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How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

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Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

#41

Please don’t use green/red schemes, it’s the most common form of colorblindness and it’s especially bad with such pale shades.

On the topic of accessibility, the contrast of the text in the "up to date" bubbles is very low. I can barely see the yellow one, let alone read it without significant eye strain.

Firefox's dev tools have an Accessibility tab where you can see warnings about low contrast and simulate different forms of color blindness.

Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

#42
post #3

I would like to see all "desktop" applications that use Electron listed and how big of a Chromium drift is there, especially how many applications are shipping runtimes with unfixed vulnerabilities.

I imagine that looks pretty bad. On the other hand, Electron apps often aren't running untrusted code, which makes it quite a bit harder to exploit.

Yep. JavaScript VM breakout, Sandbox breakout and spectre/meltdown side channel leaks are all tracked as vulnerabilities towards Electron while ordinary apps don't even have such security features.

Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

#43

Please don’t use green/red schemes, it’s the most common form of colorblindness and it’s especially bad with such pale shades.

It has text supporting the color, so it's fine.

Some of the text is undereadable on the background.

Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

#44

Please don’t use green/red schemes, it’s the most common form of colorblindness and it’s especially bad with such pale shades.

On the topic of accessibility, the contrast of the text in the "up to date" bubbles is very low. I can barely see the yellow one, let alone read it without significant eye strain. Firefox's dev tools have an Accessibility tab where you can see warnings about low contrast and simulate different forms of color blindness.

This website, while cool data, is just awful for me who is very red/green colorblind. Unusable.

Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

#46
post #19

This website, for me, it's named "List of all browsers I will never use". Yet another reminder, lawmakers US/EU/Anywhere else, should force all browsers to actively block fingerprinting.

> lawmakers US/EU/Anywhere else, should force all browsers to actively block fingerprinting.

That won't happen.

Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

#48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the topic of accessibility, the contrast of the text in the "up to date" bubbles is very low. I can barely see the yellow one, let alone read it without significant eye strain. Firefox's dev tools have an Accessibility tab where you can see warnings about low contrast and simulate different forms of color blindness.

This website, while cool data, is just awful for me who is very red/green colorblind. Unusable.

Sorry about that! I've fixed the colors and contrast now.

Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

#49
post #22

Is "uptodown" really the canonical download page for Comet? A point-in-time view is interesting but it's less useful than a graph over time. Would be fun to add the version shipped in LG smart TVs (hint: it's ancient)

It's not but given that Perplexity doesn't have an API and blocks automated downloads, I'm not sure what else to use. Explained in the docs: https://github.com/ShivanKaul/chromium-drift/blob/main/docs/...

Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

#50
post #49
post #22

Is "uptodown" really the canonical download page for Comet? A point-in-time view is interesting but it's less useful than a graph over time. Would be fun to add the version shipped in LG smart TVs (hint: it's ancient)

It's not but given that Perplexity doesn't have an API and blocks automated downloads, I'm not sure what else to use. Explained in the docs: https://github.com/ShivanKaul/chromium-drift/blob/main/docs/...

How does comet update itself?

Edit: approximately like so:

    curl -sS -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"request":{"protocol":"4.0","updater":"CometUpdater","updaterversion":"0","os":{"platform":"win","version":"10","arch":"x64"},"apps":[{"appid":"{42e10078-e377-4166-965f-c14ad958a146}","version":"0.0.0.0","updatechecks":[{}]}]}}' https://www.perplexity.ai/rest/browser/update2 | sed "s/^)]}'//" | jq -r '.response.apps[0].updatecheck.nextversion'
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