Re: Galeon2 extensions plan

<quote who="Petter Sundl?f"/>

> Luis Villa wrote:
> > Note that basically all major distros[1] /want/ a simplified galeon, and
> > believe that their users really don't want 10,000 options. If the major
> > distros aren't shipping any plugins it's probably a good sign that a
> > sane set of base options has been chosen.
> 
> Hold on, where have you seen this stated? If that's true, than the only
> reason Galeon wasn't included as the default browser in most desktop
> OS's is that it was too complicated?

Red Hat would like to ship Galeon as their default browser.

But they do not. :-)

> As far as I understand, Mozilla was the default in a lot of distributions,
> and it's just as, if not more, complicated as Galeon.  Just an
> observation.

Mozilla's releases compare favourably to Galeon 1.2.x, depending on who you
ask.

- Jeff

-- 
    "Think video. Think text flickering over your walls. Think games at     
    work. Think anything where a staid, link-based browser is useless."     
          "This person wrote for Ab Fab, right?" - Rich Welykochy           


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