Let's go with Firefox by default

[Andre Rodovalho]

+1 Firefox


2013/6/11 Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com>

> +1 for Firefox
>
> On 2013-06-10 23:47, Julien Lavergne 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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