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  1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2022 03:09:44 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    #Google #Chrome and all other browsers based on #Chromium will get some changes to their extensions API which will reduce the ability of ad-blocking extensions. #Mozilla #Firefox is rejecting that part of the change, so Firefox and other browsers based on their code will retain superior ad-blocking capabilities.
    In conversation about 8 months ago from web permalink
  2. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Mar-2022 20:14:05 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    Use #Chrome / #Chromium? Time to update. https://nu.federati.net/url/285512 [www bleepingcomputer com]
    In conversation about 10 months ago from mustard permalink

    Attachments

    1. Emergency Google Chrome update fixes zero-day used in attacks
      from @BleepinComputer
      Google has released Chrome 99.0.4844.84 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users to address a high-severity zero-day bug exploited in the wild.
  3. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Feb-2022 01:09:25 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    in reply to
    • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    Case in point, in any of the #Chromium based browsers, you can turn #JavaScript totally on or totally off. There is no option to turn it off for 3rd party domains.

    So many sites are #JavaScrippled these days that turning JS all the way off (without a one-click way to turn it on for one site) is too frustrating for anyone to do.

    I did see in #Edge today that I can add sites individually to either a separate Yes to JS or No to JS list. I don't recall seeing it until recently. But that's cumbersome.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  4. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Feb-2022 00:48:48 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    in reply to
    • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    A lot of us are concerned about #Firefox, about #Thunderbird, and about #Mozilla itself. The trouble is, most of the seeds of Moz's current affliction were planted early on, when the #Google search deal was first signed.

    They received an unimaginable amount of money, and being good people, they decided to pour it into becoming the Web's advocate and (later on) the Web's privacy advocate.

    They built a large organization, with some very high salaries at the top, based on the revenue they received from a single customer. And then that customer launched its own browser, #Chrome, in part because Firefox was going slower than Google desired because so many resources were going into other projects and because Google's plans were not always aligned with what Mozilla believed was best for the Web.

    It was always an unsustainable situation, and when things changed due to cooperation being replaced with coopetition, they started a panicked grasping for other revenue sources.

    Now, they've cut actual developers, which makes it even more difficult to keep up with Chrome / #Chromium (and the many browsers derived from it). And because they need to find other revenue sources, they keep looking for ad deals ... which runs crosswise with its core users, who want to block ads.

    So, yeah, I don't see a way out that leaves them as anything other than a niche product produced by a small team of mostly volunteers.

    I do think _personalization_ as a differentiator is going to flop, if they're thinking about color schemes and superhero logos. A big chunk of what people did with XUL (the former technology, and what made it so customizable) was produce ad blockers, script blockers, embedded-media blockers, pop-up blockers, cookie and tracking blockers, proxy tools, and web development tools (webdev toolbars, xml toolbars, json tools, css and xsl tools, sqlite tools). I just don't think that the ability to make your browser look like the Spiderman t-shirt you bought last week is going to win over a lot of people who are using Chrome/Chomium/Edge/Opera/Vivaldi/Brave/Iron.

    Now, maybe if they make it the most secure and private browser right out of the box, with ad blocking, script blocking, and so on, plus make it faster than the Chromium family while consuming less RAM and crashing less often, then adding the ability to dress the browser up as Dora the Explorer will total enough advantages to make a difference.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  5. a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 10-Oct-2021 05:35:19 UTC a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
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    The saga of trying to build the monster that is Chromium for Android, reproducibly, all from source:

    gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues… (Bromite, Chromium degoogled)

    gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-… (Unobtainium, Chromium all open source, all from source)

    guix manages to build ungoogled-chromium for GNU and that's hard enough, but for Android it's even trickier. Part of the problem is as usual to disentangle the Play Services dependencies.

    For now it is, indeed, unobtainable.

    To even almost-succeed you need over 4 GiB virtual memory for the linking, over 10 GiB disk space for the sources alone and over 30 GiB disk space for the build artifacts. If you are a bit starved for CPU or I/O you're looking at s 24+ hour build.

    #Bromite #Unobtainium #UnobtainiumBrowser #Android #Chromium #FDroid
    In conversation about a year ago from libranet.de permalink
  6. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-May-2021 06:48:23 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/ [blog stackblitz com]

    #WebContainers -- run #Node.js in your browser

    Think #Chromium / #Chrome is a memory hog? You ain't seen nothing yet.
    In conversation Thursday, 27-May-2021 06:48:23 UTC from mustard permalink

    Attachments

    1. Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser
      from @StackBlitz
      Today we're excited to announce WebContainers, a new type of WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run natively in-browser.
  7. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-May-2021 03:56:36 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    in reply to
    • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    Also: #Chromium based browser #Brave disables #Google’s #FLoC https://brave.com/why-brave-disable-floc/ [brave com]

    https://nu.federati.net/url/281049 [www theverge com] notes that #Mozilla #Firefox currently has no plans to implement #FLoC and that #DuckDuckGo is already working to block FLoC.

