Firefox Dilemma

[Jan Claeys]

On do, 2007-03-08 at 01:12 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> On 3/8/07, Derek Slovin <derek at slovin.us> wrote:
> 
> >>  good point, it was
> >> nonetheless judged that the familiarity Windows users have with
> >> Firefox, was of more value.
> >> Since this situation is unlikely to change anytime soon (since FF is
> >> getting increasingly popular on Windows)
> >
> > By that logic, why are we not pushing Thunderbird for email instead
> > of Evolution? Or Azerus for bittorrent? The list could go on...
> 
> Actually, I think the reason Evolution was chosen was because its
> designed to be a drop-in replacement for Outlook.

And I'm pretty sure Firefox has a larger "mail client" market share than
Thunderbird...  ;-)


> > This brings up the point, is Ubuntu here to create a great
> > operating system or is it here to switch over users from Windows?
> > IMHO, Ubuntu should include the best package for the job, not the
> > package people are most familiar with.
> 
> Fair enough, but I will argue its likely that a majority of Ubuntu
> users consider Firefox to be the best browser.

Because it actually *is* the best browser of the two, despite it lacking
some integration.

The problem with Epiphany is that it lacks _internal_ consistency,
having multiple user interfaces and configuration interfaces inside the
same program, which IMNSHO sucks more than having a different user
interface between different programs...


-- 
Jan Claeys