WTF? Chromium (2016)
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WTF? Chromium (2016)
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Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#2I think that we are getting too dependent on this browser/engine (Chrome/Chromium/Electron and the many others derivatives).
This will create serious issues in the future regarding how Google is caring about respecting the market, the standards and their users in general.
Hopefully Mozilla has done a quite impressive work on Firefox those past few months and I personally don't see any advantages anymore for Chrome.
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#3The Iridium website and logo look so professional and "enterprisey" that it looks like there's lots of money behind of it and they're going to screw you. A barebones or even text-only website would do them a favour.
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#4Or just use Firefox, even if it is slightly slower than Chromium it's at least a browser that works for you not one that treats you as a pawn.
A Chrome monoculture is harmful, even if Google has the best intentions which I don't think they do - they definitely value their profits over an open web.
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#5I’d appreciate a curated list of software vendors who don’t run these kind of field tests/experiment/whatever on their users. Extra points if their products are not filled with bloated “”””analytics”””” crapware either.
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#6Or just use Firefox, even if it is slightly slower than Chromium it's at least a browser that works for you not one that treats you as a pawn. A Chrome monoculture is harmful, even if Google has the best intentions which I don't think they do - they definitely value their profits over an open web.
FWIW, at this point, the Firefox 57 betas are more responsive than Chromium for me. Not planning on looking back any time soon.
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#7Or just use Firefox, even if it is slightly slower than Chromium it's at least a browser that works for you not one that treats you as a pawn. A Chrome monoculture is harmful, even if Google has the best intentions which I don't think they do - they definitely value their profits over an open web.
>even if it is slightly slower than Chromium
Funny thing is Firefox Quantum is both faster and eats less memory compared with Chrome.
>not one that treats you as a pawn.
And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that doesn't treat you like a pawn. For MS, Google, Apple, that chinese company which owns Opera you are just a pawn.
(later edit : fixed the second remark).
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#8I think that we are getting too dependent on this browser/engine (Chrome/Chromium/Electron and the many others derivatives). This will create serious issues in the future regarding how Google is caring about respecting the market, the standards and their users in general. Hopefully Mozilla has done a quite impressive work on Firefox those past few months and I personally don't see any advantages anymore for Chrome.
> Hopefully Mozilla has done a quite impressive work on Firefox those past few months and I personally don't see any advantages anymore for Chrome.
I use nightly and it is pretty good. Quite a few things are broken in nightly in Android but I can use nightly as my main browser (besides for hangouts which Google has yet to implement). Edit, we have pocket on Firefox though so https://getpocket.com/blog/
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#9Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#10I think that we are getting too dependent on this browser/engine (Chrome/Chromium/Electron and the many others derivatives). This will create serious issues in the future regarding how Google is caring about respecting the market, the standards and their users in general. Hopefully Mozilla has done a quite impressive work on Firefox those past few months and I personally don't see any advantages anymore for Chrome.
FF Quantum is quite nice, highly recommended.