other users running on their own accounts never see the EULA. Official builds from Mozilla site "Firefox Setup 3.0.1.exe" (or even "firefox-3.0.1.tar.bz2" for that matter) do not display EULA screen for a regular user as well. Why then should Ubuntu's Firefox do that? It's unfair.

Personally I would prefer all EULA's to be accepted either at package's installation time (like for example "sun-java5-*" and "sun-java6-*" do) or at the beginning of Ubuntu installation. Definitely not at the first run, unless all official Firefox versions do this as well. Either ALL versions do the same - INCLUDING Ubuntu - or another approach should be found.

I am not against Mozilla EULA, far from it. They have the most right to include it, and they really should keep doing it. However, why inconvenience the Ubuntu users exclusively? Please treat all users of different platforms the same way.