lør, 07.05.2005 kl. 17.52 skrev nodata:
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 14:32 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> Today we use the release notes as standard homepage for all browsers,
> instead of whatever is upstream default. Why do we do that, while
> constantly repeating the mantra "upstream!, upstream!, upstream!"?
>
> In my personal opinion, the release notes belong in "help" or something
> like that (even a shortcut on the standard desktop would be more
> intuitive) - not as the standard homepage in every browser.
Why should loading the Google homepage be more correct that showing the
release notes for the operating system I've just installed?
Because the average end-user (non-admin) is more interested in googling
for her friend's hollyday picures than reading a bunch of
non-interesting technical documentation.
Google has nothing to do with Firefox, except that it's a search
engine
that I might use with it. People that want to use Google can type
something in the search box.
And it is upstream default. People see "firefox" and expect to have a
google search with firefox tips as the standard homepage. Perhaps it
could be made into a google (or whatever) search with fedora tips?
> This confuses people, and addmitedly, the release notes
aren't that much
> usefull to the users as the standard homepage - especially in firefox,
Who does it confuse? Why were they confused?
They are confused because the browser looks like firefox but doesn't
behave like firefox.
> where the standard is:
>
http://www.google.no/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:nb-NO:o...
> which is simply a google search with some hints on using firefox etc.
>
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