>Now, is your problem that they don't go out of their way to add compatability for random third party packages on a cloud based OS? You're not the target market, then :P
I'm not bothered by Google, Apple's, or MS' decision, really. It's just that answering "Can you run Firefox on ChromeOS" with "You can run Firefox on a Chromebook... if you run Ubuntu" just doesn't help anyone that actually wants to run ChromeOS.
Also, I'm aware that it's just flipping the switch. It's not, for example, the same steps you need to do to root a Kindle Fire, but it's still the same result: You still need root access to install(and possibly run) Firefox with ChromeOS.
I'm not sure what else you would expect though. The browser is the operating system in the case of ChromeOS. (It's even in the name!)
It would be like taking a system designed explicitly for Konqueror, for KDE, and all of the specific things that entails, and then turning around and wanting to reconfigure that system to use Dillo or Iceweasel or something else.
I'm not bothered by Google, Apple's, or MS' decision, really. It's just that answering "Can you run Firefox on ChromeOS" with "You can run Firefox on a Chromebook... if you run Ubuntu" just doesn't help anyone that actually wants to run ChromeOS.
Also, I'm aware that it's just flipping the switch. It's not, for example, the same steps you need to do to root a Kindle Fire, but it's still the same result: You still need root access to install(and possibly run) Firefox with ChromeOS.