Iridium's stable release is based on Chromium v61 and Chrome is on v62. Sure they can boast about enhanced privacy, but I'm not so sure about security unless their base Chromium version is always up to date.
WTF? Chromium (2016)
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Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#12The fact that Chromium runs multiple processes is unrelated to any field trials. Chromium has always been multi-process; that's why individual tabs and plugins can crash without taking down the whole browser. Additionally, multiple processes are needed in order to implement sandboxing on Linux.
Field trials have long been a part of Chromium too: https://blog.chromium.org/2012/05/changes-to-field-trials-in.... They are used to experiment with different solutions or, sometimes, to allow a change to be quickly reverted in the field if it's causing a problem. You can manually enable/disable several of these on chrome://flags/ (although it's not advised).
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#13Or 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).
>And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this.
Not any more, I recently discovered that my firefox at work got infected with Firefox Pioneer. I didn't install that, it just appeared on list of my addons, no warning or anything. I heard on Reddit about similar cases from a few months ago, people got Safe Browsing installed without their knowledge. Both are signed addons from Mozilla.
https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/firefox-pioneer/
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#14Or 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).
>> not one that treats you as a pawn.
> And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this.
Do you mean to say Firefox treats you as a pawn? How so?(Genuinely interested)
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#15https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=318572 is the issue
Status: WontFix
Closed: Nov 2013
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#16I 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.
It seems crazy to me how may projects depend on Chromium and V8 directly.
Hopefully with Firefox's new improvements some of this will change.
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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).
>> not one that treats you as a pawn. > And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this. Do you mean to say Firefox treats you as a pawn? How so?(Genuinely interested)
I read it as a typo, where the author intended to say: FireFox is the only browser that does [not do] this.
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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).
>And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this. Not any more, I recently discovered that my firefox at work got infected with Firefox Pioneer. I didn't install that, it just appeared on list of my addons, no warning or anything. I heard on Reddit about similar cases from a few months ago, people got Safe Browsing installed without their knowledge. Both are signed addons from Mozilla. https://addons.mozilla.or…
>at work
Is youre IT group policy doing this?
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#19Or 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).
You have a very narrow definition of "browser." Try xombrero, vimb, Luakit, uzbl or good old w3m.
Re: WTF? Chromium (2016)
#20Or 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.
Firefox is not slower, it's just that most websites are optimised and tested only or mainly under Chrome.
We are slowly getting back to the way things were with IE, but I hope that Mozilla won't give up and switch to blink or webkit like everybody else.