Choose another default start page

[Marco]

which does not consume ~1MB (!) of mobile data every time the browser is started.

______
The start page design will change with the next major design of the browser to a launch page similar to what's used by Chrome for Android and Safari for iOS7.

For now though, we could direct it to Google.com? That seems to be
pretty low load and is a good spring board for exploring and using the
browser?

[Marco (jermy-07)]

@Lina: I am new to this bugtracker but I think you should not place your comments in the bug description. Thus I have restored the old description and moved your comment here:
----Comment by Lina----
Hey the start page design will change with the next major design of the browser to a launch page similar to what's used by Chrome for Android and Safari for iOS7.

For now though, we could direct it to Google.com? That seems to be pretty low load and is a good spring board for exploring and using the browser?
---- end comment ----

[Lina Pio (linapio)]

Hey Marco - welcome to the Canonical bug tacker.

Putting in the design solution to a bug inside the description is a convention that the design team uses. We don't put our solutions inside comments. For more details, please contact <email address hidden>

Thanks,
Lina

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Adnane suggested using http://start.ubuntu.com, which I think is a good compromise for the moment, since it’s essentially an ubuntu-branded google start page.

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:webbrowser-app at revision 414, scheduled for release in webbrowser-app, milestone ubuntu-13.04-month-5

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+14.04.20140115.1-0ubuntu1

---------------
webbrowser-app (0.23+14.04.20140115.1-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * Bump version to 0.23 in preparation for the next major release.
  * Split the app into two executables: webbrowser-app and webapp-
    container.
  * Cleaner workaround for bug #1248620. Thanks Thomi for the
    suggestion!. (LP: #1248620)
  * Update the link to the list of overrides for B2G.
  * Add ignore rules for generated ninja files.
  * Use the local test server everywhere instead of writing temporary
    html pages on disk.
  * Fix FTBFS with Qt 5.2. (LP: #1258038)
  * Ensure the test server is up and responding before starting the
    tests, and use standard logging everywhere.
  * Re-execute web application in the dedicated container (compatibility
    mode for legacy webapps).

  [ Omer Akram ]
  * move the close button of the running activity to the left.

  [ Alexandre Abreu ]
  * Further separate the two webbrowser-app & webapp-container projects.
    (LP: #1246935)
  * Restrict url webapps pattern replacement depending on which part is
    being affected. (LP: #1240685)
  * Fix back forward hud actions.

  [ daker ]
  * Fix for uppercase urls. (LP: #1244329)
  * Fixed UA string for huffpost.com. (LP: #1223937)

  [ Timo Jyrinki ]
  * libqt5v8-5-private-dev will be dropped from Qt 5.2. qtdeclarate-
    private-dev 5.0.2 now depends on it until then.

  [ Adnane Belmadiaf ]
  * Change the default homepage to start.ubuntu.com. (LP: #1250995)
  * Fixed UA string for huffpost.com. (LP: #1223937)

  [ David Barth ]
  * Make sure we are redirected to the mobile version automatically, by
    presenting a mobile user-agent string on the /whole/ youtube domain
    (not just m.youtube.com). The string is also changed to the simpler
    ua string used for facebook.com. It gives the same UI, but avoids
    being seen as an Apple browser, which itself prevents rtsp/3gp
    content to be served to our browser. We (barely) support html5 video
    now.
  * Re-execute web application in the dedicated container (compatibility
    mode for legacy webapps).

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 435
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:37:19 +0000

[Giorgio Venturi (giorgio-venturi-deactivatedaccount)]

New design has on-boarding experience for first time user. Returning users will be displayed the New Tab content.
https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/presentation/d/1K5LehRSDUP0wQwB9zxUCRYAQ_LXR7OPiW5MyTni-W-M

[Giorgio Venturi (giorgio-venturi-deactivatedaccount)]

On-boarding descoped for RTM. At start, new tab will be displayed, with top sites will be pre-populated

[Mitchell (curious-mitchell)]

On mako rtm 5, there needs to be a better default page - currently the ubuntu branded search page isn't mobile friendly.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Mitchell, this is tracked as a separate issue, see bug #1252899.