On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:36 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: > Since now both Firefox and Chromium have committed to rapid release > schedules, I think it's time to reevaluate the default browser in > Ubuntu. I am concerned that some of these upgrades might break system > integration at some point. While the security team does its best to > prevent regressions, we can't test every case (especially ones we don't > know about :)). Perhaps, if we can find one with sufficient features, > switch to a Webkit based browser with a more normal release schedule (6 > months). We could have an installer like Kubuntu does to install > Firefox or Chromium on demand. This will also keep the system > documentation current within the release as the screenshots/menus won't > be out of date shortly after release.
I suspect this will be problematic for certain websites that only work with a whitelist of common browsers, such as banking sites. At this point in time, Firefox has the advantage that regular users can pretty much count on it working everywhere. Marc. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
