[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Fri Oct 1 11:36:07 CEST 2010

On 1 October 2010 11:17, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> 2010/10/1 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
+>> On 1 October 2010 10:44, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>>> Which extionsion a user wants to instaall should be left to the user's
+>>> decision. Make the install easy but do not install any extensions by
+>>> default. I've never used those extensions, except the developper bar.
+>>> Somebody told me to install Adblock and whatever, I did and FF became
+>>> unstable but not one second faster.
+>>> Maybe because I do not visit many sites with large ads and all that
+>>> bling-bling stuff.
+>>>
+>>> Anyhow, as a rule do not add any stuff by default that the user ought
+>>> to decide for himself, this is not Windows. We should not tell the
+>>> user what he wants to do.
+>>
+>> Then we shouldn't install neither firefox nor konqueror at all since
+>> that's a choice that the user ought to decide for himself...
+>
+> C'mon, a browser is not the same as a browser extension. Of course
+> there must be defaults. But installing browser extensions by default
+> is too much "default" IMHO. Same as with mail clients. You should set
+> a mail client by default but you should not add any extensions to this
+> client by default.
+>
+> wobo
+>
+
+Usually the more the extensions you have the
+heavier/more-ram/more-startup-time firefox gets (and the last time I
+used AdBlock Plus, about 10 months ago, it leaked memory...). Also
+it's not useful all over, I think I can do without it if I have
+noscript installed, (now what would you say if noscript is installed
+by default?).
+
+IMHO, I think no extra extensions should be installed by default, the
+user should make a choice of which ones he wants (and installing any
+extensions by default without the "user's consent" isn't ideal too, if
+it's going to impact the performance of Firefox).
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+