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Speaking <i>entirely</i> from a layman's perspective, I disagree
with this proposal. I have GNOME Web on my machine as a secondary
browser; while I do like its UI and its GTK support, these are only
marginal considerations before the rest of the functionality in
Firefox. <br>
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In the spirit of "Don't fix what's not broken" and "tyranny of the
masses," I think that, constraining our view to Fedora users only,
Firefox has a bigger userbase than Epiphany. Speaking purely for the
layman end-user, it would appear a strange decision to abruptly
abandon Firefox for GNOME Web. Yes, I am aware just how easy it us
to run "su -c 'yum install firefox'," but not all unfortunate
end-users are able, and I suspect the move would generate a great
deal of bad publicity and FUD on the eye-rolling review sites. <br>
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Yammering aside, I see Christian Schaller has actually summed up my
points better than all my blabbering here. I do, however, agree with
you (Elad) and Michael Catanzaro in that shipping two browsers won't
work very well. Michael's usability questions also apply. For some
reason I'm obligated to kill Epiphany every time after I close it
(the process lingers?) and the compatibility issues are a little
irksome (Google Images, for example, refuses completely to give my
its modern continuously-scrolling interface). <br>
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I would appreciate more exposure for GNOME Web, but shipping it by
default might not attract the right audience for that. And I don't
quite understand how Fedora contributing to Firefox "instead of"
GNOME Web is the wrong direction, if anyone could expand on that for
me? <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/06/2014 08:52 AM, Elad Alfassa
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<div class="">Should Firefox stay the default browser in
Fedora Workstation?<br>
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I know it's powerful, it has a lot of extensions, and it's
popular. But it's integration with our desktop is lacking
and getting worse all the time.<br>
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Here's a list of things Firefox lacks in Fedora:<br>
* GPU acceleration<br>
* Integration with the desktop's geolocation services<br>
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<div class=""> * On that note, geolocation doesn't work at
all in Fedora's firefox at the moment<br>
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<div class="">* Integration with the desktop's notification
system<br>
* Support of url scheme handlers (this used to work)<br>
* UI that matches the rest of the desktop (without
installing 3rd party theme and extensions)<br>
* GTK3 support<br>
* High-DPI support<br>
* Touch input support</div>
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Some of those issues are being actively worked on, other have
incomplete patches in upstream's bugzilla with nobody working to
finish them, and some of them seem to be issues that will never
be solved (such as making the UI feel more "native" to GNOME).<br>
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<div>Meanwhile, Epiphany (GNOME Web) keeps getting better and
better, perhaps we should consider it as the default?<br>
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<div>-- <br>
<div dir="ltr">-Elad Alfassa.</div>
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