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| Author | Content |
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| azerthoth Jun 15, 2010 1:18 PM EDT |
We were looking at doing exactly that some time ago, we were the first distro to have Beryl (at the time) functioning OOB on our installer. We were looking at being the first to switch over to defaulting to chromium awhile ago as well. The upshot of the debate was, we were not even going to include it in default install until some questions were answered. How much of the 'call home' is left in chromium? Until such time as that can be answered (and alleviated) it is better to default to more secure than risk known or suspected risks. We have it in repository if people want it, but like ssh being present, having it active by default is irresponsible. It should be up to the user to decide how fast and loose they want to play with their data and security, not the distro maintainers. |
| dinotrac Jun 15, 2010 2:13 PM EDT |
Nice to see a little fire under the Firefox feet, though. Firefox has become a bit bloated, buggy and memory-leaky. Hard to recall that it started out as a brash young lightweight alternative to the humongaloid Mozilla monster. |
| Steven_Rosenber Jun 15, 2010 3:31 PM EDT |
Firefox really needs to address these performance issues. Both Javascript speed and basic rendering need to get faster, and the browser needs to be built so it lets go of CPU when there's no user activity. Chrome/Chromium and Opera can do this - Firefox needs to work toward it. |
| caitlyn Jun 15, 2010 11:47 PM EDT |
In addition to Chromium and Opera some of the lightweight browsers like Midori and Kazehakase have become more and more capable and are very much worth a look. Last I checked (and it's been a while) Epiphany had a Gecko engine but still was lighter and faster than Firefox. There really are some good alternatives out there if people bother to look. |
| rijelkentaurus Jun 16, 2010 12:04 AM EDT |
All above is true. However, let me say that Firefox is still WAYYYYY better than IE. Let's not poop on those who don't deserve poop. However, I do find myself using Chromium on PCLOS, and it's very, very fast. |
| hkwint Jun 16, 2010 10:20 AM EDT |
Quoting:It should be up to the user to decide how fast and loose they want to play with their data and security, not the distro maintainers. Hence, Gentoo? Quoting:There really are some good alternatives out there if people bother to look. Konqueror will be based on WebKit soon. It might be a nice 'Google'-replacement. |
| azerthoth Jun 17, 2010 1:29 AM EDT |
hkwint of course hense Gentoo, and Funtoo as well. While I have been known to run the odd test for drobbins once in awhile, when I start talking we in distro team sense, I am invariably talking about Sabayon. It's handy that I stay plugged in to upstream and sidestream (daniel still does some amazing work), but my work and love is for Sab. |
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