[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers
Tux99
tux99-mga at uridium.org
Fri Oct 1 04:07:36 CEST 2010
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, sorteal wrote:
> I'm curious if Chromium has been considered as the default browser?
> With KDE seeming to be the DE of choice and Firefox having a less than
> stellar record with KDE integration I find Chromium to be an appealing
> alternative to Firefox. Just curious.
I'd much prefer to keep Firefox as default, it is still much more
popular than Chromium and since Google as a company is considered
highly controversial because of their attitude to privacy, using
Chromium as default would antagonize a part of our potential users.
Also while Chromium is technically open source, in practice Google
discourages community collaboration, see this blog entry from the
Fedora Chromium packager:
http://spot.livejournal.com/314645.html
While we are at it, why don't we rather include AdblockPlus enabled by
default with EasyList+EasyPrivacy filters for Firefox?
Blocking off ads and tracking scripts makes Firefox a lot faster too!
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