BrowserDefaults
Created: Date(2005-09-07T20:54:03Z) by MatthewPaulThomas
Priority: NeedsPriority
People: NeedsLead, NeedsSecond
Contributors: MatthewPaulThomas
- Interested:
Status: UbzSpecification, BrainDump, DistroSpecification
- Branch:
- Malone bug:
- Packages affected:
- Depends:
- Dependents:
- BoF sessions: none yet
Summary
Rationale
Contemporary Web browsers have useful default home pages that let you search the Web.
mozilla.org Firefox: [http://www.google.com/firefox Firefox Start]
gnome.org Epiphany: [http://www.google.com/ Google]
Internet Explorer: [http://www.msn.com/ MSN]
Safari: [http://apple.netscape.com/ Netscape.com (Apple edition)]
Opera: [http://alltheweb.com/ AlltheWeb.com]
But when you install Firefox or Epiphany for Ubuntu, its default home page is [file:///usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html a local file full of boring text]. We can do better.
My only other cosmetic gripe would be the default web browser home page. It is pretty ugly and scary as well since its a solid page of small text text text. In fact more than a single screen of text. You've got to scroll to read all the fine print. Confusing and techinical and fairly ugly text.
-- [http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2005-September/010499.html Pete Shinners]
Use cases
Scope
Design
Implementation
Code
Data preservation and migration
Outstanding issues