kubuntu 14.04 wants to install firefox

[Scott Kitterman]

Marco Parillo <maparillo at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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No.  The primary reason to use Firefox is to leverage Ubuntu security support. Using a PPA is counter to that goal. 

Scott K