Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Status of google chrome and chromium

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:34:07 +0200
"A.J. Venter" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

> > > I wonder, however, what's so special about this browser that you
> > > took the premature decision to make it the default?
> > >
> > > IMO it is a bad decision to make a "foreign" (in the GUI/toolkit
> > > sense) application the default -- if GNOME is the default desktop
> > > for your distro, Epiphany is the only sane choice as it
> > > integreates best with the desktop.  Likewise for KDE & Konqeror.
> >
> This is a valid point - but definitely not to the point of religion as
> you're taking it. The most integrated app should be used when the
> available choices are functionally equivalent. At this stage, chromium
> is by far the most advanced browser on the market. It's the first one
> in years to actually do some real rethinking and innovation - ideas
> like tabbed processes, vm'd scripting, and sandboxed plugins make for
> a much faster (and far more importantly) a hugely more secure browser
> than anything else out there.

I found the way this paragraph started with "definitely not to the
point of religion" and finished with an almost religious tone :)

> But basically, the short answer is: what makes it so special is that
> it's the first really innovative browser in a decade and a half, the
> first attempt to redesign how browsers work to face the challenges of
> the web as it is used today... it's so special, because it's the first
> actual advancement in it's field since mosaic.

This seems like an odd statement. You really think nothing new was done
in 15 years before chromium arrived?

> All that said, this debate is off-topic so we should probably stop
> there. Which browser a distro ships or a user chooses is completely
> irrelevant  to this list - what is relevant to this list is only the
> licensing of the potential choices, as that is what determines which
> ones we should never even consider as potential candidates.

not entirely, imo the list is also for supporting each other - via
coordinatin and such things. Understanding why another distro chooses a
browser helps others decide if they want to include it/spend extra time
on it.

thanks,
kk

> Ciao
> A.J.
> 


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