Browsers [was: Fedora Core 3]

[Harald Hoyer]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:33:38PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 
>>Nobody's saying to remove all browsers from core, but to allow switching 
>>of the main browser with /etc/alternatives, which is a mechanism having 
>>nothing to do with core, extras or alternatives.  They just happen to be 
>>named similarly...
> 
> 
> I don't know if you've looked at the Fedora Extras Firefox package, but it's
> nicely integrated so that in Gnome, you can choose it as a 'preferred web
> browser', and you get it instead of Mozilla when you hit the web browser
> button or any other time Gnome wants to show a web page.
> 
> Unlike /etc/alternatives, this is a per user choice, which makes more sense
> for an application like this.
> 

I hope we won't see paperclip dialogs like: "Firefox does not seem your default browser. Would you..."