Bug#682481: gnome-shell: epiphany shouldn't be the default browser

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 01:23:01PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le lundi 23 juillet 2012 à 10:46 +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : 
> > The default browser should be one that has at least vaguely credible
> > security support, IMO.  epiphany doesn't qualify, chromium or iceweasel
> > probably would.
> 
> Since this is security related, I’d appreciate to have the input of the
> security team on this matter.
> 
> I’d prefer to set the default as chromium, since it would avoid a
> security regression (lack of keyring support in iceweasel) and
> integrates a bit better with GNOME (since it uses webkit, although a
> different flavor). Is that OK with you?
> 
> (I am completely appalled by the fact we don’t even have ONE decent
> browser for GNOME in the archive, but there’s nothing you can do.)

I think that is a very good idea:

In Wheezy it is planned to always build the latest chromium release in
stable-security. This will ensure that there's always a secure and
technically up-to-date browser.

Cheers,
        Moritz