Firefox Preinstalled - PC-BSD Forums

Mister Zig · #1 05-29-2006, 10:27 PM

I was surprised not to find Firefox in PC-BSD, suggest it is included in the next release.

1000k · #2 05-29-2006, 11:32 PM

As long as I can remove it if I want to... :lol:

Charles · #3 05-29-2006, 11:33 PM

This would be against our philosophy, as we want a barebone system with the minimum software installed. Just one browser, no office suite, etc...

Dingens · #4 05-30-2006, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by Charles

This would be against our philosophy, as we want a barebone system with the minimum software installed. Just one browser, no office suite, etc...

yes, a good idea, but 1.1 ist not minimum installed!

bleach · #5 05-30-2006, 06:51 PM

I totally agree with Charles. Konqueror is very good imho. When you use it with KDE it's a Candy.

Charles · #6 05-30-2006, 09:05 PM

I didn't mean Konqueror was good

dracheflieger · #7 05-30-2006, 11:52 PM

Konqueror is really pretty good...it's just not as extensible as Firefox.

Firefox extensions I use can FTP, handle all my gmail accounts in addition to yahoo mail, dictionary lookups, translations, digg notifications, RSS reader, mulitiple tab options, ip tanslation and web page mailing...there are thousands more but these are some of the ones that come in handy.

Puffball · #8 06-01-2006, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by Charles

This would be against our philosophy, as we want a barebone system with the minimum software installed. Just one browser, no office suite, etc...

Is your philosophy, by any chance, to be just like Windows? A barebone system with minimum software? I don't think the BSD developers have any similar taste in distribution. Boot up the FreeBSD 6.1 disk and you'll find quite a bit of apps.

But who cares about them. Thats their project. PC-BSD can be developed any way the developers want it to be.

If you can agree with that, then you are putting a lot of faith in the "built on rock solid FreeBSD" mantra. Windows ideas will only fuck that up. A bit.

bleach · #9 06-01-2006, 08:35 PM

Sry Charles, lol, a logical mistake there

Anyway don't provoke Puffball. Firefox is GTK, it loads too long, for me anyway (yeah yeah Konq is preloaded with KDE). I mean you have a PBI for it, that should does it. Please do not have Firefox preinstalled. Lots of ppl would have to remove it then

PCBSD is good as it is, no preinstalled stuffage

That's what it's one of many great plusses, I hardy had to do any configuring after the install! Love it.

Many would disagree of course. There a PBI available to you.

Puffball · #10 06-01-2006, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by bleach

Sry Charles, lol, a logical mistake there

Anyway don't provoke Puffball. Firefox is GTK, it loads too long, for me anyway (yeah yeah Konq is preloaded with KDE). I mean you have a PBI for it, that should does it. Please do not have Firefox preinstalled. Lots of ppl would have to remove it then

PCBSD is good as it is, no preinstalled stuffage

That's what it's one of many great plusses, I hardy had to do any configuring after the install! Love it.

Many would disagree of course. There a PBI available to you.

Jesus, its not that its a logical fellocy so much as its ripped straight from the Microsoft books. It has nothing to with who's provoking who, as its an opinion. Don't apologize, or whatever the hell 'sry' is; its called diversity.