From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Deprecated browsers in browse-url.el Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:26:58 +0100 Message-ID: <4CDA4942.5060604@swipnet.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289374037 24968 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2010 07:27:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:27:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: CHENG Gao , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Andrew W. Nosenko" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 10 08:27:12 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PG55L-0002rL-UU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:27:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42469 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PG55L-0000PR-9P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:27:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59091 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PG55F-0000PK-Vj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:27:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PG55F-0008QO-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:27:05 -0500 Original-Received: from smtprelay-h31.telenor.se ([213.150.131.4]:59071) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PG55D-0008PA-5M; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:27:03 -0500 Original-Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (ipb2.telenor.se [195.54.127.165]) by smtprelay-h31.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FFD3EB7C0; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:26:59 +0100 (CET) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.100] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnU6ANfX2UxV4S1kPGdsb2JhbACICpomDAEBAQE1Lbs+hUoEjWI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,177,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="149054044" Original-Received: from c-642de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.100]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 10 Nov 2010 08:26:58 +0100 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.2] (gaffa [172.20.199.2]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37EEA7FA05A; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:26:58 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132497 Archived-At: 2010-11-10 01:42, Andrew W. Nosenko skrev: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:11, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> From: CHENG Gao >>> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:15:10 +0800 >>> >>> I am wondering if some browsers should be removed from browse-url.el >>> since they are ceased projects for many years. Such as Mosaic, Netscape, >>> Mozilla, Galeon. >> >> Why is it a problem that these are still supported? What's the urge >> to remove them? > > While I see no problems in a half screen page full of Mosaic-related > tuning (despiete of clutter of space and confusion of non so age-old > user, which may be born after gopher become defunct), I _personally_ > see a problem in total absence of the more widespread browsers like > Chrome/Chromium or Safari. > The default for OSX is to use the system default browser, so that will be Safari if it is the default. On systems that have xdg-open (most GNU/Linux versions nowdays), the default browser is also used. If that is Chrome, it will be opened. IMHO, the way to go is to use the system default, not add more browsers. Jan D.