I have just updated to newest Ubuntu. Here are some points of interest:
Thes removed the shutdown option from system menu. You now HAVE to use the stupid applet. IS this a GNOME or an Ubuntu decision. Personally i dont like this applet for shutting down. I always used the system menu. The applet looks so [...]
I have read the comic about Googles new chrome browser and I must day I am impressed. It targets some points I like to see in browsers:
They call it “omnibar” – others say Opera was the first – personally I know it from Epiphany for ages – and Epi still is ahead in the implementation [...]
I had the experience that on GNOME on OpenBSD strangely Firefox is started as default. This shoudl not be the case as Epiphany is the default. One way to set it is when you start “gconf-.editor” and browse to the section where you might alos find firefox:
and change it right away to “epiphany %s”. This [...]
Some other things I like to critisize:
This is a good thing: Actually FF now uses Epiphanys model of accessing (via “Smart Location bar” ) bookmarks – bookmarks, tags and history are searched while you type. Also bookmarks now get tags instead that they are stored in folders. Whats funny about that is that this was [...]
I have taken a deeper look into Ubuntu. Those are some things I find weird:
Firefox is the default browser. I think this is ugly, but anyway… if you try to install Epiphany the problem is you can only install Epiphany without the extensiosn via the graphical installer. As this is the suggested method this means [...]
People like to search – and often people like to search for specific stuff – like a wikipedia article, the Amazon product base, a movie in IMDB or in social bookmarking. I have thought about that for a while. Firefox lets you install search plugins to be able to select this more comfortable and Epiphany [...]
Ok Adam wanted to have some feedback about his latest post about Apples and Oranges. I will take on this task. Lets start with: I could not disagree more:
Adam thinks that Microsoft is successful because its monolithic
and that Linux should be, also. I don’t think that would be the right way. First of all [...]
Why did we do this? Why didn’t we continue to present Firefox as the front row browser? Well its simple: We are THE GNOME distribution. We want to show the latest and greatest in GNOME software – and to experience what a real GNOME desktop looks and feels one should really should recommend the official [...]
I am still a bit split if Firefox or Epiphany is the better choice. One possibility to block ads without having to rely on an adblock extension which is not automatically built by upstream epiphany extentions is to use a ad blocking Javascript as a proxy address. There is a pretty good site here: http://www.schooner.com/~loverso/no-ads/ [...]
I hate things to be only available in CVS, like the Adblock extension for Epiphany web browser. Some developers either think everybody likes to download fom CVS or think their software is not worth publishing (yet). I understand that if people just start, but I think it is strange if things keep being so for [...]
