Vivaldi does minor releases as needed for security and bugs, so saying 1 major version behind is a bit coarse.
How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
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#32Please add Helium
qutebrowser would be nice too.
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#33Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
#34In defense of Vivaldi, it is actually up to date, just on the Extended Stable cycle: https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/releases?platform=Mac
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/main/do...
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#35Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Red/green is the most common way to show bad/good, error/success, etc. Using any other color scheme would just confuse everyone instead of only colorblind people... how would that be any better?
White with black text for success and black with white text for failure. People would figure it out.
So as I said instead of confusing a minority of people, we confuse everyone instead?
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#37I use Firefox, btw
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
White with black text for success and black with white text for failure. People would figure it out.
So as I said instead of confusing a minority of people, we confuse everyone instead?
There are always creative ways to present data. Dismissing the needs of a minority of people just because we don't share their visual impairment is lazy, and we can do better.
Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
#39Cool idea, but without longer-term tracking of how long each browser lags for each Chromium release, it's hard to draw any meaningful conclusions. It's also clear that in the case of major vulnerabilities, vendors would fast-track adoption of the patch. I would definitely include the fact that "major" versions of Chromium are released every 2 weeks. For instance, Vivaldi is on version 146.0.7680.218 that released thi…
More like 4 weeks than 2. https://chromestatus.com/roadmap
You are right, I misremembered this announcement [1]. They are switching from a 4-week to a 2-week release schedule this September.
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-two-week-release
Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
#40The problem is: we all are behind Google. Google sits in the driver seat here.
This is really, really bad ...
Edit: Ok, almost all of us. There are some non-Google browsers such as firefox, but Google dished out money to Mozilla for many years, which made real competition impossible.