[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Sun Oct 3 20:19:09 CEST 2010

+
+But are we always knowledgeable enough to be able to set up the system to
+use our choice?
+
+I confess to being a Mandriva Linux user for only 10 years but I have been
+an Opera user (and purchaser) for a year or two before that. I ALWAYS have
+difficulty when removing Firefox and replacing it with Opera as I can NEVER
+find all of the nooks and crannies of the system and various software
+packages which presume that Firefox must be available.
+
+I would be much happier to discover that a distribution had taken my
+choices seriously enough to check with me during the install and then make
+sure that my choice is properly and fully integrated. 
+
+Then perhaps we could highlight applications which expect no other browser
+than Firefox and proceed to educate their authors/packagers as to the
+importance of user choices.
+
+>
+> Majority of users do not want choice.
+>
+
+OK, that may be true, but when one of that majority decides to broaden the
+horizons of their browsing experience then will they magically be learned
+enough to be able to fix all of the integration issues for themselves? I
+suspect not.
+
+An install time selector screen and supporting scripts would be a very good
+starting point for a "Change Default Browser" wizard, much as XFDrake tries
+to hide the complexities of switching video drivers. 
+
+Richard
+