+1 firefox I swap to chrome anyway, but firefox is the better of the two.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Phill Whiteside <phi...@vpolink.com> wrote: > +1 for Firefox. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > > On 10 June 2013 22:47, Julien Lavergne <gi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was going to prepare a long thread with advantages / disadvantages >> between Firefox and Chromium, but let's make it a bit short :-) >> >> If I am lazy, the logical choose is to keep Chromium, because Ubuntu >> (Canonical) already decided to switch to it. So, much of the work from >> Ubuntu will go to Chromium instead of Firefox. However, many arguments >> is are favour of Firefox in our case : >> - Good behaviour on old hardware : thanks to your tests, Firefox seems >> to behave well on old hardware. I also saw it on my own testing >> system. It's difficult to say if 1 is better than another one, but a 1 >> tab use of Firefox seems a bit better, and many users still use only 1 >> tab :-) >> - PowerPC support : Firefox support is still limited, but Firefox >> exists on powerpc. No need to advertise the fact that we have 2 >> different browsers. >> - Even if Chromium is open source, it's still very close to Chrome and >> Google. In a politic view, it's better to have a product managed by a >> foundation (still, they have a lot of money from Google ...). >> - Customization support : You can add bookmarks and other >> customization to Firefox. Chromium doesn't have it (yet ?). There is >> also (still ?) a module to install flash support. >> - No "It's dead Jim" bug. It may be fixed in the future, but I'm not >> sure it will be critical enough for Canonical to but a lot of effort >> to fix it. It mostly affects us only, not Ubuntu. >> - Quick update of new upstream versions (I hope it will be the same >> without Canonical support). >> - The next big UI update will be great ! (I know, it's not a real >> argument :-)) >> >> Still, Chromium has advantages : >> - Canonical support (it's my main concern about the switch). >> - Native webapp (I didn't find a way to launch webapp in Firefox). >> - Many apps in the Marketplace (the Mozilla one is still young). >> >> I still think that the difference between the 2 are not so big, and I >> would like to make easy to switch from one to another, so everyone >> will be happy. >> >> If people have concern about this switch, it's time to speak :-) I >> don't plan to come with this discuss again for 14.04 (except, if there >> is a big problem using Firefox during 13.10). >> >> Regards, >> Julien Lavergne >> >> -- >> Lubuntu-users mailing list >> Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >> > > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > >
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