+1 Firefox
2013/6/11 Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com> > +1 for Firefox > > On 2013-06-10 23:47, Julien Lavergne 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 >
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