Let's go with Firefox by default

[Jackson Doak]

+1 firefox
I swap to chrome anyway, but firefox is the better of the two.


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com> wrote:

> +1 for Firefox.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
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> On 10 June 2013 22:47, Julien Lavergne <gilir at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was going to prepare a long thread with advantages / disadvantages
>> between Firefox and Chromium, but let's make it a bit short :-)
>>
>> If I am lazy, the logical choose is to keep Chromium, because Ubuntu
>> (Canonical) already decided to switch to it. So, much of the work from
>> Ubuntu will go to Chromium instead of Firefox. However, many arguments
>> is are favour of Firefox in our case :
>> - Good behaviour on old hardware : thanks to your tests, Firefox seems
>> to behave well on old hardware. I also saw it on my own testing
>> system. It's difficult to say if 1 is better than another one, but a 1
>> tab use of Firefox seems a bit better, and many users still use only 1
>> tab :-)
>> - PowerPC support : Firefox support is still limited, but Firefox
>> exists on powerpc. No need to advertise the fact that we have 2
>> different browsers.
>> - Even if Chromium is open source, it's still very close to Chrome and
>> Google. In a politic view, it's better to have a product managed by a
>> foundation (still, they have a lot of money from Google ...).
>> - Customization support : You can add bookmarks and other
>> customization to Firefox. Chromium doesn't have it (yet ?). There is
>> also (still ?) a module to install flash support.
>> - No "It's dead Jim" bug. It may be fixed in the future, but I'm not
>> sure it will be critical enough for Canonical to but a lot of effort
>> to fix it. It mostly affects us only, not Ubuntu.
>> - Quick update of new upstream versions (I hope it will be the same
>> without Canonical support).
>> - The next big UI update will be great ! (I know, it's not a real
>> argument :-))
>>
>> Still, Chromium has advantages :
>> - Canonical support (it's my main concern about the switch).
>> - Native webapp (I didn't find a way to launch webapp in Firefox).
>> - Many apps in the Marketplace (the Mozilla one is still young).
>>
>> I still think that the difference between the 2 are not so big, and I
>> would like to make easy to switch from one to another, so everyone
>> will be happy.
>>
>> If people have concern about this switch, it's time to speak :-) I
>> don't plan to come with this discuss again for 14.04 (except, if there
>> is a big problem using Firefox during 13.10).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Julien Lavergne
>>
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