Web browser midori v chromium v firefox dependencies

[Mélodie]

Hello,

This happens in a Lubuntu install, version 12.04 fully up to date. I have Midori web browser, and Chromium-browser is the default installed.

I have setup Midori in the preferred applications gui setup.

When removing chromium-browser, the package manager installs Firefox, Firefox-globalmenu and xul-ext-ubufox. Once this done, when I want to remove firefox, it triggers installing Epiphany and a bunch of depends for it !

What I am expecting is removing a web browser, any of them, does not trigger the install of any.

My request is such : please let the users have Midori only or even no web browser at all.

Thanks for considering my request.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

You need to do something like "aptitude why chromium-browser" to find the culprit, but it's not a Chromium or Firefox bug that something is pulling it in to your system

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

apt-cache show midori|grep -i provide shows it provides www-browser, as does firefox and chromium-browser , so it feels like they should all be happy.

firefox does provide gnome-www-browser, but chromium-browser doesn't, so I can't see that's the problem

Do you have either of:
  djview-plugin
  gecko-mediaplayer
  mozplugger

installed?
They each seem to have an explicit list of browsers they work with in their depends?

[Mélodie (meets)]

To Dave Gilbert:

You are right, the package gecko-mediaplayer was installed, and once removed I could remove all the Firefox packages without triggering new installs of browsers.

I wonder why removing chromium-browser didn't suggest to remove it instead of triggering the install of other web browser ?

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

gecko-mediaplayer (1.0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
  ...
  * debian/control:
    - don't depend on specific browsers (Closes: #567169)
  ...