Re: Case against Firefox in FESCo

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How do I install Web?  I don't see it in dnf for Rawhide.

On 01/07/2016 08:53 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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>> On 01/07/2016 08:32 AM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
>>> Hi,
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>>> IMHO I say that Firefox lately gets problems, and we have better
>>> browsers in the repository already. We have Web, and pretty much
>>> usable.
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>> With respect, "Web" is lacking many features that a workstation user
>> would rely on.
> What specific features is it missing?
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>> It's not ready to be a default browser for Fedora IMHO.
> It is my daily browser.
>
>> I was just running it now to try to get a list of some of its missing
>> features, such as a JavaScript debugging console,
> It does, it's available via the inspector ("inspect element"), and you'll
> see Javascript errors right there, along with a console, etc.
>
>> but it quite
>> literally was crashing on almost any operation except clicking on a
>> URL link. This is a Wayland Workstation on Rawhide.
> There were problems with older versions of WebKitGTK+ in F23, but those have
> been resolved in updates. The number one crash I see right now is the OOM
> killed kicking in, and choosing the Web containers to kill instead of what's
> really eating RAM...
>
>> So yeah, really not feeling that this is ready.
> YMMV, but I'm very happy using it, along with Web Apps for my NAS' admin interface,
> Zimbra's work webmail, my Web RSS reader, etc.
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