I use chrome and brave as my web browsers, but have to install firefox or epiphany because of this package.  It seems nicer to depend on the virtual www-browser so then the numerous browsers that are in the debian repos (not even counting my case of using third-party repos) could be used, rather than forcing someone to install a browser they won't actually use.

Obviously, this is a tiny feature request, but I also don't see any downsides.

Thank you for your consideration.

tag 1025748  + wontfix

thanks


Hi,

Am 08.12.22 um 16:05 schrieb Jon Daley:
# grep-dctrl -FProvides www-browser
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages
-sPackage
Package: chromium
Package: dillo
Package: edbrowse
Package: elinks
Package: epiphany-browser
Package: falkon
Package: firefox
Package: firefox-esr
Package: konqueror
Package: links
Package: links2
Package: luakit
Package: lynx
Package: netrik
Package: netsurf-fb
Package: netsurf-gtk
Package: qutebrowser
Package: sugar-browse-activity
Package: surf
Package: hv3
Package: w3m
Package: xemacs21-mule
Package: xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn
Package: xemacs21-nomule

of which most of them won't be usable. Or is there JS etc support for
(e)links. w3m. ...?


There unfortunately is no "X browser with JavaScript support" virtual
package.


Regards,


Rene

Hi again,

and besides that Llibreoffie basically runs xdg-open to open index.html
in a browser when pressing F1.

Also here I don't think elinks etc will work.  (Probably unless it is
explicitely set as default browser in GNOME etc, though)

Regards,

Rene

Right - so I would think any default browser would work in actual use (if
someone is using elinks as their default browser, they know what they are
getting into).  I'm just talking about the .deb requirement that is more
restrictive than what is actually needed, because many browsers would get
the message from xdg-open and run the user's actual default browser, and
not what is listed in the .deb.

Hi,

Am 08.12.22 um 19:59 schrieb Jon Daley:

Or just didn't know that LibreOffice helps needs JS and thus it does't
work (see my other reply).

There is still people running libreoffice not on any desktop but on a
window manager environment only. God knows which browsers they are
installed.


Btw, as you say you use chrome. You don't need a extra repo for it, it
IS in Debian - that's what chromium is.

(Actually I use google-chrome now, too because theer was a time where
the versions were security-fixes behind and now the profile is apparerly
chrome-only as chromium doesn't exactly get it anymore and I am lazy.
But still.)


Regards,

Rene

I don't actually use the help, and didn't know it needed Javascript -
perhaps the x-www-browser-js would be the right answer.  And I understand
it would be hard to fix, so thank you for your time.

For google-chrome - I don't remember now, but I think Chromium didn't sync
with Google Chrome on other platforms, like my phone? Once Brave added
syncing, I have switched primarily to that, and just use Chrome as my old
password repository, though I wish Brave had better password/encryption of
the synced/saved stuff.

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Would you at least consider adding morph-browser to the browser list ?
It is tailored for the Lomiri environment and based on QtWebEngine which
is based on Chromium.