Default bookmarks for Firefox and Chromium

[Micah Gersten]

I think we should stick with official and semi-official (ubuntuforums)
Ubuntu/Debian sites.
So, the Fridge might make a decent addition, since this is where Ubuntu
News goes.
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/

On 08/04/2010 10:50 AM, Frederik Nnaji wrote:
> Bookmarks in firefox should support pin/unpin.
> i also believe that more than 5 pre-pinned objects per default would be
> too much.
> The demo (affordance) of pin/unpin support should rather be of a design
> so obvious, that even one single example bookmark is sufficient to
> illustrate the purpose of bookmarks as a whole.
> 
> Apart from that, i see no reason why these or any other popular FOSS
> websites should not be featured here..
> 
> My new personal rule #1 for the presentation of content applies:
> Allow each participant to decide which objects deserve attention and
> hide the rest intelligently...
> 
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 17:33, Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc at gmail.com
> <mailto:humphreybc at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk
> 
>     On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Chris Coulson
>     <chrisccoulson at ubuntu.com <mailto:chrisccoulson at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         A few weeks ago, philinux from ubuntuforums approached me with a
>         suggestion that we should think about updating the default
>         bookmarks in
>         Firefox, and I suggested opening a bug report with some ideas
>         for new
>         defaults on. With hindsight in mind, a bug report probably isn't the
>         best venue for discussing these things, and there has only been a
>         handful of suggestions so far.
> 
>         Currently, we ship 4 extra bookmarks to the vanilla Firefox
>         profile (I'm
>         not sure whether we add any bookmarks to the default Chromium
>         profile
>         too, but we probably should do if we don't already). These are:
> 
>         http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
>         http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ (although the link for this one is currently
>         broken, but fixed in bzr)
>         https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
>         http://www.debian.org/
> 
>         Do people think these are a good set of defaults, and if not -
>         do they
>         have any ideas for other bookmarks they think should be there by
>         default
>         (or think that any shouldn't be there)? I'm open to suggestions,
>         although I'm reasonably happy with what we have currently.
> 
>         Regards
>         Chris
> 
> 
> 
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