Let's go with Firefox by default

Hi, I was going to prepare a long thread with advantages / disadvantages between Firefox and Chromium, but let's make it a bit short :-) If I am lazy, the logical choose is to keep Chromium, because Ubuntu (Canonical) already decided to switch to it. So, much of the work from Ubuntu will go to Chromium instead of Firefox. However, many arguments is are favour of Firefox in our case : - Good behaviour on old hardware : thanks to your tests, Firefox seems to behave well on old hardware. I also saw it on my own testing system. It's difficult to say if 1 is better than another one, but a 1 tab use of Firefox seems a bit better, and many users still use only 1 tab :-) - PowerPC support : Firefox support is still limited, but Firefox exists on powerpc. No need to advertise the fact that we have 2 different browsers. - Even if Chromium is open source, it's still very close to Chrome and Google. In a politic view, it's better to have a product managed by a foundation (still, they have a lot of money from Google ...). - Customization support : You can add bookmarks and other customization to Firefox. Chromium doesn't have it (yet ?). There is also (still ?) a module to install flash support. - No "It's dead Jim" bug. It may be fixed in the future, but I'm not sure it will be critical enough for Canonical to but a lot of effort to fix it. It mostly affects us only, not Ubuntu. - Quick update of new upstream versions (I hope it will be the same without Canonical support). - The next big UI update will be great ! (I know, it's not a real argument :-)) Still, Chromium has advantages : - Canonical support (it's my main concern about the switch). - Native webapp (I didn't find a way to launch webapp in Firefox). - Many apps in the Marketplace (the Mozilla one is still young). I still think that the difference between the 2 are not so big, and I would like to make easy to switch from one to another, so everyone will be happy. If people have concern about this switch, it's time to speak :-) I don't plan to come with this discuss again for 14.04 (except, if there is a big problem using Firefox during 13.10). Regards, Julien Lavergne