On Nov 26, 2014 12:25 PM, "Matthew Miller" mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 02:14:38PM -0600, inode0 wrote:
As a user, not sure how typical or atypical a user I am, I find programs that take me places I don't ask to go a bit unfriendly and I would prefer the about:newtab default with start.fp.o pinned to it initially to be the nicer solution from an end user experience perspective.
For perspective: The first time you open Firefox, it starts with a "Welcome to Firefox" page, loaded from mozilla.org, and the home page in a second tab. (In F21 and rawhide, start.fp.o pinned, along with ads -- currently from booking.com -- and other Mozilla-slected links.) So unless we make _additional_ changes, it's already taking you somewhere.
In that case, if the firefox package winds up sticking with about:newtab then I would argue that the welcome page should also go away for the sake of consistency.
That said, since data seem to indicate that start.fp.o is useful to a number of people I am inclined to believe it is worth keeping.
-- Garrett Holmstrom