Remove amazon as a webapp, move to simple sensible browser call

[Bryan Quigley]

What advantages do we get from running Amazon as a webapp?

Instead provide a desktop icon with Exec=sensible-browser https://www.amazon.com/

and we save significant space on the image by using the already existing browser.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

The main advantage is that you can switch back to the Amazon webapp window
if one is already opened.
This is a key advantage for certain webapps, like Gmail. But for more
classic web sites, like Amazon or Ebay, the benefits are debatable.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Bryan Quigley <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> What advantages do we get from running Amazon as a webapp?
>
> Instead provide a desktop icon with Exec=sensible-browser
> https://www.amazon.com/
>
> and we save significant space on the image by using the already existing
> browser.
>
> ** Affects: webapps-applications (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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> Title:
> Remove amazon as a webapp, move to simple sensible browser call
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> Status in webapps-applications package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> What advantages do we get from running Amazon as a webapp?
>
> Instead provide a desktop icon with Exec=sensible-browser
> https://www.amazon.com/
>
> and we save significant space on the image by using the already
> existing browser.
>
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[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

@dbarth afaict the amazon link is the only reason webapp support is included in the livecd? Could be a good way to save some space since as you mentioned it doesn't make as much sense for Amazon.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

I have no idea why a new bug was filed that references this one, but that one is more advanced so I'll dupe this.

Bug #1688627.