[Mageia-dev] Default browser in LXDE

Oliver Burger oliver.bgr at googlemail.com
Sun Mar 11 11:33:35 CET 2012


Hi there,

as in the other DEs the default browser in LXDE is Firefox.
On the one hand one might have the opinion, that having the same apps
on all the DEs is a good choice, but actually LXDE is a Lightweight DE
and Firefox may be many things but not lightweight. Quite to the
contrary, it is a resource hungry monster.

I would suggest now, to replace ff in task-lxde by midori, which is
far lighter then ff and in my tests I didn't find any missing
features. The next best solution would be chromium, which is a lot
heavier then midori but doesn't lack any features and is still lighter
then ff.

What do you think?

Oliver


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