[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

[sorteal at gmail.com]

As I stated before Mandriva has always done an amazing job of integrating Firefox into KDE.  Yet, other distros, for whatever reason, seem to have a difficult time of it.  Also, while I love Konqueror, it does have compatibility issues.  Chromium, regardless of your opinion of Google, is an incredibly fast browser.  

It seems like Firefox is the favorite browser of most people on this list. Also, with the quality of the developers on this project I'm sure FF integration with KDE will be excellent!  I'd love to see Chromium as the default but Firefox is an excellent browser in its own right as well. It's a win win either way. :)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 01:57:12 
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Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

On 1 October 2010 19:20, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 October 2010 18:54, <sorteal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I must agree. If FF is going to be the default then addons should be done
>> by the user.  Although I still think a browser better suited to KDE would
>> be a better choice.
>
> That's alreay what we do for years.
> We install a matching browser according to the choosen desktop.
> When the user choose KDE we default to konqueror else we default to firefox
> through meta-task => task-kde4 => konqueror
>

AFAICS Firefox is the default browser in KDE4:
$ grep Browser /var/lib/mandriva/kde4-profiles/common/share/config/kdeglobals
BrowserApplication=firefox


Konqueror is installed by default anyway. However, unfortunately
Konqueror isn't the most compatible browser out there...

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Ahmad Samir