![]() " stop using it NOW", and Fedora should consider using the Shipped a Chromium release, noting that a number of them are said to beĪctively exploited on the net. He includedĪ long list of CVE numbers that have been addressed since Fedora last To the Fedora development list to complain about this lag. 48 but, as of this writing, Fedora is shipping version But source updates and updated packages in distribution One of the other advantages claimed for Chromium over Chrome is its faster The task of packaging Chromium has gotten easier for distributors since, but Chromium wasįinally able to enter the Fedora repository in 2013 and has been there ever Including Chromium in Fedora seemed like an impossible task. It all comes down to a difficult impedance-matching task for anybody who GCC, despite the fact that the Chromium developers use LLVM. Own requirements on software that can be shipped, meaning that some of theĬode (codecs, primarily) that is part of Chromium must be excluded from theīecause that all isn't challenging enough, Fedora builds the browser with To integrate with the rest of the Fedora environment - working well with Libraries are not acceptable packages are expected to use the shared ![]() Make changes to meet its own requirements, the problem gets harder yet.įedora does have its own requirements. The result is thatĮven an out-of-the-box build can be challenging if the distributor has to While others must be provided by the operating system. The list ofĭependencies is long some of those are bundled with the browser source, The source tarball (compressed) weighs in at well over 1GB. The problem with Chromium is that it is a huge and messy program to build. Distributors can also add their own features as well. Chromium lacks many of the data-reporting mechanisms found inĬhrome and is rather less insistent about using one's Google ID with random But Chromium users canĪlso point to what is gained, starting with the fact that it is free ![]() It doesn't have Google's automatic updates, for example,Īnd it is missing a number of codecs for problematic media formats.Ĭhromium's ability to use the Google bookmark-synchronization feature was Has brought new attention to this problem.Ĭomparisons between Chrome and Chromium often focus on what the latterīrowser lacks. Struggled to keep up with it a recent discussion in the Fedora community Chrome, of course, isīuilt on an open-source project called Chromium but is notĪn open-source product itself it includes a number of proprietary add-ons.īut the Chromium source is out there and can, with some effort, be used toīuild a working, open-source browser a number of distributors do so.īut Chromium is famously hard to package, and distributors have, at times, That does not mean that everybody wants to run it. And yes it hurts a little to write that.Seemingly dominates the Internet at this point, but I'm just not sure I'm willing to bet on it right now. I absolutely want Firefox to survive & thrive. And they take flak from (some parts of) the community every time they try to adjust their business model for "wasting cycles on these stupid subscriptions no one wants, instead of focusing on their core product (Firefox)." I don't follow this all that closely, but it seems that they haven't found a real solid winning strategy yet. I know Mozilla is actively trying to develop revenue sources to break them out of their dependence on Google. It seems that Google is in a position to keep Mozilla in this just-enough-but-also-not-really-enough position financially. And although it's probably in Google's best interest to keep Mozilla/Firefox around to deflect charges of being a monopoly, it's also probably in Google's best interest if Mozilla doesn't have enough resources to make Firefox truly compete with Chrome. This is probably the biggest thing that keeps me from trying to make Firefox my daily driver browser. Mailing list: Fedora Testers (for Fedora Beta releases).Discord: discord.gg/fedora (Voice & Text chat).Post content regarding Fedora Project or Linux in general.This subreddit is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Fedora Project. A community for users, developers and people interested in the Fedora Project and news and information about it.
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