Should Firefox stay the default browser in Fedora Workstation?

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 06/06/2014 12:20 PM, Elad Alfassa wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Christian Schaller
>> <cschalle at redhat.com <mailto:cschalle at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Christian
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>> 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).
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> Is there any reason that this cannot be packaged separately from the
> 'firefox' SRPM and included as part of Fedora Workstation? I don't
> think it's an unreasonable thing for the Workstation WG to decide
> should be default on that Product.

It might run afoul of the Firefox trademark thing.  A rebranded
"IceWeasle GNOME" loses all the brand recognition.

josh