Chromium by default?

Andre Costa blueser at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 21:06:25 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:07, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Valent Turkovic
> > <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> In the latest release [1] of Community Fedora Remix (yes, we are
> >> looking for a new name [2]) some flack we got was due to having
> >> duplicate apps; two browsers and two email clients.
> >>
> >> How about switching to Chromium only in our next release?
> >>
> >> Are there some pitfalls that would prevents us from doing so? The
> >> biggest issue currently is that Chromium is still not in Fedora repos
> >> (read why [3]) but Tom releases great quality packages and all his
> >> releases were rock solid so far.
>
> Can someone confirm that Chromium now runs flash and java correctly?
> One reason I switched to Chrome from Chromium some time back is
> because of these issues.
>

Flash runs as fine as on Firefox here on F13 x86_64. I just can't make it
run JNLP files properly, though, it opens them with gedit instead of javaws
(probably something related to MIME-type handling). Anyone experiencing
this? Test URL:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorialJWS/ui/PasswordStore.jnlp

Regards,

Andre
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