On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 15:06 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > IMHO, we should consider dropping Firefox from Fedora entirely
Showing ads does not make Firefox nonfree. The only reason we should completely remove Firefox from Fedora is if it starts shipping nonfree or patent-encumbered code -- like the Cisco binary that just recently got removed, or that EME module from Adobe that they're planning to include -- in such a way that is difficult or impossible to strip out. > in favor of > Epiphany for Workstation and Midori for the Spins (except the KDE Spin > which > already ships Konqueror as the browser). We're working hard on WebKitGTK+ (and by extension Epiphany, which, needless to say, will not run ads on the new tab page :) and it will be ready to replace Firefox as the default in Workstation soon, hopefully in the F23-F25 time scale, at which time I hope it will be considered for that role. But it's not yet good enough, and users won't like it if we switch before it is. Midori does not securely handle unverified TLS certificates, so it's not safe to use for HTTPS. It's not even worth considering until that's fixed. We should stick with Firefox for the time being, and simply disable the ad feature one way or another.
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