Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla
by malnourish on Thursday August 13, 2020 @02:05PM
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Can you use alternative browsers on Chromebooks (sans rooting)?
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Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla
by seabrookmx on Thursday August 13, 2020 @03:26PM
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Technically, yes. Crostini is a WSL-like VM layer that allows you to run arbitrary Linux apps, including Firefox and Epiphany on ChromeOS.
Practically speaking though, this is all command-line heavy and developer centric. Your typical Chromebook user can't/won't.
I'm actually grappling with this issue right now.. I'm a long time Firefox user and picked up a Lenovo Duet ChromeOS device to serve as a replacement for my cheap Android tablet.
Turns out.. I really like the form factor and am using it a lot (typing on it right now!). But the Firefox Android apps are a pretty terrible experience and since I don't plan on using this for dev, I don't want to jump through all the crostini hoops. So here I am, using Chrome..