Epiphany vs. Firefox (Duck!)

[Shimon]

sorry i will not be allowed to type on the internet with out
spellbound ask anyone in the irc channel


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:52:02 +0100, Danilo Šegan <danilo at kvota.net> wrote:
> Today at 17:24, Shimon wrote:
> 
> > spellbound!
> > forcastfox!
> > net usage item!
> > bbcode!
> > translate!
> 
> Sorry, you seem to be aiming for the flame fest, but I don't want to
> get involved in it.  Other ubuntu-devel readers have probably gone
> through this once (twice, thrice,...?) already, don't make them go
> through it again.
> 
> In your other mails, you mention Mozilla getting more bugfixes because
> of Windows.  Those bugfixes will benefit Epiphany as well, since
> Epiphany embeds Gecko (this is what makes me believe you're mostly
> ignorant of the issues, and are just flaming your ass off).  As for UI
> itself, Epiphany is bound to have less UI bugs since it's so much
> simpler.  Firefox, OTOH, should be considered to have a big mass of UI
> bugs due to bad integration with Gnome (hint: instant apply of
> configuration settings, doubled proxy settings, help system, button
> order, complexity, localisation...).
> 
> Number of rarely used extensions is simply not relevant (just tell me
> what percentage of Windows users are using IE unmodified, even though
> it's total crap as compared to Epiphany 1.0, not to mention later
> releases; actually, don't tell me, I don't care).  Those most useful
> and interesting will show up as Epiphany extensions as well, and they
> won't look like from another world at that.
> 
> Anyway, stepping out of this discussion.
> 
> Cheers,
> Danilo
> 


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>From the desk of shimon.