Well ... in one word: epiphany. Why?
- integrated with gnome. - faster - simple - People will use it like they use firefox, because it's behavior is the same. - users who wish firefox/iceweasel can install it also. - the patch available (from the BR) seems to make sense. firefox/iceweasel is a browser designed for other systems than *nix, not using the shared libraries available. Therefor, it is slow and a dead weight. Epiphany is well integrated with gnome and, has a gnome user, is should be the default. epiphany does not have the support for extensions, but it is better not to have extensions than provide a slow browser to the users. Users who wish can easily install iceweasel-gnome-support. Ter, 2007-01-16 às 12:20 +0100, Loïc Minier escreveu: > reassign 370098 tasksel > stop > > Hi, > > I'm reassigning #370098 to tasksel for discussion of the default > browser in the default desktop task (GNOME). > > #370098 has some small discussions on the topic, but the problems in > gnome-desktop-environment have been addressed (the package depends on > "epiphany-browser (>= 2.14.2.1) | gnome-www-browser" which will pull > epiphany-browser unless one of galeon or iceweasel-gnome-support has > been selected already). I think the current Depends are ok. > > > There's a small thread on the subject which initiated this discussion > on debian-devel@: > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/threads.html#00448> > > The current situation is problematic for two reasons: > - a lot of people think that epiphany should be installed by default > and the default browser > - the default gnome-panel and preferred applications reference epiphany > which currently doesn't get installed > > > I followed the debate on firefox versus epiphany on the Ubuntu lists, > and I think the biggest arguments back then were the number of features > Firefox had that Epiphany lacked and the name "Firefox" being popular. > > Today, I think these arguments need to be revisited as Epiphany gained > features and plenty of plugins, and Firefox was renamed to IceWeasel. > > > I don't know who and how we will decide what the default browser will > be (a poll? :), but my order of preference for installed browsers in > default installs would be: > 1) epiphany + iceweasel > 2) epiphany > 3) iceweasel > > I deliberately list two browsers as my first choice, but I don't > actually use any of the two: I use Galeon. :) I do think Epiphany > makes sense as the default browser, but IceWeasel should be easily > accessible for people used to Firefox. > > > Once this is decided and implemented, we probably will have to update > the default gnome-panel layout (to list firefox or to unlist epiphany), > and/or the default browser. Please clone this bug once tasksel has > been updated with the final decision. > > > As a related technical implementation note, the default browser could > be sensible-browser would the patch in #351901 be applied (will soon > hit its first anniversary!). Or we could move to gnome-www-browser, > but I prefer the former. > > Bye, > -- > Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]