On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 23:16 +0200, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Hey dudes, > > Thus far the major distros have all been keen to ship Firefox, as it has the > momentum of public recognition, provides an improved but ultimately familiar > user experience and has the resources of mozilla.org (and Google) behind it. > I don't think that's the wrong choice, by the way - Firefox is a really good > product, and Epiphany isn't stunningly better integrated or featured that it > poses serious competition. (That's not to say it doesn't rock, just that the > competition is tough!)
Personally I don't like firefox at all because it doesn't feel as fast as epiphany does. I don't like the way firefox works with tabs, etc. The reason why I do have firefox on my system is because I need the gtkmozembed component from it for epiphany and galeon. > That said, there is a massive opportunity opening up for Epiphany, and if we > are smart and listen to our users, we can "reclaim the browser". *cough* ;-) > > Firefox is rapidly becoming a pain in the behind for Linux distributors, due > to mozilla.org's trademark and security update policies. Everyone is feeling > it, no one is enjoying it. Epiphany is also a pain because of this, because it depends on either mozilla or firefox. As mozilla-* and epiphany maintainer for firefox, I know what you mean with these ;) > Epiphany is an interesting solution for the trademark issue, especially when > you compare the level of desktop integration (hopefully this will improve, > too). Combined with xulrunner, it may relieve some of the support probems. I > can't say for sure - it depends on the API/ABI commitment made by xulrunner. The trademark issue is a real problem for Debian and Ubuntu because of strict license policy. Archlinux has permission to use the official logos, so it isn't a real issue for us. About XULRunner: do we _NEED_ to be compatible with XUL? I haven't seen a single web application written in XUL yet. Most of the stuff I see is either serverside, ActiveX, Flash or Java. > Anyway, just wanted to point this opportunity out to you guys. Is it time to > reclaim the browser? :-) They did with the release of 1.6.0 already ;-) _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
