http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/13202/
This raises a number of concerns:
- the EULA refusal doesn't prevent the user in any way from using Firefox, therefore EULA's is just noise added to the user experience.
- the EULA agreement would make firefox a non-free application which should be moved to multiverse.
- refusing the EULA would (legally) leave the user without a browser in the default install.
- EULA approval on first start would make firefox less usable when using the Live CD.

So far the options are the following:

- Keeping firefox as it is, even with the EULA.
- Switch to Epiphany as the default webbrowser.
- Adopt IceWeasel from debian (which is firefox, with logo and brand replaced)

You can find the full discussion here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/269656

*** If you'd like to vote for adopting Epiphany vote this idea ***

if you preferer to adopt IceWeasel vote this idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13201/

If you'd like to keep firefox as it is, vote this idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13200/

[-30 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #13202


]]> en-us Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:24:46 +0000 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:53:26 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13202/ Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:48:51 +0000 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:11:57 +0000 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:18:30 +0000
As for extensions, Epiphany does indeed have them. I believe epiphany-extensions is a package recommend now, but if not you can install that package via apt. Boom: Extensions!
Not Firefox's extensions, but useful things regardless. (Including adblock).

Besides that, I bet you less than a quarter of Firefox's users (not the vocal ones) actually care about extensions or have ever installed one.]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:44:05 +0000 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:58:36 +0000
Plus, if the 4 rights are granted and the only limitation is on the brand, I don't understand the problem. It's mozilla's work and it can be respected. I read window's vista's EULA when I bought my PC, and I choose not to use it more than needed. Since I need to do stuff that are forbidden by this license, I spend most of my time using linux KNOWING that if I wanted to I couldn't follow most of my linux habits using windows. I you disagree with the license then just change the package by yourself, but I love FF and I don't know why I should afford changing to another browser.]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:59:04 +0000
Maybe we should focus on making aspects of GTK more like QT, and vice versa. Then the apps will work regardless]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:15:39 +0000 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:21:10 +0000 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:23:29 +0000 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:34:56 +0000
I see that reaction a lot, but what functionality that a normal user would want is lacking from Epiphany? I'm not talking about Gee-Whiz features that the technically inclined would want, but about things that average users will miss.

Heck, I'd consider myself a technically-inclined user, and theres nothing worthwhile missing from Epiphany, as far as I'm concerned. It's preferences could be expanded a little bit, but theres about:config for the advanced users who want to tweak things.]]> Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:26:19 +0000
- No search box
- No drop down list in the address bar! (non-technical ppl use that a lot)
- Can't switch between tabs with Alt+Tab (don't try to teach non-techincal users to use Alt+pageup/pagedown)
- When I click the stop button the animation still keeps on going (ok, this is just a bug, not a lack of feature)
- Does not ask to remember passwords
- The address bar does not have focus when you open a new tab

If I used it for a whole day, I'm sure I'd find more..]]> Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:51:41 +0000 - No search box

Doesn't need one, since the Adress bar is the search bar as well. Less clutter, more space, less keyboard shortcuts to remember, and an easy way out when you try to use one of the other features from the adress ba, like autocomplete bookmarks, and it turns out you didn't bookmark them - just search instead.

> - No drop down list in the address bar! (non-technical ppl use that a lot)

Sure it has that, for URLs you've visited (ie in your browsing history), for Bookmarks (both by name and by tag), and for saved search engines. What else should it complete for?

> - Can't switch between tabs with Alt+Tab (don't try to teach non-techincal users to use Alt+pageup/pagedown)

You better try, because they will need it in almost any other application, whether GNOME or KDE. Also, you can't switch tabs in Firefox with alt-tab, that one switsches windows (similar for alt-pgup, I assume you mean control)

> - When I click the stop button the animation still keeps on going (ok, this is just a bug, not a lack of feature)

Sounds like a bug.

> - Does not ask to remember passwords

Sure it does, I have lots of them saved. Makes me wonder if your epiphany was broken somehow, since a lot of things that work don't seem to for you, and I've never experienced that.

> - The address bar does not have focus when you open a new tab

Epiphany focuses the web page you load in case you want to enter something there (think people using google as their home page). If you don't want that, use an empty home page (yes, this is not optimal).]]> Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:53:54 +0000 Switching to Epiphany would be a consideration then anyway, so maybe the choice will just be made sooner. ]]> Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:42:58 +0000