How can we improve the spin?

[Jayson Rowe]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Johannes Lips <johannes.lips at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Sergio <secipolla at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have another observation.
>> I wouldn't ship Midori with the spin.
>> It isn't an Xfce app. It uses git.xfce.org but it's an Elementary Project
>> app.*
>> It isn't so lightweight on resources. It's small but that's because it
>> uses the stock webkit-gtk engine which isn't small (but, granted, GIMP needs
>> it too so the spin doesn't get much larger).
>> But most importantly, it's unusable currently as it crashes everywhere and
>> Firefox does the job pretty well.
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>> * I used to use Midori as I translated it back then and kept always
>> running the development version. I'm not a programmer so I can't say if one
>> thing has to do with the other but ever since Christian (the main dev)
>> started focusing on GTK3 support and that Ubuntu 'menu-on-the-panel' thing
>> Midori went downhill. Mainly, I suppose, because the stock webkit-gtk engine
>> browser crashes everywhere and so does Midori.
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> Sorry but midori is still a Xfce app, even if it's developed with some focus
> on keeping the elementary design. Also it's not that unstable if you just
> use it for basic web browsing.
> I could observe a lot of crashes related to flash. If you try to avoid flash
> it works pretty flawless.
>
> Johannes
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I use Midori a lot - Chrome is my 'main' browser, but at work, I use
Midori to keep out ticketing system, wiki and intranet up - it's light
on resources, and works well for that task, and helps me keep my
personal stuff (chrome) separate from my chrome stuff.

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-jayson