On 2011-07-13 Bruno wrote: <snip>
The default home page of all browsers on opensuse points to a very
simple url, like opensuse.org/home
That page is so usefull that almost all users will appreciate it.
For example, it just consists of a very plain and simple search bar (like this well-known one: http://www.google.de/firefox/). Or, maybe even better, it simply offers a number of search engines, and it will, based on a cookie, from here on replace itself with that search engine --- or even a blank page (about:blank). <snip> Even if the idea seems nice, it has lots of limits. Firstly you will never see my browser here, that will not be my homepage :-) Nor for the openSUSE I install.
Next you get a cookie, but it's totally false assumption that the desktop is installed how would you differentiate livecd with new cookie each time, or desktop installed and then replace by another distribution by the end user ?
How accurate will be your stats based on biased sources ?
I also wonder - is this more accurate than counting the visits of a system to download.opensuse.org? I thought we had a reasonably accurate way of distinguising systems there? Not every system uses firefox (servers don't, lots of chromium, opera and other users out there). I do like the idea of having a nice custom homepage for firefox so in that regard I'm all for it. And, following manu, I can only ask if anyone here or on the artist list (CC'ed) might be interested in making such a standard homepage?