Default browser of FC3?

[Lars E. Pettersson]

On 10/10/2004 01:11 AM, Ricardo Veguilla wrote:
> I don't want to turn this into a browser war, but why do people think
> epiphany should not be the *default* browser?

No not a war, just splitting of hairs :-)

I mentioned some reasons earlier, but one may also ask the question, why 
Epiphany? Why not Mozilla, Konquerer, or Firefox?

I think the default should reflect the number of users of that 
application. I.e. the most used browser should be the default, and I do 
not think that Epiphany is the most used browser at the moment. It is 
used, I know, but not the most used. I do not think either that it will 
be the most used, it is probably too minimalistic for most users. So why 
Epiphany?

At the moment I think the most used browser in the Fedora community is 
Mozilla, based on it being the "default" now, and the spread use it has 
both in Linux, and other operating systems. As the Mozilla team now seem 
to push Firefox, I would seem logical for Fedora to follow this and set 
Firefox as the default.

> I mean, its not like its
> going be the only browser, if I remember correctly, firefox is going to
> be included in FC3 and galeon is available in many third party repos

Your quite correct! And perhaps the ideal solution would be what I 
mentioned earlier, a box asking "Would you like this application to be 
your default" showing up until a default have been chosen (or a box with 
the text, "Chose default application ..." when opening an http-url, 
etc., you get the picture)

Lars
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