2010/10/1 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vign...@gmail.com>: > On 1 October 2010 10:44, Wolfgang Bornath <molc...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Which extionsion a user wants to instaall should be left to the user's >> decision. Make the install easy but do not install any extensions by >> default. I've never used those extensions, except the developper bar. >> Somebody told me to install Adblock and whatever, I did and FF became >> unstable but not one second faster. >> Maybe because I do not visit many sites with large ads and all that >> bling-bling stuff. >> >> Anyhow, as a rule do not add any stuff by default that the user ought >> to decide for himself, this is not Windows. We should not tell the >> user what he wants to do. > > Then we shouldn't install neither firefox nor konqueror at all since > that's a choice that the user ought to decide for himself...
C'mon, a browser is not the same as a browser extension. Of course there must be defaults. But installing browser extensions by default is too much "default" IMHO. Same as with mail clients. You should set a mail client by default but you should not add any extensions to this client by default. wobo