kubuntu 14.04 wants to install firefox

Dale Trombley buzzmandt at gmail.com
Fri Dec 6 21:39:56 UTC 2013


Thank you.
Sad though, I had high hopes for reqonk
On Dec 6, 2013 5:16 AM, "Jonathan Riddell" <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 08:53:07PM -0500, Dale Trombley wrote:
> >    I have been using 14.04 kubuntu development version since it was
> ready for
> >    testers. Even though I really liked firefox at one time I really don't
> >    like it anymore and don't use it. I have never install firefox on this
> >    setup and still have the Mozilla Firefox Browser Installer icon in
> >    menu>applications>internet.
> >    Not sure what has changed but suddenly doing a dist-upgrade wants to
> >    install firefox. I don't want it unless it's a change the developers
> have
> >    done to default to firefox.  If the developers have made this change I
> >    will let it install and use it for testing.
> >    Otherwise, how is the best way to dig into what is suddenly wanting to
> >    install firefox?
>
> It was decided that because there was no sight of fixes coming for the
> various significant problems that rekonq has to change to Firefox.  I
> find this very sad as I always wanted Kubuntu to show the best of KDE
> but currently KDE has no viable native web browser option so it's been
> changed to the only web browser with security support in the archive.
>
> Jonathan
>
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