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[Mario Behling <mb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

the discussion is coming up from time to time. This is a good
overview. My additions to Julien inline

> == Keep Firefox ==
> + Firefox is well-known
> + Well maintained upstream and on Ubuntu
> + Many features
  + supported in many languages
> - Slow on startup
> - Memory usage
> ? Rendering seems slower
>
> == Switch to Midori ==
> + Small and fast
> + Memory usage
> - Upstream active but with limited developers compared to the 2 others.
> - Features limited
- problems with rendering some web pages

>
> == Switch to Chromium ==
> + Similar to Chrome, which begin to be well-known
> + Good interface for small screen
> + Upstream active, supported by Google
> +- Firefox have still more possibility and features than Chromium
> ? Maybe be maintained by Mobile Team
> ? Private data send ?

Privacy is a real issue. There is an alternative see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron
David Sugar mentioned one time, that the Chromium maintainers might
look into it. Now, that Canonical is changing to Yahoo as its standard
search engine is the team also looking into this aspect? Google would
still get information about what people search with Yahoo or Bing even
when Google is not the standard search engine.

- Mario