Bug#370098: tasksel: Desktop Environment installs both firefox and galeon

[Eduardo Silva]

>Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> No. Both epiphany and galeon depend on libxul, not
firefox. Something
>> else must have brought firefox.
>
>The desktop task pulls in firefox.
>
>> As galeon is more compliant with the GNOME HIG than
firefox, it makes
>> sense to give it a higher priority than firefox.
The problem here is
>> that firefox shouldn't have been installed.
>
>Yes it should; it's the browser a great many users
>expect to have installed with their desktop.

That means users will get 2 graphical browsers
installed by default...
I think that, while firefox is the most popular
gnu/linux browser, those who will want it, will be
able to install it easily, and remove epiphany. I
think epiphany vs firefox as default should be
discussed in terms of features and quality.

The biggest disadvantage of epiphany is the amount of
extensions there are for firefox, and the strange way
bookmarks work. The biggest advantage is the
integration in Gnome. For example, in epiphany, I
click a RSS feed button and it imediately is
subscribed in liferea. Until some time ago there was
no such thing for firefox (and the plugin I tried some
days ago didn't for me).

But it's your call, as I'm also ambivalent on which
should be the default, mostly because it's hard for
newbie users to imediately _know_ they can go to a
terminal and do "aptitude install firefox", let alone
use aptitude to browse the packages and find it
(aptitude needs a X frontend).

OH MY ... http://www.geocities.com/jobezone/index.html

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