Firefox for ever

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 19 15:03:23 UTC 2008


--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:

> From: Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>
> Subject: Re: Firefox for ever
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 12:37 AM
> Timothy Murphy <gayleard <at> eircom.net>
> writes:
> > Sorry to be mean, but why don't Fedora [KDE SIG]
> just admit
> > that no browser they produce is likely to be as good
> as Firefox?
> 
> * We don't produce Konqueror, upstream KDE does.
> 
> * IMHO Konqueror is really the better browser:
> - faster
> - integrates better into KDE
> - supports KParts in addition to Mozilla plugins
> - more standards-compliant (passed ACID2 long before
> Firefox did, and Konqueror 
> 4 also beats Firefox 3 at ACID3)
> 
> * There are also other practical considerations for
> shipping only Konqueror on 
> the KDE Live image:
> - It's the default browser in upstream KDE.
> - It's an integral part of kdebase, so shipping Firefox
> too would mean shipping 
> 2 browsers.
> - Firefox requires a lot of space on the live CD, which we
> don't have.
> - If you really want Firefox, it's just a "yum
> install firefox" away.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 
> -- 

+1 :)

Also 

 1) it does not require agreements
 2) puts no toolbars
 3) integrates nicely in KDE and works also in GNOME like k3b
 4) does not hog up the CPU like firefox does
 5, ..., etc 

Regards,

Antonio 




      




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