<div dir="ltr">+1 Firefox </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">2013/6/11 Nio Wiklund <<a href="mailto:nio.wiklund@gmail.com" target="_blank">nio.wiklund@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">+1 for Firefox <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> 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 > -- Lubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>