K.Mandla
October 2nd, 2010, 12:42 AM
I'd like to draw your attention to bug No. 602265 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/602265), which suggests not only updating some of the default bookmarks in Ubuntu's rendition of Firefox, but suggests adding a link to this site in a default installation.
You may or may not have noticed that a clean installation of Ubuntu links only to a support site, which amalgamates a number of resources into a common page. This is true for as far back as I can remember, and it appears that Ubuntu 10.10 will be the same.
Personally I believe, and some of the other staff members here agree, that a site as large and as influential as the Ubuntu Forums deserves a more prominent placement than that.
In a larger sense, this is not a new idea: Any number of distros link directly to support sites and help pages from directly within Firefox's bookmarks. No doubt you've seen such links in other distros.
Either way, as a forum member you have probably given help or been helped by this site; introducing new users to the forums as part of their initial Ubuntu experience would give them a chance to receive the same help and sense of community that we all enjoy. A direct link as a default bookmark would encourage that.
You may or may not have noticed that a clean installation of Ubuntu links only to a support site, which amalgamates a number of resources into a common page. This is true for as far back as I can remember, and it appears that Ubuntu 10.10 will be the same.
Personally I believe, and some of the other staff members here agree, that a site as large and as influential as the Ubuntu Forums deserves a more prominent placement than that.
In a larger sense, this is not a new idea: Any number of distros link directly to support sites and help pages from directly within Firefox's bookmarks. No doubt you've seen such links in other distros.
Either way, as a forum member you have probably given help or been helped by this site; introducing new users to the forums as part of their initial Ubuntu experience would give them a chance to receive the same help and sense of community that we all enjoy. A direct link as a default bookmark would encourage that.