Epiphany in Xubuntu?

[Vincent]

On 09/08/07, h.aling at home.nl <h.aling at home.nl> wrote:
>
> ---- Vincent <imnotb at gmail.com> schrijft:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Recently I have been working with the Epiphany browser a bit, and I must
> > say: it's not bad. Now with the discussion on including Gnome
> dependencies
> > the idea occurred to me that perhaps it would be a good idea to replace
> > Firefox with Epiphany. I know this has been discussed before, and I'm
> not
> > really counting on it happening, but I wanted to give it some thoughts
> > again, because if we are to include Gnome dependencies, the barrier to
> > including Epiphany would be lower. In fact, it would be a way of staying
> > quite light-weight, while still being able to include perhaps more
> > functional apps (though I prefer Xarchiver to the sluggish file-roller,
> > taking the minor interface issues for granted).
> >
> > Firstly, what is the reason for us to use Firefox by default? What
> exactly
> > do we require of a default web browser? I suppose it needs to at least
> be
> > able to browse the web. True, Epiphany perhaps has less features than
> > Firefox, but it does have most of the basics.
> >
> > Furthermore, it has two benefits over Firefox:
> >  1) It's faster
> >  2) It integrates better with the rest of the desktop (though Firefox
> > already does a pretty good job for such a multi-platform application)
> >
> > I guess when one prefers Firefox over Epiphany, this is because of
> Firefox's
> > many extensions (at least it can't be because of the tabs or the fact
> that
> > it's open source ;-). However, when someone is of the type to find and
> > install extensions himself, he probably is also perfectly able (and
> willing)
> > to install Firefox himself.
> >
> > So, I'd like to hear everybody's thoughts and perhaps more reasons to
> > include one browser or another by default.
>
> I can think of one basic reason: familiarity.
>
> Since FF is a cross-platform application, users will feel right at home
> using FF... (not to be confused with quality)


But honestly, even the greatest technophobe would be able to use a browser,
would they? I mean, you basically enter a URL on top, press "Go" to go and
you click links to be redirected from one website to another...

-H-
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Vincent
>
>


-- 
Vincent
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