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While 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).
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> There was no instance of Eich's views ever influencing anything on his job, and no single instance or evidence of any problem with his job. Maybe not direct instance. But if I were at Mozilla, I would have resigned because of him. I mean, Eich was giving money to people campaigning for removing civil rights from people based on their sexual orientation. That's not a small thing - if it was race instead of sexuality…
My problem is that the law isn't enforced evenly. Either you are allowed to discriminate based on race/creed/sexuality/politics or you aren't. As it stands, the BBC can discriminate like this: >A range of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television departments, programmes, and radio stations are currently offering highly desirable, paid internships, but white people are prohibited from applying. http://www.expr…
> Either you are allowed to discriminate based on race/creed/sexuality/politics or you aren't.
That's not what the law says. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents
The Equality Act allows people to discriminate if it's a proportionate way to achieve a legitimate aim.
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/discrimination/what-are-th...
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"He resigned of his own volition..." Yeah, I'm sure he just up and decided to resign with zero pressure from political insiders and the flash mob causing outrage. That's probably what happened.
I for one commend Eich, for putting on his big boy pants and owning the consequences of his actions. He held an unpopular view, acted on it, and people weren't happy with him. Far better to step down and let the organization right itself, than to try and hold onto his position and his retrograde views simultaneously. Shows real class.
Isn't this the plot to every dystopian story ever told ("conform, or else")?
As a lefty, I understand the motivation, but disagree with it- it will never work; you will never change a persons values (positive or negative) via public shaming, all you will do is force the 'undesirable attitudes' underground. As a member of a 'disadvantaged minority', I'd rather have bigotry out in the open and act accordingly. If Trump has as a silver lining, it is dragging all the latent bigotry into the light.
edit: I always like to compare Mozilla to Dropbox. In the immediate aftermath of Eich being forced out, the same boycott mob tried to pressure Dropbox into removing Condoleezza Rice from its board for being a 'war criminal'. In contrast, Dropbox's board didn't blink- they called the bluff and showed unequivocal support for Ms. Rice with a firm "No" and that was the end of it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this remove Safe Browsing? Not a good idea.
Yeah, seems like it: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/re... and https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/commit/9163f6e... and https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/re... That is a very bad idea. I sympathize with the idea of the project, but please think twice before meddling in security things. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9779990 I filed an issue to exp…
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If I could reliably run a newer OS on an 8-year-old iMac, I would. But since I can't—and because the only thing I use the machine for is web browsing—the relevant question is which browser will be the safest.
El Capitan runs on mid 2007 and newer iMacs, no?
For those who want to take up a challenge - fork a version of Chrome Android with extension (aka AdBlock) support.
Hey guys, I'm the developer. I was really surprised to see the number of stars on GitHub suddenly skyrocket, and I think I found why. Thank you all for your interest in my project! Feel free to make an issue (for questions, suggestions, or bug reports) or a pull request anytime. I might respond to a few more comments here before calling it a day.
> Disable JavaScript dialog boxes from showing when a page closes (onbeforeunload events) Bypasses the annoying dialog boxes that spawn when a page is being closed That seemed pretty random, and not related to the ultimate goal of the project. Are there other normal features that are disabled, that don't relate to Google at all?
> a freeware web browser, and an implementation of Chromium by SRWare of Germany. It primarily aims to eliminate usage tracking and other privacy-compromising functionality that the Google Chrome browser includes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron)
First released 8 years ago: https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
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It's funny how corporate marketing works. For a long time I used to really love their products and their processes. Maybe it was when they got rid of "don't be evil" but at some point they started turning into just another corporation. A corporation with a ton of resources and a ton of people's information. Anyway I don't want to go into a rant but lately everything they do even the open source stuff is just to furth…
Maybe I'm stretching a bit, but Snowden was the nail in the coffin. Even if you are American, it is very hard to define evil in a such a way to defend their participation in PRISM. That code of conduct just make it worse they were caught red handed, and I can very much understand people who completely lost their trust in the company.
Sure they make $150K/year+, and so did Snowden. Sure they can live in Silicon Valley and take a google bus to their SF flat, sure so what? There will come a time, when all these over-paid fascist's who work for Google-etc, will be seen for what they are, traitors to their society. Enablers of Fascism in the USA.
Most people who work for the CIA/NSA, especially technical people are thrilled to work with the smartest and best and brightest, but so did Hitler put together the smartest and brightest, and by way of "operation paperclip" they were brought to USA to create NASA, and what is now NSA/CIA.
Eventually these elite overstep their bounds of humanity and decency. Then they slip into hell as they deserve.
The common response here on HN is well if your honest you have nothing to lose. What they really mean is that if you ride a google bus to work, and wear a badge you have nothing to fear. The truth is if your just a regular person going about his/her personal business you have a lot to fear. Most of the data sold by GOOGLE is used for criminal purposes. For instance police seizure of personal property in USA now exceeds that stole by 'criminals'. Who are the biggest criminals in the USA? Well they're are own government. Who enables these criminals? Who provides the data, names and addresses of people to rob, rape, and imprison? Google, Microsoft, Oracle, ... you know who.
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Are you running the multiprocess Firefox build? The speed improvements with that version are insane.
If only Firefox used a native GUI on the mac. I really don't like Safari. But I also value consistency: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/04/why-i-use-safari-instead-of... .