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[Clay Weber]

On Wednesday 07 November 2007 6:00:33 pm Ted Frater wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> >Scott wrote:
> >>Donn wrote:
> >>>>Firefox is not the standard on Kubuntu, only Ubuntu.  Konqueror is the
> >>>>standard web browser for Kubuntu.
> >>>
> >>>Oops. Sorry to steer the OP wrong. I've been on Dapper for ages and I
> >>>forget all the stuff it came/didn't come with.
> >>
> >>I would not worry about it, Firefox should be the default :)
> >
> >Should Not! :-)  (Can you tell I don't like Firefox?)
>
> Ok I can accept that
>  buy why?
>  And what do you like? as a browser?
>  Just interested.
>  I currently use opera 9
> Its somewhat faster than firfox on this eldrly Thinkpad.
>  Also its simpler to use..
>  Tho not as simple as Netscape 3,

Kubuntu is a KDE-specific distro, and they use only KDE/QT applications, while 
Firefox is GTK- based.

This is basically a design decision that is (thankfully) easily changed by the 
user.

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