inclusion of firefox 3

Vincent imnotb at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 13:42:21 UTC 2008


On 3/4/08, Jari Rahkonen <jari.rahkonen at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
>
> Kaspar Kööp wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 04/03/2008, *Adi Roiban* <adi at roiban.ro <mailto:adi at roiban.ro>>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     Maybe you can have epiphany-browser as the default web browser in
> >     xubuntu.
> >
> >     --
> >
> >     Adi Roiban
> >
> >
> > doesn't epiphany still depend on firefox?
> >
> > kaspar
>
>
> Not in Hardy, but it does depend on a whole bunch of gnome libs. Though
> personally I would not support switching to epiphany even if it did not
> (especially this close to a release). Firefox is a good "selling point"
> to new users. Knowing  you won't need to learn a new app for every basic
> task (web surfing in this case) makes switching to Linux less
> frightening for many people.


Fair enough, and with the recent efforts regarding mobile Firefox the speed
improvements make it a better fit too.

- Jari
>
>
>

-- 
Vincent
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