proposal: switch default browser on plasma spin to firefox

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Aug 10 15:37:16 UTC 2015


Felix Miata wrote:

> Rex Dieter composed on 2015-08-10 07:21 (UTC-0500):
> 
>>>> Based on our prior kde-sig meeting, we'd tentatively agreed to pursue
>>>> considering using a default browser different than konqueror.
> 
>>>> I'm proposing we consider using firefox by default instead.
> 
>>>> Secondary proposal: keep konqueror installed as a secondary browser
>>>> (and
>>>> file manager, etc).  It's runtime footprint is only ~6mb.
> 
>> proposal passes.  I'll start work on implementing it tomorrow (as well as
>> integrating f23-kde-theme).
> 
> Exactly what passed? Is Konq's mere 6MB going to be removed, or FF added
> as default?

Specifically (as quoted above, as primary and secondary proposals):

* install firefox and set it as the default browser (and handler of related 
mimetypes, e.g. text/html, x-scheme-handler/http, etc..)
* keep konqueror installed as a secondary browser

-- rex



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