Comments about Linux/Ubuntu from a former MS-programmer

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:04 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> It was fairly recent, within the past year - there was even a bounty
> "create a test quite for browsing with nautilus".
> 
> Last time I tried it, Nautilus was WAY too slow to even consider using
> as a web browser - maybe tis feature was dropped so the performance
> issues could be addressed?

Interesting, didn't know about that.
Maybe if we file a bug about this feature going missing, the devs would
reply with a little explanation ?

That said, if I want to browse the web I use Galeon or Epiphany, but I
quite liked the concept that Nautilus being a file browser, it was able
to browse any file anywhere, regardless of protocol. If it can read
local files, then why not remote files on SMB or NFS or FTP servers. And
if it can browse via FTP, why not with HTTP. If just for consistency's
sake, I found it quite logical/good, that it was able to use HTTP.
If it was removed due to performance problem, hopefully they will think
of re-introducing this feature, once speed issue has been resolved.
Since Gnome as a whole has recently embarked in quest for performance,
chasing and fixing bottlenecks everywhere, chances are that they will
think of fixing this particular Nautilus problem :o)

Let's wait and see...

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Vince