The Chromium Web Browser Might Finally Be Added To Fedora

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Phoronix: The Chromium Web Browser Might Finally Be Added To Fedora

There are some Fedora packagers/developers working towards potentially getting Google's open-source version of the Chrome web-browser, Chromium, added into Fedora...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chromium-Browser-Fedora-Q

[M@GOid]

I want, but can't use Chromium in K/Ubuntu because it is always behind Chrome in release numbers, so if I use it I don't get the last security fixes.

Let's hope that in Fedora they can keep up with Chrome releases.

[carewolf]

I want, but can't use Chromium in K/Ubuntu because it is always behind Chrome in release numbers, so if I use it I don't get the last security fixes.

Let's hope that in Fedora they can keep up with Chrome releases.

You do know security fixes are backported and Chromium is more secure than Chrome, right?

[carewolf]

For instance Chrome 45 says they will have fixed logjam, which has been solved in Debian for months.

[mark45]

More decisions like this will come as the Fedora devs get their shit together and instead of policy start looking at what people want and value common sense. I predict in 3-5 years they'll get it that the installation of codecs must work OOTB and not rely on 3rd parties.

[RahulSundaram]

More decisions like this will come as the Fedora devs get their shit together and instead of policy start looking at what people want and value common sense. I predict in 3-5 years they'll get it that the installation of codecs must work OOTB and not rely on 3rd parties.

It is feasible to provide packaging exceptions for certain packages and that is nothing new. However including several multimedia codecs is not legally feasible with the current patent regime. This isn't just a question of policy.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents

[Awesomeness]

More decisions like this will come as the Fedora devs get their shit together and instead of policy start looking at what people want and value common sense.

Google should just get their shit together and stop to fork and force-bundle every shitty library on the planet just because they are too stupid to use the system-provided ones.

[horizonbrave]

why some of you prefer Chrome/Chromium over Firefox? By using Firefox I just miss Hangouts integration

[M@GOid]

You do know security fixes are backported and Chromium is more secure than Chrome, right?

In Ubuntu repos? Because after several secure updates in Chrome I didn't see Chromium receiving any. Not to mention the stupid rendering bug because a decision made by the Ubuntu developers.

@horizonbrave

People have different needs. Me for example can't stand the time Firefox takes to load 2 or 3 pages in the background. You know, you come to Phoronix, start to middle click several articles on the main page to load tabs in the background. In Firefox is a stop-motion film. Chrome load the pages much more faster.

Another case is that Firefox don't send to the cloud my custom search engines and their respective keywords. Chrome does. After every new install I have to go out and visit the sites and got then back.

But Firefox have nice things too. The RSS reader in the bookmark bar is great. Nothing in Chrome nor in his extensions have the same user friendless. The built in tab grouping is very nice too.

[horizonbrave]

Totally agree on the page loading times.. but I couldn't understand when reading some benchmarks why Firefox was supposed to have a minor memory footprint but I guess that it's more because of different internal designs.

Cheers