Pros / Cons: Replacing Konqueror with Firefox

[Mustafa Muhammad]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox at bzb.us> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Mustafa Muhammad <mustafa1024m at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 1) We will have the most popular open source browser, only chrome (not
>> chromium) has more users than Firefox and it's not fully open source (it
>> had flash built in)
>
>
> Google Chrome is the Chromium open source project built, packaged, and
> distributed by Google.  Chrome is Chromium with some closed source stuff
> added.
> As far as VP9, WebP, and future technologies, you're going to get that
> experience far faster in Chromium than Firefox.  If you're concerned about
> YouTube, it's the way to go.  I have yet to find an extension in the
> Chrome store which does not work in Chromium.
>
> If we're talking popularity, and compatibility with all the new
> bells/whistles - Chromium/Chrome is it.  So if we set default based upon
> popularity
> everyone should be watching:
> https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28287 - because once
> that is resolved, Chromium will be
> the new default.
>
> I have no problem with Chromium, I didn't mention it because it is not in
Fedora, if you prefer it to Firefox, let it be the default.
The important thing is that Fedora KDE users gets a good browser by
default, Firefox and Chromium are both fine.

Mustafa

>
>
> _______________________________________________
> kde mailing list
> kde at lists.fedoraproject.org
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde
> New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20150808/7f26719e/attachment-0001.html>