GUADEC 2017 - Michael Catanzaro - Please Use GNOME Web
Channel: GUADEC
Date: 2018-07-23

We apologise for the sound quality in this talk -- the audio recorder that was connected to the microphones suffered a fault

The web browser is indisputably the single most important component of any operating system, and GNOME is no exception. Cross-platform browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome work well everywhere, but at the expense of platform integration. Cross-platform browsers cannot deliver a well-integrated user experience comparable to the Microsoft Edge or Safari web browsers. If you haven’t used one of these two browsers recently, you might not even realize what you’re missing on Linux. GNOME Web is the only browser that can seriously hope to provide comparable desktop integration and user experience, but it suffers from lack of users and contributors. Distributions that ship GNOME with Firefox, as well as GNOME contributors that primarily use other browsers, are seriously harming our effort to improve GNOME Web. To improve quality, we need all GNOME hands on deck to test regular daily usage of GNOME Web, report bugs, and attract new users and contributors.

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