Firefox Dilemma

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On 3/8/07, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/8/07, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > "Joel Bryan Juliano" <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Firefox had been the default web browsers for most of the Linux distributions.
> > > Now, Farsight Linux decided to switch to Epiphany as their default
> > > browser, and alot of people couldn't agree more.
> > > For Firefox, the situation is simple, most of the applications that
> > > had been written for Gnome doesn't support Firefox.
> > >
> > > One very strong reason is "Gconf", almost all Gnome's native
> > > application has a gconf configurable option, which Firefox, the
> > > default web-browser for Gnome doesn't have.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think you misunderstand something.
> >
> > Firefox isn't the default Gnome browser, however Epiphany is, which is
> > why it it integrates perfectly to Gnome, and why you see it in
> > Farsight, since IIRC Farsight is precisely meant to showcase Gnome.
> >
>
> In the wikipedia article for default says.
> "A default, in computer science, refers to a setting or value
> automatically assigned to a computer program or device, outside of
> user intervention. " -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_(computer_science)
>
> And for alot of Linux distributions, that is the case, and Firefox
> _is_ the default web-browser preset without user-intervention, so it
> is called default.
>
>
> > Yes, I too much prefer Epiphany over Firefox (overall), purely because
> > it's a native Gnome program hence integrates perfectly with the Desktop.
> > However the subject of Firefox vs Epiphany has been beaten to death
> > since the debut of Ubuntu. As far as I can remember, the outcome was
> > that although it was obviously recognized/acknowledged that the Desktop
> > integration and simplicity of Epiphany is a strong, good point, it was
> > nonetheless judged that the familiarity Windows users have with
> > Firefox, was of more value.
> > Since this situation is unlikely to change anytime soon (since FF is
> > getting increasingly popular on Windows), and since it's so easy to
> > install Epiphany, I didn't see a point in wasting time arguing on the
> > matter... ;-)
> >

And that scares me, what if Microsoft makes "Microsoft Office" free,
then Ubuntu will also ship Microsoft Office as default?

I'm sorry for helplessly thinking that this is the same mentality they
currently have.
I'm not against for anything at all, I love Ubuntu, it's just "Out of
the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks" (Matthew 12:34), and I'm
really taken this seriously.


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