midori appears to use the same plugins as FF
> Thanks, Dwain, but actually I think Julien's right and I do see more > problems with the script idea I suggested. > > To the rest of the list, it looks like PCLXDE (from a separate email) has > quite a good software suite. FWIW, I'm officially on board with Midori. > > Which begs the question, is there going to be a lubuntu-restricted-extras, > and are separate plugins needed for Midori to support Flash and multimedia > as mentioned by PCLXDE? > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Dwain Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The fact that there has been this much discussion on this topic is proof >> to >> me that Jeff Stone's original idea is the way to go. If you make a >> hard to >> change choice, many users will be unhappy. But if you make a good >> choice >> with the default (Chromium or Midori or whatever) that will be OK, but >> make >> easy for folks to make a substitution or addition, most folks will be >> very >> happy. >> >> I cannot imagine not having FireFox on a system, but I know for this >> distro >> it would be a poor choice as the default. I know enough on how to add >> it >> later, but that is not the case for everyone. Let's make it easy for >> those >> folks who have strong opinions about such tools to make their own >> choices on >> such things. >> >> I continue to agree with Jeff. >> >> Dwain >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Julien Lavergne >> <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> I know we will not be all agree after this discussion. But I 'm >>> collecting >>> arguments for all browsers to make a decision after the discussion. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Julien Lavergne >>> >>> Le 2 févr. 2010 à 14:14, Glen Bizeau <[email protected]> a écrit : >>> >>> >>> I think this is one of those time when we are all going to agree to >>>> disagree... >>>> >>>> Julien, if we go with Midori, can we put a script or shortcut on the >>>> desktop that will install FF? >>>> >>>> Personally I think this would fit the bill, have a lite browser, but >>>> give users who don't know very much a "simple" way to >>>> install FF. I am thinking about the illiterate here, bot people like >>>> us who know what we are doing. >>>> >>>> I'm fine with Midori since it seems to do everything FF does, but I >>>> suspect if we have some way to track it, I think you >>>> would see a lot of FF installs after the fact. >>>> >>>> Glen >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Steve <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:40:49 -0000, Joe <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Steve, >>>>>> >>>>>> I found changing preferences to identify as Safari was best for >>>>>> online >>>>>> banking. I think that's because Safari uses webkit too. >>>>>> >>>>>> Joe >>>>>> >>>>>> I know that trick, I have the User Agent Switcher plugin on FF for >>>>> problems >>>>> like that. Im just thinking of users who dont know or understand >>>>> about >>>>> this. >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 22:32 +0000, Steve wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:09:37 -0000, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Been using midori all day long at every site i can think of with >>>>>>> no >>>>>>>> hiccups... going with firefox is a mistake..... if you want a >>>>>>>> lightweight >>>>>>>> distro you have to make the number one program used light weight >>>>>>>> as >>>>>>>> well... otherwise its a like system but you spend most of your >>>>>>>> time >>>>>>>> in >>>>>>>> a >>>>>>>> pokey program >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I have found a couple of problems sites with Midori but they >>>>>>>> appear >>>>>>> to be >>>>>>> known and can be overcome. Sites that claim the browser is >>>>>>> unsupported >>>>>>> tend to work OK, a few sites told me FF 3.0, 3.5 & 3.6 was >>>>>>> unsupported. >>>>>>> Online banking sites are another matter, obviously I can only test >>>>>>> mine, >>>>>>> which refuses to cooperate with Midori, Opera and FF 3.5 & 3.6. I >>>>>>> am >>>>>>> not >>>>>>> sure if this will be a major problem, would the target group for >>>>>>> this >>>>>>> distro use online banking. >>>>>>> The thing is, just how critical are these two. >>>>>>> http://www.twotoasts.de/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=399 >>>>>>> http://www.twotoasts.de/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=168 >>>>>>> It looks like they are not going to get sorted any time soon. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Steve >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Mailing list: >>>>> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>> Unsubscribe : >>>>> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: >>>> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : >>>> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: >>> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : >>> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
