Should Firefox stay the default browser in Fedora Workstation?

[Elad Alfassa]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Christian Schaller <cschalle at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi Elad,
> Some of the issues you mention we actually have people in the desktop team
> at Red Hat working on, like the GTK3 port.
>
> In general I am tempted to keep Firefox as our primary browser for a
> variety of reasons like brand recognition, security
> updates and web site support. So while I am positive to the effort the Web
> team are undertaking I am having a hard time
> convincing myself they would be a better choice for us despite the
> integration advantage they bring.
>
> Christian
>
>
> I'm well aware of the efforts going on to port firefox to GTK3.
Nevertheless, this port won't get us much, because Firefox will still look
alien to the rest of the desktop (which is something upstream is unwilling
to change, and Fedora people objected to including the "Firefox GNOME"
theme by default).

Even after the GTK3 port is done, High-DPI and touch input support won't be
supported (at least, not anytime soon). How can we advertise high-dpi and
touch input support as features of our product if our default web browser,
arguably the most important app for most users, doesn't support them?


I wanted to raise a couple of more points about how upstream treats Linux,
but I'd rather stick with constructive criticism here.

-- 
-Elad Alfassa.
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