On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 01:12:40PM +0100, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
Dne středa 27. ledna 2021 12:52:45 CET, Michal Suchánek napsal(a):
However, the overall theme is - ignoring bugs - ignoring feature requests (minor, with patches provided) - removing features Overall the Chrome upstream is bad in relation to users, and the project is not small enough to take over maintainership or keep maintaining a fork. Others that maintain forks do exist so we should make use of their efforts to get better Chrome-like browser with the low-level features that are available in Chrome and without the blobs and platform availability restrictions.
I mainly use Firefox, which I like much more than Chromium. Opera is since its owner change no-go. Sometime I use Vivaldi. Good, but not fully OSS. Packman contains some terribly outdated version. Package from official web installs repo, it works well. Sometimes I use also Falkon. Seems to be working well, has usable ad blocker. I just wonder if its core has all security patches... I don't know Brave, might be I should try. Anyway, how alternatives do we have? For some reliable and secure full-featured tool?
There is some pretty good overview on https://chromium.woolyss.com/ Brave which was suggested in this thread is listed as opensource there, and although there were some controversies around Brave-specific features initially these should be resolved by now. My main use case for Chromium is the alternative rendering engine + media support that works better than Firefox for some sites and cross-platform availability of these (as opposed to Chrome). I would assume that other browsers based on Chromium provide that as well but unlike Chromium the upstream is willing to implement non-Chrome features that make the browser more usable. I do not use any of the Chrome-based browsers nor do I have insight into their security update policies, though. Thanks Michal