Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Status of google chrome and chromium

[A.J. Venter]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>    At this stage, chromium
>    is by far the most advanced browser on the market. It's the first one
>    in years to actually do some real rethinking and innovation - ideas
>    like tabbed processes, vm'd scripting, and sandboxed plugins make for
>    a much faster (and far more importantly) a hugely more secure browser
>    than anything else out there.
>
> ISTR that people reported aspects of Chromium that are bad for users'
> freedom.  I don't recall what they were, but suppose they are right
> about that, and you are right about the underlying technology.
> What conclusions follow?
>
> It follows that using Chromium _as it is_ is a bad thing,
> and it would be good to make a user-respecting version of Chromium
> with  the same advances but put towards good rather than bad.
>
I agree, the good news is, one already exists - somebody linked it
earlier in this discussion, it's called Iron, and it's basically
a project from Germany to create a version of chromium with all the
aspects that are deemed invasive removed. I had a look and
I have essentially decided that Iron will be in the next Kongoni
release, though whether as the default is still up for debate. The
next official release will have 64-bit native support, and once that
is in place, there is really no reason not to provide it that I can
see.

Ciao
A.J.
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