[Mageia-dev] Default browser in LXDE

[Funda Wang]

The only problem is, midori is now gtk3 based, while other parts of
lxde is gtk2 based.

2012/3/11 Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>:
> 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