On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/11/2016 02:13 PM, Nikos Roussos wrote: >> >> >> On January 11, 2016 8:28:43 PM GMT+02:00, Josh Boyer >> <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Nikos Roussos >>> <comzeradd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> A few reasons, in my own personally believed order of >>>>> popularity for Chrome: >>>>> >>>>> 1. Media "just works". Netflix, amazon video/music, >>>>> spotify, etc. >>>> >>>> Netflix "just works" on Firefox too (due to EME support). >>>> Spotify is >>> flash. If you install flash-plugin it works on Firefox too. >>> >>> Having to install flash is a terrible thing these days. Also, >>> Firefox as shipped in Fedora out-of-the-box doesn't work for >>> this because Fedora out-of-the-box doesn't have the codecs. >>> Chrome bundles them, so end users that don't care get them and >>> "it works". >> >> True, but are you sure most users want this? My feeling is that >> Flash media is something most users try to avoid. >> > > You give users too much credit. Users only care if the thing they are > trying to do actually happens. Whether or not it happens via flash is > so far down the list it might as well be ignored, until the inevitable > security issue. Normally I'd agree, but Flash is special. If it ever consciously held a special place in one's heart, it's now migrated elsewhere. Part of the colonic I give to Chrome, is disabling its built-in Flash. Last year both Chrome and Firefox temporarily disabled Flash remotely due to severe vulnerabilities, and many users were made very aware of what Flash provides, because for a while it wasn't being provided. -- Chris Murphy -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
