Hello,

i am using Slackware 14.1 64 bit.in the past days i used Ubuntu,fedora,slax live cd etc..why most of the Linux distro's using Mozilla Firefox browser as default web browser? if you have idea about this could you please explain me.Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Stability!

You configure and use available proven pluggins. Slackware older updates have been moved to ESR by PV to provide a means to have a unified stable browser over time. Slackware -current still uses available Firefox releases. I use Ruarí Ødegaard's script: https://gist.github.com/ruario/9672798 to get the latest Mozilla Firefox release for my Slackware install. I am using FF 31.1 and just noticed a new release is available: Firefox 33.1.1

I am currently downloading that release for install of the package that ruario script creates from the binary.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

Google Chrome being proprietary kinda helps the case a bit, although I guess one could use Chromium, the open-source browser off which Google Chrome is built, as their browser, technically.

all of the above

while Chromium is not bad it is "Newer"
you could say that " the jury is still out" on it

the original Mozilla browser ( now a fork called "seamonkey" )
is a all in one suite
browser
mail
irc
newsgroup


by using Firefox
the USER!!!! can decide for them selves WHAT they want to use
thunderbird for mail
or any of the irc clients

Personally i LIKE Seamonkey

Cool, I've taken a recent liking to Chrome. Faster than FF, more modern than FF, has fully-implemented process separation (a non-responsive page doesn't freeze the whole browser), and it scores some security points because of sandboxing.

Hello,

Thanks for your explanation and time spending on my question.

--carl_cj

I have recently been testing Konqueror as a browser after hearing a comment on SMLR (Konqueror has long been my preferred file manager).

Its performance as a browser is quite good. If I could find some way to enable "web gestures" (mouse right to left to go back, left to right to go forward, and so on) in it, I would almost be tempted to make it my default choice. If it offered skinning and script control, even better.

Hello,

i think konqueror is more popular in kde desktop environment because it is suitable to that desktop environment.But FF always suitable if we use any desktop environment and it is very stable as onebuck said.it is just my opinion.

I like FF fine but I prefer Chrome in Linux. My order of preference is Chrome>FF>Opera with FF and Opera neck and neck I like them both for different reasons. I imagine most distros default to FF because it's OSS and a really great browser.

Mozilla is an Open Community, and they really do seem to try their best to be transparent and open about their decisions and inner-workings. In the age of the NSA, this is hard to come by, so it's refreshing to see a project attempt to be truly open sourced.

To me, Chrome has the stigma of being related to Google. And through the years Google has shown itself to be an information gathering powerhouse that regularly kneels in front of the NSA. A quick internet search will turn up many articles and emails relating to Google and the NSA's lovemaking.

I believe that is why many popular distributions prefer to default to Mozilla Firefox rather than NSA/Google Chrome.

Personally, I use 'dwb' because its a small codebase which is easy to read through and verify that the NSA has not spooged into it, and best of all, it uses vim-styled key shortcuts, allowing me to concentrate on browsing without having to use the mouse.

http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/

mozilla and opera browsers also carry google's payload and are primarily funded by google. safebrowsing is turned on by default in a new user profile (what the NSA used for ID'ing users) and I have yet to come across a Linux distribution or any other OS which changes that.

I doubt any distro setting firefox as default is an ethical choice, it's likely down to firefox having been around longer, producing proper releases and ESR releases when compared to chromium - which is just the base project for chrome.

In reality I can think of little reason for either to be the "default" browser. KDE's default should be konqueror, and gnome's epiphany(?). Other desktops can also select whatever they like. Someone who is running a *box wm or a tiling wm or whatever shouldn't really be concerned.

I can agree with this.

Google pays firefox to have Google set as the default start page. That makes Google a lot of ad-revenue.

I've not seen it said anywhere that Google has any other input to the project than that.

What do you mean by "Google Payload"?

You're making the same assumption as many - i.e. that the google sponsorship is just for setting it as the default search and home page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...rotection-work

google safebrowsing works by checking the URL's you enter or click on against a google hosted blacklist. What gets transmitted, stored and what happens to the data is quite easy to guess.

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Well,. this is what Yahoo has signed up for now.

I meant nothing against Firefox. It's not my favorite, but I find it quite serviceable. I'm a long-time, since v. 3, Opera user, but I am becoming frustrated by Opera's apparently choosing to ignore its Linux users; nevertheless, it's still my first choice because of its integrating an RSS reader and email client into the program, so I need run only one program, instead of three, for my most-used internet services.

Though I use many KDE applications, I don't use KDE as a desktop: too many sounding bells and clanging cymbals signifying nothing. I was more mentioning an oft overlooked alternative that performs much better than I had expected than making a recommendation.