<div>On 09/08/07, <a href="mailto:h.aling@home.nl">h.aling@home.nl</a> <<a href="mailto:h.aling@home.nl">h.aling@home.nl</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> ---- Vincent <<a href="mailto:imnotb@gmail.com">imnotb@gmail.com</a>> 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)</blockquote><div> 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... </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-H- > > Thanks, > > -- > Vincent </blockquote> </div> -- Vincent