Mozilla commits to collaborating with Linux distros (Linux.com)

Linux.com reports that the Mozilla Foundation has agreed to make changes to its development and distribution processes that will accommodate the needs of Linux distributors. "The sheer number of changes made independently by the distros made merging patches upstream difficult, if not impossible, and led to secondary problems like debates over usage of the Mozilla trademark. Furthermore, the current Mozilla policy is to accept only security fixes for stable code branches. Since many distros must continue to support older Firefox releases shipping with their own long-term-support releases, even patches that provide major stability fixes would not propagate upstream."

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