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[Glen Bizeau <gbizeau@xxxxxxxxx>]

My experience with other browsers in the past have always been that
they are lacking and playing catchup with FF and IE.

Plugins, Flash support and interface design to name a few. Do all
these lite browsers support the same functionally as FF does?

Glen

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:14:23 -0000, Glen Bizeau <gbizeau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Firefox is a browser that people "expect" to see on a Linux
>> distribution. I know the footprint is a little larger on it, but I
>> think we should stick with the more comfortable/familiar choice in
>> this situation.
>>
> Which people expect FF?
>
>> Put on FF, if someone wants to change it later, let them do it.
>>
> That’s what I would have said at one time (last week :) )
> But FF is seriously ponderous with 128MB of RAM and I’m rapidly coming to
> the conclusion that Midori is the way to go.
> Out of interest I tried Midori out on 'my class' this afternoon and they
> were quite happy with it.  These people are computer illiterates who are
> rather frightened of the things, though getting less so.
>
> --
> Steve
>
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