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Re: Installing Firefox

 

+1 on google chrome, or just chromium as the open alternative (to keep the
standards).

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Alessandro Scarozza <xan.scale@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> i use google chrome, for exampl :D
>
>
> 2012/10/24 Alfredo Hernández <aldomann.designs@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> +1 for shipping LibreOffice.
>>
>> I'm not sure about Firefox, Web is quite powerful and versatile and
>> integrates the desktop very well.
>> Also, the GNOME 3 PPA should be activated by default.
>>
>> Regards, Alfredo.
>>
>>
>> On 24 October 2012 20:56, Alessandro Scarozza <xan.scale@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> if the first start up it's open an application that lets you choose a
>>> number of things:
>>> - add gnome3 ppa
>>> - to install LibreOffice
>>> - to install firefox
>>> - more...
>>>
>>> it's install application in 1 click
>>>
>>> good?
>>>
>>> 2012/10/24 Everaldo Canuto <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>> Maybe you are right, I don't have a big user base here but I see more
>>>> people around me using spins (Lubuntu, Xubuntu and Kubuntu) than the
>>>> Ubuntu. Also, at least in my circles people are using GNOME Remix, not too
>>>> much people but I like to think this number will grow up :-)
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, if we decide to keep Firefox and LibreOffice out we will always
>>>> can make some posts/tutorials about post installation tweaks.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> 2012/10/24 Nathanel Titane <nathanel.titan.e@xxxxxxxxx<nathanel.titane@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>> Quite frankly, what are the odds of 'human beings' using this spin?
>>>>> On 2012-10-24 2:19 PM, "Everaldo Canuto" <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, yes, that is why we are using Web (Epiphany) on 12.10.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But there's one thing that we can't ignore, the end users, for us
>>>>>> developers uninstall Firefox and use Web as  default is really easy, for
>>>>>> end users no.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do prefer Chromium and don't use office suite at all but I have
>>>>>> this feedback about GNOME Remix and the "normal users" claim for Firefox
>>>>>> and LibreOffice. So, we really must decide if we are going to hear our
>>>>>> users or if like GNOME/Fedora/openSUSE project "we will decide what is
>>>>>> better for them".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hope we take option one, otherwise we will just be a deb based
>>>>>> Fedora and stay far from "human beings".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2012/10/24 Nathanel Titane <nathanel.titane@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I second that.
>>>>>>> On 2012-10-24 2:04 PM, "Lance" <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I truly prefer that we stick with the "pure Gnome" vision as much
>>>>>>>> as possible :^)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I mean ..... um ..... well .... isn't a large part of the project
>>>>>>>> to help develop Gnome apps?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I rather prefer that scenario :^)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Lance
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> PS: Maybe we can
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --- On *Wed, 10/24/12, Everaldo Canuto <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx>*wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From: Everaldo Canuto <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-gnome] Installing Firefox
>>>>>>>> To: "Lance" <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>> Cc: ubuntu-gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>>> Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 11:50 AM
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I my opnion we should ship 13.04 with firefox, most people I have
>>>>>>>> installed Ubuntu GNOME says that no problem to manually install Chromium
>>>>>>>> but Firefox must comes by default. It is the same LibreOffice.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just created a blueprint last night so we can track some ideas for
>>>>>>>> 13.04.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ah, thanks for the type about Firefox installation.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2012/10/24 Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx<http://mc/compose?to=lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've been playing quite a bit, basically trying to script my
>>>>>>>> desired changes post-install, and I notice that just directly installing
>>>>>>>> 'firefox' also wants to install 'firefox-globalmenu' which may not be a big
>>>>>>>> deal since we use 'ubuntu-gnome-default-settings' but I'm finding it
>>>>>>>> preferable to use the command:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install firefox
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is this something we should think about going forward in Raring?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I hope I'm not just being a pain in the neck. I'm very impressed
>>>>>>>> with the simplicity of Mutter, and even more so with Metacity + Gnome panel.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I find that the classic (no effects) session runs quite well on as
>>>>>>>> little as an 1100 mhz CPU w/VIA P4M800 graphics & 1 GB of RAM ;^)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> No doubt Lubuntu will work just as well, but I've loved Gnome for a
>>>>>>>> long, long time and it's nice to be able to use what one loves.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Lance
>>>>>>>>
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