Ubuntu is not Firefox friendly

[Michael T. Richter]

On Mon, 2006-27-03 at 10:49 +0800, Senectus . wrote:

> Just out of interest.. is there a specific reason why we aren't
> supporting epiphany in Ubuntu as the default standard?



> It seems to be a fair bit "slicker" in Gnome than Firefox is, and uses
> the same (similar) back end...


I did my usual "activist check" when I first heard of Epiphany as an
alternative default browser.  I turned off Firefox and used Epiphany for
a week.  At the end of the week, I was so glad that I could turn Firefox
back on that I practically broke the keyboard typing in the commands to
do it.

I'm not sure what is supposed to be so attractive about Epiphany.  I do
know, however, that it doesn't support the plugins (like NoScript and
Adblock) that I rely on to make surfing the net even remotely
attractive.  I also got the overall impression that Epiphany was just
not very flexible and nice to end-users wanting to customize it.

If Epiphany becomes the default, one of the first things I'll be doing
is uninstalling it when Dapper comes out.
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