On Monday 05 December 2011 21:37:40 Felix Geyer wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose switching to Firefox as our default browser. > > We have discussed switching to a different browser more than once in > the past. I think the arguments against it were "let's give rekonq a > try and see how it evolves", "we prefer KDE applications" and "no > space on the CD image". > At the same time we provide a Firefox installer in the Kickoff menu. > Isn't that already a strong indication that we should really switch to > Firefox if possible? :-) > > So here are my arguments why we should switch: > > - I'm worried about the security support of rekonq + QtWebkit. > Firefox and Chromium regularly provide security updates while > there were none for QtWebkit. I find it hard to believe that > it doesn't have any vulnerabilities. In fact the security tracker [1] > lists many webkit CVEs. > - I think rekonq is not stable enough, i.e. it crashes too often. > - The browser is the most important application so we should provide > the best solution available for Kubuntu and not limit ourselves to > "KDE-native" applications. > - The Firefox KDE integration works very well now so we have KDE > file dialogs and correct file type associations. > - It should be obvious that Firefox has superior features. Just think > about bookmark and history syncing and the vast amount of extensions > available. > > Some may prefer Chromium over Firefox but that isn't in the Ubuntu main > component so we'd have to convince the MIR team [2]/Canonical to > guarantee support for the package. > > Firefox requires approximately 20 MB on images. This is too much > for our 700 MB CD image. Thus I propose that we switch to a 1.5 GB > USB/DVD image that includes everything on the CD + Firefox + more > language packs + maybe a few more applications. This also means > dropping our current DVD image which is imho of very limited use > anyway [3]. > We would still provide a CD image with rekonq and a very limited set > of languages (probably just one). > > What are your opinions? > > Felix > > > [1] http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/main.html > [2] MIR approval team: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mir > [3] It contains the live CD image and an alternate image with all KDE > SC packages. Who seriously wants all those packages on his/her system?
Firefox does not support storing passwords in KWallet. And I think this is needed for default browser. -- Pali Rohár [email protected]
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