> "That’s now put on hold - a compulsory extension is one thing, but having it be purely for advertising is a massive “No” flag to me."
so that's why you stick with chrome, a browser designed to send all your browsing habits straight to google, the largest online advertising company and commercial tracker in the world?
Chrome may be what you described, but Chromium is pretty reasonable.
The open source version of android used to be reasonable too. How long will that be true of Chromium without open source alternatives?
AOSP is still reasonable, though.
It's just increasingly more separate from what people usually call "Android".
Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope
by lern_too_spel on Saturday December 16, 2017 @05:30PM
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It's what I call "Android." Google services were never part of AOSP. Bundling all the Google services together and naming the bundle didn't change anything in that respect.
If you care about that you just turn them off though.
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.htm...
You actually don't have real control over Chrome. Only Chromium is open source, and then you won't have all the features you surely use. Like videos working.
Edit: (+) Sir_Cmpwn, At least not working for me when I try seeing the pages with H264 encoded ones, and when I search, this is what I find:
https://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what%E2%80%99s-the-differen...
"What Chrome Has That Chromium Doesn’t
AAC, H.264, and MP3 Support.
Adobe Flash (PPAPI)."
Chromium is not equal Chrome.
Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope
by ficklepickle on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:12PM
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I use chromium on Linux as my main desktop browser. I assure you it plays videos. The only thing it doesn't do is play DRM'd video, which is a feature.
Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope
by Dylan16807 on Sunday December 17, 2017 @03:02PM
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It plays non-DRM H.264 videos? Or maybe you're depending on sites to have multiple versions?
Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope
by thegeekpirate on Saturday December 16, 2017 @05:31PM
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I just tested it, seems to work fine on Chromium.
Videos work on Chromium.
Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope
by codewithcheese on Saturday December 16, 2017 @01:18PM
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update your conciousness because a complete revamp is what happened. what mozilla did was stupid but its nothing compared to being tracked by google.
It was quantum. Firefox got faster than Chrome with it.
Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope
by Dylan16807 on Sunday December 17, 2017 @03:00PM
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> a compulsory extension is one thing, but having it be purely for advertising is a massive “No” flag to me.
Remember, the extension was not there to advertise the show!
I don't know if that affects the way you're using the term "for advertising", but it affects how I care a lot.
This was the new interface, right? I just saw this the other day and though it looked pretty good; was actually considering a trial switch back (after moving to chrome years ago, when a single bad tab would take down the entire browser).
That’s now put on hold - a compulsory extension is one thing, but having it be purely for advertising is a massive “No” flag to me.
I’m of the view that getting (most) people to consider switching browsers only comes every few years and requires a very large incentive; “We’ve fixed that one incremental problem” isn’t enough. A complete revamp would do it, but takes time to permeate into conciousness. And in the meantime they do this. “Squandered goodwill” seems to be spot-on.