On 1/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sander van Loon</b> <<a href="mailto:svloon@xs4all.nl">svloon@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:
<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">But what I still don't know is why the Ubuntu devs don't intend or don't
<br>want to replace Firefox with Epiphany by default. Could you please<br>explain the reasons to me?<br></blockquote></div>
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My
first reaction to this question was "you're kidding, not again". But
after reading the entire thread, I see that'a a matter that should be
taken seriously.<br>
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I believe that Firefox is better than Epiphany. It's a matter of
perspective. From the perspective of Gnome, Epiphany would be the clear
choice. But Ubuntu is not Gnome; it's a independent distribution, and
as such it has to make choices. In fact, it's the choices that actually
make up a large part of what the distribution is perceived to be.
Ubuntu got to be broadly accepted by a lot of things, and the choices
it made (Firefox included) are a large part of that.<br>
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If you look at the broad scene, Firefox wins. It's a household name;
has a active community of users; has corporate acceptance on a lot of
companies. It has a good, proven design. It has a great community, lots
of add ons. It offers good performance. It's taken seriously by the
mainstream press. Heck, it's taken seriously by Microsoft itself -- and
I say this as a compliment. One may disagree with one or other
argument, but in general, they all stand up to examination.<br>
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All these arguments may sound like marketing fluff. But it isn't. It's
important to understand why. Ubuntu is making choices on behalf of its
users. Do not take me wrong, but Epiphany does not offer anything
really big besides Gnome integration, which -- for the most part --
does not matter for the average user. Also, changing things midway is
bad; it's confusing for the users. On principle it's something that
should only be done for very compelling reasons, and I sincerely believe that this is not the case with Epiphany.<br>
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