[Oneiric-Topic] Default Browser

[Chris Coulson]

Hi,

I will reply to this thread properly in a few days, but I wanted to
reply to this particular post now.

On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 14:23 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote:

> Firefox I don't think ever fit in because of XUL.

I'd like to know why you think Firefox won't ever fit in because of XUL?
After all, it's just another toolkit (like QT is just another toolkit,
or perhaps you think that QT wouldn't fit in too?), and Firefox does
actually render platform native widgets in most cases. In any case, I
think Firefox fits in pretty well in Natty, and I'd be interested to
know what you think currently stands out.

> It takes a lot of work every release to get the plugin going to make Firefox act in some
> way like a regular addition to the desktop. 

As the Firefox maintainer in Ubuntu, this is news to me - perhaps I'm
missing something?

> Also on integration issue
> it also isn't integrated with unity with quicklists and all that kind
> of thing.

Well, it's already integrated with the global menu. In addition to this,
I'm going to be doing work on integrating it with the launcher in Unity
next cycle. However, a spec or some suggestions of useful things I could
do with quicklists would be welcome.

What else is missing?


> Maintaining the plugin for
> Firefox and adding more bits to it every time and working around
> compatibility stuff and having to keep the 2 packages going is a lot
> more effort than just patching something once and shipping it.

Same response as the one to your similar comment above ;)

Regards
Chris
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