Hi all,

Since you guys are probably aware, the Mozilla browser project is now ended and so Firefox will be the only maintained browser.

That said, it appears to me that many of the plug-ins, etc are shared throughout the Mozilla browser and firefox.

I don't use the mozilla broswer, just firefox, altho I'm thinking of switching to opera to be honest after I run a few more days on the beta version of it.

But I think? not sure that removing the mozilla may remove stuff I need for firefox.

Do you think it's ok to uninstall mozilla?

If you follow the Slackware changelog, you'll see that there is an update to the latest release of Mozilla available for installation.
After that, I suspect SeaMonkey (now in "testing") will replace Mozilla and will be available alongside FF/TB. So you wait until then and everything will be OK.
If you remove Mozilla now, you should expect certain applications to fail that rely on the mozilla-nss library. For instance, Gaim will complain that it is no longer able to setup encrypted (SSL) connections.
There are pointers in LQ on how to remove Mozilla and then configure your system so that the Firefox nss libraties are used instead.

Eric

thank you bob.

ok I'll leave it in and play it safe thank you.

Just keep it. The 32 megabytes(give or take) you save by removing it is not worth the trouble it may cause. If mozilla where a few hundred megabytes, then it would be different, but it's relatively small and chances are if freeing up 32 megs of space makes a difference, you need a new hard drive anyway.


Many plugins compile against mozilla, which is still using gecko 1.7, which means that when you remove mozilla some poorly designed plugins built against the libraries in mozilla 1.7 may not work anymore.

Yea, You'll want to keep it for nss and nspr libs. I build nss/nspr into a seperate package and then link firefox and thunderbird against that. This way, you have no need for Mozilla unless you actually use it. It would be nice to see Pat start using nss-3.x... I'm sure he will now that Mozilla is gone. That or he'll start using the libs from firefox. I assume the pre-built Firefox from mozilla.org/Slackware.com comes with nss/nspr? If not, he's going to have to start building it from source...

It probably would be better to have those libs as separate packages imo. Why on earth Gaim devs compiled against a web browser is beyond me.

Well, the real question is, why do OS devs force gaim to be linked against a web browser. I've never agreed with it either. That's why I use the stand alone nss-3.11 tarball for my nss/nspr libs. Then you have a small self-contained package of libs that sit in /usr/lib that programs can link against if they need it.

thank you guys for replying I really appreciate. OK i will definitely keep the mozilla in there then.