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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:19:51 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Cc:        Michael Widerkrantz <mc@hack.org>
Subject:   Re: freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 248, Issue 1
Message-ID:  <200807301119.51517.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <863alrmx7t.fsf@tim.hack.org>
References:  <20080728120008.0BBF710656C5@hub.freebsd.org> <20080729052101.GB1995@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx> <863alrmx7t.fsf@tim.hack.org>

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On Wednesday 30 July 2008 07:24:06 am Michael Widerkrantz wrote:
> Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> writes:
> 
> > If you want to brag about FreeBSD technology used in a mainstream
> > product, then by all means mention Firefox 3, because that is already
> > quite impressive.
> 
> Why Firefox? It's a user land application. I'm sure it's been ported
> to FreeBSD, but does that tell anyone that FreeBSD is good?

Firefox 3 uses the malloc from FreeBSD 7.x for its memory allocator even on 
Windows, OS X, and Linux.

-- 
John Baldwin



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