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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by agotterer on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:30AM (#17364474)
The open source statement isn’t accurate because Chromium is open source.

But I do agree that one company shouldn’t control the internet or browsing experience end to end. Although as far as pushing web standards and browsing Google has mostly been a good citizen. Let’s just pretend AMP wasn’t a thing.

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by Spone on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:34AM (#17364494)
> The open source statement isn’t accurate because Chromium is open source.

But Firefox is free software :)

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by chupasaurus on Thursday June 21, 2018 @09:09AM (#17364702)
Go get some Chromium Stable installation for Windows. Choose wisely, though [0].

[0]https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-sn...

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by atVelocet on Thursday June 21, 2018 @09:27AM (#17364865)
Or better use one of these: https://chromium.woolyss.com/ https://download-chromium.appspot.com/
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by chupasaurus on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:00PM (#17368260)
These are not the official repos and they can contain some malicious code.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by atVelocet on Thursday June 21, 2018 @05:45PM (#17369556)
Just like any extension you are using.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by chupasaurus on Thursday June 21, 2018 @05:53PM (#17369606)
You can uninstall or block extension, you can't uncompile RCE or trojan or whatever.
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