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Re: Default Browser

 

midori i believe gives you the fullest web experience and still remains
light... it does support flash and plugins


> 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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