> > A more light-weight browser would address this issue. However, one must > ask why doesn't Ubuntu simply do the same - use Firefox for browsing > their documentation? If one can answer this, they can understand why we > too are following in those foot step.
Ubuntu does not use Firefox bacause GNOME docs are not HTML. > It would be no problem at all to launch firefox for external links. It > would also be possible to stylize these links in some way to show the > users they are an external link. We were going to do this for the > "Xubuntu Welcome Centre". It's the same problem on older systems as you mentined above. People will not know why clicking on a link suddenly starts loading another app. Besides the time to load that you mentioned there will be an UI inconsistency as well. Jani -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
