[Foresight-devel] Re: x86 or x86_64 firefox...

[Thilo Pfennig]

Am Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:52:44 -0600
schrieb "Paul Cutler" <pcutler at foresightlinux.org>:

> I think we have to have 2 browsers.  Whether it's GNOME or KDE, they
> each come with their own, and I think users do expect Firefox.
> 
> I like the fact that Epiphany is the default.  It's more basic and
> limited, but it's quicker and integrated with GNOME.  (It's just not
> my choice anymore as I'm addicted to the Remember the Milk and Better
> Gmail extensions).

I really dont know what people are talking about if they say its
limited. Its quicker, its easier it can display all medias (if its
configured right) and it doesnt require any user intervention when it
comes to extensions except enabling adblock, which even that one could
do for the users. So I would say Epiphany is 100% browser, whereas
Firefox tries to give 150%. This results often in overloaded
extensions. Some even have more than 50 without real increase of
usability. I dont know what you do with your browser, but i do nothing
more than surfing, listening and viewing and I havent had one
situation where Epiphany could not help besides ... when some website
or router says he only interact with the Internet Explorer. Can
somebody please tell me only one page or action that Epiphany cant
handle and that a general user would use? I really think Firefox has
huge problems, especially security wise. The argument that people
expect Firefox sounds a bit like "people expect Internet Explorer" to
me. Firefox does even have live search in history and bookmarks afaik
(he has in FF3 I think) - Google Toolbar integrates only some of
Epiphanys features. Just wanted to say that for me Epiphany is much
more usable and powerful than Firefox. Only plus for FF are the list of
extensions - which are also a burden because you cant really support
all kinds of incompatibilities. So when a user says FF isnt working you
cant really say its Foresights problem or even upstream - you never
know and so to track down an issue is often impossible.

Thilo