<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Micah Gersten <<a href="mailto:micahg@ubuntu.com">micahg@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On 01/07/2011 09:51 PM, Phil Whitaker wrote: > I agree that we shouldn't change the default apps too much and should > only do so if there's a real benefit to be gained. > > That said, my browser vote goes to Chromium - I switched from Firefox > over 12 months ago and I've never looked back. The daily version of > Chromium from the PPA is slightly more unstable than Firefox, but I'm > assuming we'll go with the stable release, so this shouldn't be an > issue. IN my opinion, Firefox is old and tired when compared to > Chromium - the layout is cleaner and I'm much more productive since > switching. </div><snip /> > > Hope that helps. > > Phil People seem to be forgetting that Firefox 4 will be in Natty (beta 8 is already in), not the current Firefox that's in Maverick and earlier releases. I think it's unfair to compare Chromium to Firefox 3.6. For those that want to try Firefox 4 on a stable release (karmic and up), we have a test version in the firefox-next PPA (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next). The package is firefox-4.0 and can be installed side-by-side with the current Firefox. </blockquote><div> Exactly. I've been using the daily builds for Firefox 4 for a while now, and they're *A LOT* faster, and way better feature-wise compared to Chromium. If anybody's going to do a comparision, try to wait until Firefox 4 is released. Speaking of which, I wouldn't switch important default applications like the webbrowser without such a default comparison, anyway. (e.g., it's important to also take the transition period in mind; will people upgrading between versions of Xubuntu be able to keep their bookmarks and the like easily?) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Micah </blockquote></div> -- Vincent