Re: Case against Firefox in FESCo

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On 01/07/2016 12:56 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 08:38 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> With respect, "Web" is lacking many features that a workstation
>> user would rely on. It's not ready to be a default browser for
>> Fedora IMHO.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Do you have any specific feature requests? I'm planning bookmark
> sync support, but other than that I think we're largely
> feature-complete.
> 
>> I was just running it now to try to get a list of some of its
>> missing features, such as a JavaScript debugging console,
> 
> Right click -> Inspect Element -> Debugger, it's the same one
> that's in every WebKit browser.
> 
> But this is a very advanced feature. If you're digging around into
> the JavaScript debugger, you're more than capable of installing
> Firefox or Chrome or whatever browser you prefer to work with.
> 

Sorry, I probably could have found that if not for the crashes below.


>> but it quite literally was crashing on almost any operation
>> except clicking on a URL link. This is a Wayland Workstation on
>> Rawhide.
>> 
>> So yeah, really not feeling that this is ready.
> 
> Can you please file a bug report, or give me a link if you have and
> I missed it? It works great in Fedora 23. In my GNOME jhbuild
> environment there are some serious drawing failures due to a bug in
> GTK+ 3.19, which a GTK+ developer is investigating, but I'm not
> aware of any issues that could cause frequent crashes.
> 

I just filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296670

I can reproduce this trivially, so let me know if there's anything
else you need to solve it.


> Wayland support is mostly complete. We are missing accelerated 
> compositing (affects performance on low-end hardware) and
> clipboard support (copy/paste, that's a big problem) when running
> under Wayland. Both are about half-completed, but I cannot say when
> they will land.
> 
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