Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-29 Thread Vincent
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Jim Campbell jwcampb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Thanks for your input, and for bringing some of these issues to our attention. I'd like to try and summarize some of the issues and concerns that people have. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Marko Oreskovic

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-29 Thread Lionel Le Folgoc
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:27:40PM +0100, Vincent wrote: You forgot the UI consistency issue, which I personally consider pretty important. Anyway, for as far as we can't already say this has been concluded, here's another vote for not including it in the LTS. I also saw Lionel uploaded

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-28 Thread Jim Campbell
Hi All, Thanks for your input, and for bringing some of these issues to our attention. I'd like to try and summarize some of the issues and concerns that people have. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Marko Oreskovic markore...@gmail.comwrote: Vincent wrote: Also, Chrome extensions aren't

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-28 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:04:23 -0600 Jim Campbell jwcampb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Thanks for your input, and for bringing some of these issues to our attention. I'd like to try and summarize some of the issues and concerns that people have. What do people think? Given all of this,

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-28 Thread Pasi Lallinaho
Charlie Kravetz wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:04:23 -0600 Jim Campbell jwcampb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Thanks for your input, and for bringing some of these issues to our attention. I'd like to try and summarize some of the issues and concerns that people have. What do people

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-28 Thread David Collins
Jim, I'll mainly comment on 3) Statistics from the Firefox add-ons site (ordered by popularity) .. #1 *Adblock Plus: 926,549 weekly downloads* #2 Coral IE Tab: 105,047 weekly downloads #3 Download Flash and Video: 60,397 weekly downloads ie. Adblock Plus is very

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-28 Thread Jim Campbell
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:11 PM, David Collins david.8.coll...@gmail.comwrote: Jim, I'll mainly comment on 3) Statistics from the Firefox add-ons site (ordered by popularity) .. #1 *Adblock Plus: 926,549 weekly downloads* #2 Coral IE Tab: 105,047 weekly downloads

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-28 Thread Simon Steinbeiß
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:17:01 +0200 Pasi Lallinaho o...@knome.fi wrote: Charlie Kravetz wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:04:23 -0600 Jim Campbell jwcampb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Thanks for your input, and for bringing some of these issues to our attention. I'd like to try and

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-27 Thread Marko Oreskovic
Vincent wrote: Also, Chrome extensions aren't yet as powerful, as the Adblock lookalikes for Chrome can't actually block ads from being loaded, just prevent them from being displayed. This exposes you to a lot more scrutiny from advertising companies. Also +1 against Chrome as default

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-27 Thread Marko Oreskovic
Marcos wrote: Hi! I vote for Chromium, not Chrome. But Chromium and Chrome has a important problem: I can't localize to my language. Only the languages that they choose, can enter in Chromium/Chrome. You can read more here: http://acurti.es/8la Marked as Won't fix :( I think is contrary

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-23 Thread Steve Dodier
I think it would be wise to see how the mobile team will address the video playback issue [0] in Chromium before considering a move. [0] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=NzkxNQ -- xubuntu-devel mailing list xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-23 Thread David Collins
I use Firefox but have been watching Chrome carefully with an eye to switching, but it seems that Google still has a bit of work to do before it matches Firefox's extensions. This is an interesting article because it gets into the details of Chrome extensions enough to pick out some of the

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-14 Thread Marcos
Hi! You have more information here about my petitions for localizate to my language (asturian language): http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28348 and here: https://answers.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+question/90682 And do not seem very interested in the location of application

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-13 Thread Dave Morley
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 10:57 -0600, Jim Campbell wrote: Hi All, I wanted to suggest to the team that we switch from using Firefox to Google Chrome as the default web browser for the Lucid release. At UDS the Ubuntu Mobile team lead announced that they would be switching to Google Chrome as

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-13 Thread Pasi Lallinaho
Dave Morley wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 10:57 -0600, Jim Campbell wrote: Hi All, I wanted to suggest to the team that we switch from using Firefox to Google Chrome as the default web browser for the Lucid release. At UDS the Ubuntu Mobile team lead announced that they would be

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-13 Thread Jim Campbell
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Pasi Lallinaho o...@knome.fi wrote: Dave Morley wrote: Jim out of curiosity what does epiphany use in comparison? Or midori. We would have to look at those, but given the lack of extensions and keyboard shortcuts for Epiphany, and the newness of

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-13 Thread Pasi Lallinaho
Jim Campbell wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Pasi Lallinaho o...@knome.fi mailto:o...@knome.fi wrote: Dave Morley wrote: Jim out of curiosity what does epiphany use in comparison? Or midori. We would have to look at those, but given the lack of extensions

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-13 Thread Dave Morley
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 19:12 +0200, Pasi Lallinaho wrote: Jim Campbell wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Pasi Lallinaho o...@knome.fi wrote: Dave Morley wrote: Jim out of curiosity what does epiphany use in comparison?

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-13 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
HI Jim On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Jim Campbell jwcampb...@gmail.com wrote: I know that Charlie had said that switching browsers for an LTS wouldn't be a great idea, but given the points I've mentioned above, it seems one worth considering.  What do you think? I also use Chrome/ium and

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-13 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Jim Campbell jwcampb...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to suggest to the team that we switch from using Firefox to Google Chrome as the default web browser for the Lucid release. At UDS the Ubuntu Mobile team lead announced that they would be switching to Google

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-13 Thread Jim Campbell
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) jonat...@ubuntu.com wrote: HI Jim On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Jim Campbell jwcampb...@gmail.com wrote: I know that Charlie had said that switching browsers for an LTS wouldn't be a great idea, but given the points I've

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-13 Thread Kaspar Kööp
Hi, Just to clarify... are we talking about google chrome, or chromium? As i understand they are 2 different things. Since LL will be a LTS release, maybe we shouldn't include beta software. Best, Kaspar 2010/1/13 Jim Campbell jwcampb...@gmail.com On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:38 AM,

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-13 Thread Jim Campbell
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Kaspar Kööp meb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just to clarify... are we talking about google chrome, or chromium? As i understand they are 2 different things. Since LL will be a LTS release, maybe we shouldn't include beta software. Best, Kaspar It looks

Re: Replacing Firefox with Google Chrome

2010-01-13 Thread Vincent
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Jim Campbell jwcampb...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Kaspar Kööp meb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just to clarify... are we talking about google chrome, or chromium? As i understand they are 2 different things. Since LL will be a LTS