[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Wed Oct 6 22:11:57 CEST 2010

Marc Paré a écrit :
+>
+>>
+>> 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).
+>>
+>
+> I agree, I think the user should be in charge of the extensions. How 
+> many of us have heard people say that "Hey, I never installed the 
+> Yahoo! bar!" or "Hey, I never installed Safari!". Users are 
+> knowledgeable enough to make up their own mind on extensions. Browser 
+> use is generally a user specific preference.
+>
+> If Mageia is going to focus more on being a good KDE distro, then it 
+> should go along with the defaults with KDE -- Kmail/Konqueror. But, if 
+> Mageia is to decide on a "flagship" choice of browser, I think that 
+> most computer users these days know of Firefox and this would be a 
+> good/safe choice to use as a Mageia endorsed/default browser, but 
+> without any extensions pre-installed.
+>
+> The user can tailor his preferences later on depending on his/her 
+> browser choice.
+>
+>
+> Marc
+Personally I use Gnome, so I would rather that Mageia would not become 
+too KDE-centric.  (Actually I use Mozilla Seamonkey instead of Mozilla 
+Firefox, but that is another question.)
+If Kmail/Konqueror is installed by default, then the enormous KDE 
+libraries must be installed, all of which I (or any other Gnome user) 
+will have to remove.
+If there is a default browser installed, is much better if it is 
+KDE/Gnome agnostic, like Firefox.
+(i.e. does not require either KDE or Gnome.)
+
+As far as extensions go, I agree to leave that to the user.  With 
+Mozilla (Firefox or Thunderbird or Seamonkey), any extension can be 
+installed from inside the program, with a few clics.  Even saves making 
+any RPMs for the extensions.
+(I would make localisation extensions an exception.)
+
+- André (andre999)
+