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An alternative suggestion...

Posted Oct 30, 2008 20:06 UTC (Thu) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048)
In reply to: An alternative suggestion... by niner
Parent article: Directions for GNOME 3.0

Just tried that on my KDE desktop and it worked exactly like you described. I'd not be surprised if the same were already possible on Gnome, too.

IIRC in Gnome it has worked that way with Epiphany for ages.
With Firefox, on the other hand, it creates a link on the destination folder, which IMHO is not as useful as downloading the file or image.

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Posted Oct 30, 2008 21:57 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Epiphany works a lot better for a lot of things in Gnome. Stuff like that. And besides that it's a bit faster to start up and uses less RAM then firefox.

And for older systems you have the option to use Webkit.

Oh, and it doesn't abuse "Fsync" like Firefox does.

OF course, Firefox has lots more capabilities. But all I want is a browser.

An alternative suggestion...

Posted Nov 4, 2008 3:20 UTC (Tue) by Ze (guest, #54182) [Link]

Just out of interest how does firefox abuse fsync?