Ship epiphany, make it the "default" browser?

[Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)]

Scott Balneaves wrote:
> After a few weeks of testing, I'd like to make a, err... Possibly controversial
> suggestion. :)
> 
> Certainly not for Lucid, but say, for 12.04, it might be interesting to switch
> to Epiphany for Edubuntu's "Default" web browser.  Here's why:
> 
> 1) It's based on WebKit, which, with my initial testing, works MUCH better on
> thin clients, with much less X server ram usage.
> 2) It integrates very well into Gnome, being the default Gnome browser.
> 3) (A biggie) it speaks gconf, and you can do lockdown on it in Pessulus and
> Sabayon.
> 4) With my newfound idears gained from playing with evoldap, getting som gconf
> setting via an LDAP backend shouldn't be too hard.
> 
> Not saying we should.  Just saying it might be worth... examining, post lucid.

I like the idea of Chromium more for a distant feature release, both 
Chromium and Epiphany should be better than Firefox on thin clients (and 
  I think netbooks as well). Chromium is starting to get some nice 
plugins as well. I guess it's too early to think about it anyway, but I 
quite like chromium :)

-Jonathan