Epiphany vs. Firefox (Duck!)

[Fábio Mendes]

> Right ... I'm just surprised the consensus didn't follow in the other
> direction :) In most cases the Gnome (and Ubuntu for that matter) design
> follows: "Provide a simple and elegant solution that works for most
> people, and give those who need something more complex an easy way to
> get it." I would think this lends itself towards Epiphany as the default
> browser. I cannot think of a single feature the current Epiphany lacks
> that most would need (except for possibly wanting a hierarchal bookmark
> structure, which is being worked on actively and will most likely reach
> HEAD at some point).
> 
> > 
> > There is a long-term plan for Firefox to provide better GNOME integration,
> > and we intend to follow that work closely.
> 
> That will be awesome, but until then shouldn't Ubuntu provide what best
> integrates now?

Firefox uses gtk, xft, and can match the default icons, so is not so
alien anyway... I think a good pro-firefox argument is that it has both
a linux and a windows version. If we want to bring people from windows
to Ubuntu, and I guess it's an implicity distro goal, by judging on the
focus on being newbie-friendly, Firefox, Openoffice.org, Gimp and even
Gaim will play importat roles. So depending where you came from,
epiphany may integrates better or worst than firefox. If you're an
(potentially) ex-windows user interested in open source, the chances are
that you already use firefox, so it will be a familiar spot to start
with. The gnome stuff that won't integrate with firefox, Openoffice,
gimp, gaim and the alikes... :)

The same arguments that applies against firefox could be made against
openoffice. Gnome has an office suite which integrates better in the
desktop, but OO, in the average, is technically superior. Firefox is
also technically superior than epiphany (although the difference isn't
so big), so i think it makes a reasonable choice

-Fabio