    #Microsoft #Edge and #Apple #Safari issued somewhat evasive answers, but it is expected that Apple will be 100% no on FLoC.
    In conversation Sunday, 09-May-2021 03:56:36 UTC from Shoyu permalink

    Attachments

    1. Nobody is flying to join Google’s FLoC
      from https://www.facebook.com/dieter.bohn
      The future of the web is at stake
  8. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-May-2021 00:32:27 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    #Chromium based browser #Vivaldi says its users "will not get FloC'ed" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1_c3YG4Js

    #Chrome #FLoC #Tracking
    In conversation Sunday, 09-May-2021 00:32:27 UTC from web permalink

    Attachments

    1. No, Google! Users of Vivaldi browser will not get FLoC’ed.
      At Vivaldi, we stand up for the privacy rights of our users. We do not approve of Google's new FLoC technology to target ads on the web. It creates privacy r...
  9. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Feb-2021 06:33:55 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/new-chrome-browser-0-day-under-active.html

    Hole in #Chrome (and I presume other #Chromium based browsers) already being exploited. #time_to_update
    In conversation Monday, 08-Feb-2021 06:33:55 UTC from web permalink

    Attachments

    1. New Chrome Browser 0-day Under Active Attack—Update Immediately!
      from https://www.facebook.com/thehackernews
      Google has patched a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome web browser for desktop that it says is being actively exploited in the wild.
  10. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-Oct-2020 04:49:42 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    Isn't it time for #Chrome / #Chromium based browsers to remove #Flash? Adobe plans to end it in two and a half months.
    In conversation Saturday, 17-Oct-2020 04:49:42 UTC from web permalink
  11. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Oct-2020 01:57:56 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    in reply to
    • mangeurdenuage
    @mangeurdenuage I've been using #KeepassXC and its extensions for #Firefox and #Chrome / #Chromium.
    In conversation Thursday, 08-Oct-2020 01:57:56 UTC from mustard permalink
  12. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 11-Apr-2020 23:46:42 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    in reply to
    • mangeurdenuage
    @mangeurdenuage I don't remember #Firefox taking a psrticulsrly long time to compile, but #Chromium did seem to take a while. Nothing compares to the week I once spent waiting for #Ruby to compile on a box with a really slow Celeron, 128MiB of RAM.
    In conversation Saturday, 11-Apr-2020 23:46:42 UTC from AndStatus permalink
  13. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2019 16:58:36 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    #Chromium based #Vivaldi browser changing its user-agent string to masquerade as Google #Chrome because sites block it. https://www.zdnet.com/article/vivaldi-to-change-user-agent-string-to-chrome-due-to-unfair-blocking/ [zdnet] #Brave browser also does this.
    In conversation Thursday, 19-Dec-2019 16:58:36 UTC from Shoyu permalink
  14. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 10:27:06 UTC Strypey Strypey
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    • rain

    @rain there are free code forks of #Firefox, like #ABrowser and it's not too hard to maintain them. I'm not aware of a single fully libre fork of #Chrome. #Chromium and all the forks I know of have freedom issues.

    In conversation Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 10:27:06 UTC from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
  15. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2019 16:42:48 UTC Strypey Strypey
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    in reply to
    • Drew DeVault

    AFAICT the core criticism of #Electron (aside for the minor #SoftwareFreedom issues it inherits from its dependence on #Chromium) is this:

    "Do they build square airplanes so they don’t have to learn about aerodynamics, then just throw on an extra ten engines to make up for it? NO!"
    @sir , 'Electron Considered Harmful'
    https://drewdevault.com/2016/11/24/Electron-considered-harmful.html

    In conversation Thursday, 18-Apr-2019 16:42:48 UTC from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
  16. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 05:04:44 UTC Strypey Strypey
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    • Coffee & Aspirin
    • Adonay Felipe Nogueira

    @adfeno
    > #Matrix with it's flagship currently-assumed-non-free #Riot

    I think you're overstating your case here, to the point of misleading people. AFAIK Riot *itself* isn't non-free, it's desktop apps have a non-free dependency; #Electron. Actually Electron itself isn't non-free either, it also has a non-free dependency; #Chromium. Actually #Chromium itself isn't non-free either, it just has some dependencies whose license situation is unclear.

    @deejoe

    In conversation Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 05:04:44 UTC from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
  17. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Dec-2018 02:00:50 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    in reply to
    • Stephen Michael Kellat
    @alpacaherder My main laptop (6GiB RAM) goes OOM if #Chromium is the only thing open and I have more than about 5 JS-heavy tabs open. On the other hand, I can have a combined total of 150 tabs in 4 windows with #Firefox and #Palemoon and it will run for day without issue.
    In conversation Sunday, 30-Dec-2018 02:00:50 UTC from AndStatus permalink
  18. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2018 07:59:07 UTC Strypey Strypey
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    • JC Brand
    • Kristian / z428
    • Shura

    @jcbrand not in my OS, or any OS that follows the Free System Distribution Guidelines #FSDG, because of it's dependencies on #Chromium
    https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#chromium-browser
    @shura @z428

    In conversation Tuesday, 18-Dec-2018 07:59:07 UTC from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
  19. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Dec-2018 12:02:12 UTC Strypey Strypey
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    in reply to
    • JC Brand
    • Kristian / z428
    • Shura

    @jcbrand have you looked into #Ionic? It does essentially the same thing, but without bundling most of a #Chromium browser with your app. I was introduced to it at the recent #Coopathon in Hong Kong. The team I was part of used Ionic (with a #Horizon back-end) to build an MVP for a cross-platform app for use by foodbanks, in 48 hours.
    https://ionicframework.com/
    @shura @z428

    In conversation Sunday, 16-Dec-2018 12:02:12 UTC from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
  20. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Dec-2018 13:13:41 UTC Strypey Strypey
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    in reply to
    • Houseplant In Post 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
    • The Human
    • Alex L
    • Hex

    @hexmasteen @HerraBRE @alexl @Blort
    Most #Chromium based software can't even be confirmed as #FreeCode software to the standard required for being listed in the #FreeSoftwareDirectory. AFAIK #Iridium is the only project accepted into the #FSD that uses code from Chromium:
    https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Iridium_Browser

    In conversation Wednesday, 05-Dec-2018 13:13:41 UTC from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
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