Should Firefox stay the default browser in Fedora Workstation?

[Danishka Navin]

Hi Elad,

I have update dev.planning list of Mozilla regarding this discussion.



On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> To sum up this thread:
>
> The general consensus on this list is that Firefox will stay the default
> browser.
>
> To address the issues that were raised:
>
> GPU Acceleration: in the works, not stable enough yet, but I'm happy to
> see Mozilla is working on improving this for Linux. In addition to make the
> browser faster, it will also make it grind less CPU time and, as reported
> here, save battery - and longer battery time on laptops is always
> appreciated.
>
> Geolocation:  Upstream's bugzilla have obsolete patches to make Firefox
> use Geoclue2, but nobody wants/has the time/is working on getting them
> fixed and merged.
> As a workaround until those patches get merged (if ever) we can use the
> Mozilla Location Services instead of Google's location services, see
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063739
>
> Desktop Notifications: Not addressed in this thread. Upstream has a bug
> about this with discussion and implementation notes, but no patches. see
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=858919
>
> URL Scheme handler support: Not addressed in this thread. We want irc://,
> magnet:// and such links to work if the user has an app installed for them.
> Right now they don't. This also prevents us from adding a software:// URL
> scheme to make linking to apps in GNOME Software possible. Downstream bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105640
>
> UI that matches the rest of the desktop:
> We can't do anything about this. To ship the theme by default, we need
> permission from Mozilla, and we need to be able to promise that the theme
> will remain supported and that Firefox updates won't break it, degrading
> the user's experience to the default theme. We also need a way for the
> theme to be loaded by default - simply installing it is not enough. This
> will require patching Firefox. Patching, packaging and getting permission
> from Mozilla is not impossible, but it seems that giving the promise that
> the theme will remain supported for the forseeable future is impossible in
> the current state of things.
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867020 and this mailing
> list thread from August 2012:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2012-August/007612.html
> Note that the Firefox GTK3 port doesn't affect this point, because even
> Firefox with the GTK3 patches still looks exactly like GTK2 Firefox.
>
> GTK3 Support: Still in the works, not stable enough at the moment. No ETA
> either from what I can see.
>
> High-DPI Support: According to certain people this issue should be "not
> too hard" to fix, but unless someone is going to write patches, it's not
> going to happen
>
> Proper touch input support: Won't be possible before the GTK3 port is
> complete. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711711 and
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=978679
>
>
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