Re: Fwd: what is the reason for not making epiphany the default browser?

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 15:22 +0100, Sander van Loon wrote:
> I'm the person who started the discussion on the ubuntu-devel mailing
> list. Nice to see the thread got a lot of reactions. But IMO most of the
> arguments against using Epiphany as the default aren't very strong, some
> aren't even convincing at all like the popularity of Firefox.
> 
> I think it would be a good idea as well to implement a search bar in
> Epiphany. You can't expect that the average user will bookmark a search
> URL, modify it with the %s and use that as a smart bookmark to search.
> It's so hidden this way, a search bar would make it a lot more obvious
> and easier accessible for the (average) user.

Alt-D does not put the focus in the location bar like on
Firefox/IE/Mozilla.  This will annoy people.

Lee