kubuntu 14.04 wants to install firefox

[Marco Parillo]

I agree, and still mostly rely on rekonq.
Will https://launchpad.net/~blue-shell/+archive/firefox-kde be recommended?


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Dale Trombley <buzzmandt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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