UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
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Re: UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
#2"Googlification" has been my main reason for avoiding chrom{e,ium} until now. This could become my main browser.
IMHO Chrome has a better track record than Firefox when it comes to security issues, but Firefox has better privacy.
Re: UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
#3"Googlification" has been my main reason for avoiding chrom{e,ium} until now. This could become my main browser. IMHO Chrome has a better track record than Firefox when it comes to security issues, but Firefox has better privacy.
Have you tried Brave? I've been using it on the side and it's speedy and constantly improving.
Re: UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
#4While I applaud the effort that's gone into this, I urge people to consider (and use and contribute to!) Firefox. It's one of the last truly open-source browsers - both in terms of source code visibility (which Chrome(ium) has), and in terms of being able to contribute (which Chrome(ium) has not).
Re: UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
#5Great start. Although I think we need to reverse the trend of Chrome becoming the single browser web developers use. The amount of sites that unnecessarily[0] work only in Chrome is growing daily. And that's not even counting browser extensions. I think this, more than anything else, will determine if Chrome becomes the "Internet Explorer"[1] of this decade or not.
Skipping testing in IE is one thing. Skipping testing in Firefox is a sin.
[0] Unnecessarily, because cross-browser compatibility isn't hard, simply include CSS prefixes besides -webkit and use standardized JS APIs.
[1] Internet Explorer, a term for a closed-source browser that creates non-standard APIs that developers jump on, forcing either users to use that browser, or other browsers to implement the non-standard APIs too.
Re: UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
#6On Linux Mint I get
Error:Dependency is not satisfiable:libavcodec-ffmpeg56(>=7.2.4)|libavcodec-ffmped-extra56(>=7:2.4)
Suggestion -
The repo does not provide install instructions. For a highly not tech privacy enthusiast, I find it difficult to install for linux.
Re: UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
#7While I applaud the effort that's gone into this, I urge people to consider (and use and contribute to!) Firefox. It's one of the last truly open-source browsers - both in terms of source code visibility (which Chrome(ium) has), and in terms of being able to contribute (which Chrome(ium) has not).
Any opinions on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Moon_%28web_browser%29 ?
Re: UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
#8On Linux Mint I get Error:Dependency is not satisfiable:libavcodec-ffmpeg56(>=7.2.4)|libavcodec-ffmped-extra56(>=7:2.4) Suggestion - The repo does not provide install instructions. For a highly not tech privacy enthusiast, I find it difficult to install for linux.
Never try to install a package intended for Debian or Ubuntu on another distribution that just happens to use .deb files, unless you have experience dealing with package dependency issues and similar problems. Either use a package intended for the distribution, or use a binary, or build from source.
That looks like a version of libavcodec specific to one version of Ubuntu; that package will never work on Debian, another version of Ubuntu, or most non-Debian distributions.
Re: UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
#9Great start. Although I think we need to reverse the trend of Chrome becoming the single browser web developers use. The amount of sites that unnecessarily[0] work only in Chrome is growing daily. And that's not even counting browser extensions. I think this, more than anything else, will determine if Chrome becomes the "Internet Explorer"[1] of this decade or not. Skipping testing in IE is one thing. Skipping testin…
The thing about "Internet Explorer", is that using IE Edge, I often run into websites that demand I "Upgrade" to Chrome and won't let me use them.
Fudging the user agent however, allows that website to work perfectly fine.
Not testing in IE is one thing. Presenting an nonintrusive message warning you don't test in IE is another. Paying money to advertise your website, then, when I click your link, greeting me with a condescending "IE Users are idiots" type message that doesn't let me proceed, doesn't make me buy your product.
Re: UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
#10While I applaud the effort that's gone into this, I urge people to consider (and use and contribute to!) Firefox. It's one of the last truly open-source browsers - both in terms of source code visibility (which Chrome(ium) has), and in terms of being able to contribute (which Chrome(ium) has not).
Any opinions on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Moon_%28web_browser%29 ?
No good reason to run that instead of Firefox. It looks like their main motivation to fork was to preserve XUL and XPCOM, but since Firefox doesn't plan to keep those, almost no addons will continue using them; every maintained addon will update to work with current Firefox. And using an unmaintained addon is dangerous.