Google Chromium In Lucid

[Shane Fagan]

> I do agree that it would be pretty rash to jump on this for Lucid+1,
> unless something amazing happens, because Chromium is really very new.
> Development on Lucid+2 would begin a bit after ChromeOS's official
> appearance in the real world. At that point Chromium would be thoroughly
> tested and debugged. We could confidently expect Google's ongoing
> commitment to the browser's Linux version, in particular, as a stable
> product.
> 
> I think it would be worthwhile if there was a commitment to properly
> discuss the default browser choice awhile planning Lucid+2, or something
> along those lines. It could act as strong incentive for Mozilla to do
> better where Firefox currently loses to Chromium in Linux. With that,
> the geniuses at Mozilla could pull a rabbit out of a hat, returning
> their browser to its rightful place in my heart :)

I disagree because gnome 3 is coming in lucid+1 (probably) I think the
opportune time would be then. We should redesign in one swoop and I
think because Chrome OS is coming I think the browser will have a lot of
eyes on the code. So development would be swift and bug fixes will come
with that. The release after an LTS should be a major feature release
because lots of new stable releases are being brought in anyway so why
not go all out and include some innovation. 
I think Firefox is awesome but Chrome uses better technology (webkit is
far better than gecko) and it has not one major company looking at it,
it has hundreds from google, apple, acer, dell..etc. So testing and
innovation wont be a problem. 
Id like to revisit this conversation when Google releases a stable
release of chrome on the platforms ubuntu supports.
 
There is no point asking for it in this release of ubuntu its not ready,
there is no point talking about it until the next UDS. Ill gladly
support its inclusion then.

Regards
Shane Fagan