Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:04:23 -0600 > Jim Campbell <[email protected]> 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, I'm not so sure that Chromium is >> the best fit for Xubuntu, at least for now. The translation issue is >> important to our users, and the codec issue is important to me. The privacy >> issue seems important to some, but I tend to think that most anything we do >> on the internet can be tracked somehow (unless we use the extreme step of >> using Tor or something). The smaller memory footprint provided by Chromium >> would be a "nice to have" feature, but we've survived using Firefox for a >> good while - using it for a LTS would probably be the best thing to do. >> >> Jim >> > > Thanks for the detailed comparison. At least it is an option. > > I would have to vote for Firefox for the LTS, Exactly my thoughts. This was my knee jerk reaction, but I've become convinced it's the right way after following this discussion. > give Chromium a chance to > stabilize. Also, perhaps looking at Midori vs Chromium for Lucid+1 > again. Midori is now maintained by the Xfce developers, isn't it? > Yes, Midori is maintained by the Xfce team.
Again, I would *love* to see Midori on Xubuntu, once its problems are solved. > Chromium bothers me, for for reasons I really can't put a finger on > right now. Perhaps it is what I see/hear about google and privacy. Any > user can switch the default search easy enough in Firefox. > > Just one man's opinion... > > +1 -- Pasi Lallinaho Xubuntu Marketing Lead Web-designer, graphic artist IRC: knome @ freenode
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