[Mageia-dev] Default browser in LXDE

[Florian Hubold]

Am 11.03.2012 11:33, schrieb Oliver Burger:
> 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
>
Well, when i did my last beta1 installation, doing custom selection
and only adding LXDE and development category, the default launcher
on the LXDE panel included Midori instead of Firefox, now i wonder
if that's only a coincidence or maybe it has already been changed,
maybe in rpmsrate?