On 17 Jan 2007, at 05:53, Paul Jakma wrote:
Slight tangent, but this really highlights why it sucks so badly to go with non-GNOME apps, particularly for such important tasks. There's no decent GNOME MUA, so the choice of Thunderbird can be excused on pragmatic grounds
Ahem... personally I much prefer Evolution to Thunderbird for most purposes, but let's not have that debate here :)
, but I really do not understand why we ship Firefox as the default browser: it really ought be Epiphany.
Customer demand, basically; they're always asking for new versions of Firefox, and wanting to know when it'll be in Solaris 10. They've never heard of Epiphany.
We used to patch JDS Mozilla to use the system (GNOME) proxies by default; I'm guessing we're not doing that with Firefox just so that we can still call it Firefox.
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