On 12/19/2017 03:24 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Chris Adams wrote: >> I thought that this was actually a violation of the packaging policies, >> but I can't seem to find it now; I only see the restriction on software >> the requires downloads to be useful. I think simply requiring Mozilla >> to change their policies is unacceptable, as this still depends on a >> third party to properly enforce such policies (and not have any security >> issue that could result in untrusted addons being installed). >> >> IMHO such behavior needs to be disabled by default in any packages >> shipped by Fedora for Fedora to remain a trustworthy distribution. > > This is the very least that Fedora ought to do, and it has to be done > immediately! > > In addition, for future Fedora releases, the default browser ought to be > changed to one with a more trustworthy upstream, e.g.: > * QupZilla (soon to be Falkon) [https://www.qupzilla.com/], > * GNOME Web / Epiphany [https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web], > * Midori [http://midori-browser.org/] (the WebKit2 branch snapshots that are > already in Fedora). midori is dead upstream. Likely it should be retired, but I keep holding out hope they will revive development. I definitely would not suggest more widespread usage of it. > In the interest of desktop integration, I would actually suggest using a > different browser on different Spins, matching the shipped desktop > environment (QupZilla on KDE and LXQt, GNOME Web on GNOME/Workstation, > Midori on the others). We shipped midori on the Xfce spin for a while, but people asked for firefox. kevin
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