Chrome is basically crippling Chromium's features

Re:Chrome is basically crippling Chromium's features by angry_octet on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:42AM (#14210986)

I am contemplating extracting the bits of chromium required to just make it an app container, so I can continue to run Chrome apps on the desktop. Since Chrome apps will still exist for Chromebooks it should keep working.

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Re:Chrome is basically crippling Chromium's features by lima on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:54AM (#14211042)

I fear that app developers would abandon their Chrome apps in favor of Electron.

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Re:Chrome is basically crippling Chromium's features by angry_octet on Thursday April 27, 2017 @11:33AM (#14212243)

Electron misses some core native application type features because they are not available to it. I can't see them coming to HTML5 either. It is just a colossal stuff up all round.

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Re:Chrome is basically crippling Chromium's features by rfz on Thursday April 27, 2017 @09:09AM (#14211163)

Seems to me that devs would only be smart (read: not in our favor or best interest) to go where the people are; what's the ChromeOS userbase compared to that of other OSes?

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Re:Chrome is basically crippling Chromium's features by angry_octet on Thursday April 27, 2017 @11:29AM (#14212221)

I don't care about ChromeOS, it's cross-platform, offline capable, secure and sandboxed applications I want. How much easier to distribute just the Chrome App engine to hundreds of varying Windows boxes, than the individual apps?

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Re:Chrome is basically crippling Chromium's features by rfz on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:04AM (#14219926)

I was agreeing with you.

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