firefox has it's own sync service for a long time and it works the same way chrome's does, there is no need to force mozilla into "ubuntu one" because any user can setup ubuntu one synchronization of ~.mozilla folder
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Default Browser Follow-up > Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:25:37 +0000 > > Hi Abral > > You make some very good points about Firefox. > But from a users perspective, I find Google Chrome extremely useful because > of the way I can easily sync my bookmarks etc.. between my work computer and > home computer and mobile device. > I think this speaks to device convergence as Mark has so often mentioned, as > a primary goal for Ubuntu. > I do not normally intercede on this list but I feel the goal of device > ubiquity and how an internet browser deals with it is very important. > Perhaps if Firefox could be "configured" to automatically sync using the > cloud "Ubuntu One" service then it would be on "useful" parity with Google > Chrome. > > Regards > > Hilton Gibson > Systems Administrator > JS Gericke Library > Room 1025D > Stellenbosch University > Private Bag X5036 > Stellenbosch > 7599 > South Africa > > Tel: +27 21 808 4100 | Cell: +27 84 646 4758 > > http://www.sun.ac.za/library > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of Abral [[email protected]] > Sent: 28 June 2013 03:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Default Browser Follow-up > > Even if I think openness and freedom should be the main reason why > Ubuntu should have Firefox by default, I won't talk about this here. > > This is a non comprehensive list of "non-philosophical" reasons: > > 1) Firefox is a lot more familiar than Chromium for Linux users. It's > always been the default and it's the default in almost all the > distributions. Most of the people that don't prefer Firefox are using > Chrome, and not Chromium. > > 2) Firefox has a built-in PDF reader. > > 3) Firefox is better integrated with GNOME. > > 4) Firefox is going to support GStreamer soon > (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794282). > > 5) Firefox is going to support GTK3 soon > (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699). > > 6) Firefox has made a great effort to hunt down responsiveness issues, > seen in pauses and jank. They have made significant improvements seen > both in current releases as well as current nightlies, with more on the way. > > 7) When it comes to JavaScript performance, there is no clear winner. In > some tests, Firefox is faster. In other tests, Chromium is faster. > > 8) Mozilla is working on a project called OpenWebApps, that looks > similar to Unity webapps. You could reuse Firefox code to make Unity > webapps run in chromeless windows. > > 9) Firefox supports more architectures. > > 10) Firefox is more customizable than Chromium. > > 11) Firefox memory usage is a lot better than Chromium's and has > improved even more in the latest releases (that would be shipped with > Saucy), for example see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678037. > > 12) Mozilla is working on some cross-platform technologies that could > benefit Linux users. For example, Shumway (that is a replacement for > Flash), pdf.js (a pdf reader written in JavaScript), asm.js (that could > enable interesting applications and games to run on every platform, so > also on Linux). > > 13) There's good support for Firefox in Ubuntu. There are some (or, at > least, one) Canonical developers that are experienced with the Firefox > code base and are working on it > (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619899). > > 14) About web developers, I think it's a matter of taste. Firefox has > good web developer tools, and Chromium has good web developer tools too. > Firefox has also the addon Firebug, that is one of the most used by web > developers. > > 15) Firefox has smooth scrolling, some people are used to it and > wouldn't like the worse Chromium's scrolling experience. > > 16) There are other Linux distributions developers that are working on > Firefox. Canonical would benefit from it for free. > > I can't see any reason why you should switch to Chromium. > The responsiveness issues that Chow Loong Jin was talking about have > been mitigated a lot in the latest releases and will continue to improve > (there are some projects to improve this, like there was a project to > improve memory usage). > The GLES issue that Oliver Grawert was talking about will be likely > fixed soon enough, see > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788319. They're considering > switching to EGL instead of GLX. > > > -- > Caselle da 1GB, trasmetti allegati fino a 3GB e in piu' IMAP, POP3 e SMTP > autenticato? 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