Valent Turkovic wrote:
In the latest release [1] of Community Fedora Remix (yes, we are
looking for a new name [2]) some flack we got was due to having
duplicate apps; two browsers and two email clients.
How about switching to Chromium only in our next release?
Are there some pitfalls that would prevents us from doing so? The
biggest issue currently is that Chromium is still not in Fedora repos
(read why [3]) but Tom releases great quality packages and all his
releases were rock solid so far.
Chrome/Chromium browser has more than 70 million users[3], much more
than Fedora itself, for me that proves it is a good and stable
browser. I have been using latest versions of Chromium for past few
months, and I have great experience with it. I use both Firefox and
Chromium, but it looks like most people would like to have just one.
Please post your comments here or in our mailing list and cast your
vote here:
http://polldaddy.com/poll/3283626/
[1]
http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/lucky-13/
[2]
http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/fedora-remix-name-brainstorm/
[3]
http://ostatic.com/blog/making-projects-easier-to-package-why-chromium-is...
[4]
http://www.tech24hours.com/2010/05/number-of-google-chrome-users-may-2010...
I'm in favor of keeping as many as possible available with Firefox
default. It's easy to change the default by visiting:
System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Preferred Applications
For one thing, Firebug doesn't work as well on Chrome as it does on
Firefox and isn't available for Galeon. There are other issues as well.
Here is a javascript snippet that took a day to get working because it
behaves differently on those three browsers (I found Konqueror to be so
buggy that I quit testing against it.)
var eventCatcher = {
run: function(){
dojo.body().onclick = function(e){
e = e || window.event; // event: W3C or MSIE
var t = e.target || e.srcElement; // target: W3C or MSIE
switch (t){ // t received the delegation
default:
break;
}
}
}
1 } window.onload = eventCatcher.run;
2 }; window.onload = eventCatcher.run;
3 } window.onload = eventCatcher.run();
4 }; window.onload = eventCatcher.run();
Look at the 4 variations of that last line.
Firefox: 1-4 work;
Chrome: 2 and 4 work;
Galeon: 3 and 4 work;
Only version 4 works on all 3 browsers.
Whose bug is that? Who can say definitively? IMHO Firefox is still
superior and for debugging purposes, irreplaceable.
As to the argument about "most users" I'm reminded that at one time IE
was on almost every desktop but that didn't stop users from moving to
Mozilla.
My .02,
Mike Wright