Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

[Joey Hess]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 03 juin 2008 à 10:24 -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit :
> > I think providing multiple alternatives for same task confuses the user.
> 
> Cool, are you finally willing to drop iceweasel from the gnome-desktop
> task then?

I won't try to argue with gnome people about more choices confusing
users. You've drunk that cool-aide too. ;-)

I'd *love* to not have two browsers in the desktop task.
The reasons firefox was originally included were:

- Name-brand recognition. Now eliminated by the mozilla project.
- Vast number of plugins and other market-share advantages.
- Some sites only work with MSIE and firefox. Or that have some features
  that only work with browsers claiming to be these. (Including google
  maps.) Horrible but true. This advantage also eliminated from iceweasel
  to the sad detriment of many of our users. (#401507)
- Not wanting users to have to go manually install it, especially as
  a somewhat scarily large fraction apparently install it by downloading
  a tarball.

On the balance, most of the reasons to install iceweasel by default have
withered away. A few still remain, and the user-agent problem is really
a bug in iceweasel, that should be RC IMHO[1]. I had been hoping that it
would be fixed. If it continues to not be fixed, I'll continue to
unhappily lean toward dropping iceweasel from the task.

-- 
see shy jo

[1] Maybe I'm just bitter that I had to fuck around with user agent
    switcher plugins to use firefox to do my taxes this year? I did let
    turbotax know that I won't be their customer next year if they
    don't treat epiphany and other gecko-based browsers equivilantly.
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