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midori appears to use the same plugins as FF


> Thanks, Dwain, but actually I think Julien's right and I do see more
> problems with the script idea I suggested.
>
> To the rest of the list, it looks like PCLXDE (from a separate email) has
> quite a good software suite. FWIW, I'm officially on board with Midori.
>
> Which begs the question, is there going to be a lubuntu-restricted-extras,
> and are separate plugins needed for Midori to support Flash and multimedia
> as mentioned by PCLXDE?
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Dwain Sims <dsims@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The fact that there has been this much discussion on this topic is proof
>> to
>> me that Jeff Stone's original idea is the way to go.   If you make a
>> hard to
>> change choice, many users will be unhappy.  But if you make a good
>> choice
>> with the default (Chromium or Midori or whatever) that will be OK, but
>> make
>> easy for folks to make a substitution or addition, most folks will be
>> very
>> happy.
>>
>> I cannot imagine not having FireFox on a system, but I know for this
>> distro
>> it would be a poor choice as the default.  I know enough on how to add
>> it
>> later, but that is not the case for everyone.  Let's make it easy for
>> those
>> folks who have strong opinions about such tools to make their own
>> choices on
>> such things.
>>
>> I continue to agree with Jeff.
>>
>> Dwain
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Julien Lavergne
>> <julien.lavergne@xxxxxxxxx
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I know we will not be all agree after this discussion. But I 'm
>>> collecting
>>> arguments for all browsers to make a decision after the discussion.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Julien Lavergne
>>>
>>> Le 2 févr. 2010 à 14:14, Glen Bizeau <gbizeau@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>>  I think this is one of those time when we are all going to agree to
>>>> disagree...
>>>>
>>>> Julien, if we go with Midori, can we put a script or shortcut on the
>>>> desktop that will install FF?
>>>>
>>>> Personally I think this would fit the bill, have a lite browser, but
>>>> give users who don't know very much a "simple" way to
>>>> install FF. I am thinking about the illiterate here, bot people like
>>>> us who know what we are doing.
>>>>
>>>> I'm fine with Midori since it seems to do everything FF does, but I
>>>> suspect if we have some way to track it, I think you
>>>> would see a lot of FF installs after the fact.
>>>>
>>>> Glen
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:40:49 -0000, Joe <xubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hi Steve,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I found changing preferences to identify as Safari was best for
>>>>>> online
>>>>>> banking. I think that's because Safari uses webkit too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Joe
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I know that trick, I have the User Agent Switcher plugin on FF for
>>>>> problems
>>>>> like that.  I’m just thinking of users who don’t know or understand
>>>>> about
>>>>> this.
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 22:32 +0000, Steve wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:09:37 -0000, <Support@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Been using midori all day long at every site i can think of with
>>>>>>> no
>>>>>>>> hiccups... going with firefox is a mistake..... if you want a
>>>>>>>> lightweight
>>>>>>>> distro you have to make the number one program used light weight
>>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>>> well... otherwise its a like system but you spend most of your
>>>>>>>> time
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> pokey program
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  I have found a couple of problems sites with Midori but they
>>>>>>>> appear
>>>>>>> to be
>>>>>>> known and can be overcome. Sites that claim the browser is
>>>>>>> unsupported
>>>>>>> tend to work OK, a few sites told me FF 3.0, 3.5 & 3.6 was
>>>>>>> unsupported.
>>>>>>> Online banking sites are another matter, obviously I can only test
>>>>>>> mine,
>>>>>>> which refuses to cooperate with Midori, Opera and FF 3.5 & 3.6.  I
>>>>>>> am
>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>> sure if this will be a major problem, would the target group for
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>> distro use online banking.
>>>>>>> The thing is, just how critical are these two.
>>>>>>> http://www.twotoasts.de/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=399
>>>>>>> http://www.twotoasts.de/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=168
>>>>>>> It looks like they are not going to get sorted any time soon.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
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