Murray Cumming wrote: > Unfortunately, I think we have lost the battle to get Epiphany installed > as the default browser on popular Linux distributions. The Firefox brand > was just something that they couldn't do without. > > So, how do the Epiphany developers see their role now? Is Epiphany now > just a way to show what Firefox should do, or are you motivated by the > needs of the few users who do use it, via the few distros that default > to it? > > Personally, I think it's time instead to fix Firefox as much as > possible, as difficult as that is.
Epiphany has been ousted by Firefox in distros. Yet so has Firefox, in a manner of speaking. The Mozilla Corporation produces binaries, but they go unused as distros ship their own binaries, and our install base far outnumbers theirs. So, as a result of this, Firefox has now extended to the Linux community an olive branch, or a carrot so to speak. We now have a very strong say in what goes into the linux versions of Firefox. But we do need manpower as there is a lot of work to be done. While I am not going to tell anyone to give up on Epiphany and move to Firefox, I very strongly believe that the changes people want for integration with Firefox will get into Firefox if people do the work. I have been personally involved with the Mozilla Corporation and have been making headway in this field. I'll be giving a presentation on this topic at the upcoming Red Hat Summit in San Diego in May. I encourage anyone who is sincerely interested in this to do so. I'll be glad to review patches in upstream Firefox, or to help out in any way possible. _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
