Chromium On Wayland "Ozone" Continues

[intellivision]

Spyware is a term typically reserved for malicious software that gathers personal information. This is a feature (or a anti feature depending on your perspective) for enabling targeted advertising and Google fixed the problem when it was reported. It is not really appropriate to call it spyware.

It's software that collected the personal information of users without their consent, sounds like spyware to me.

[RahulSundaram]

It's big oversight to ship an open source web browser with spyware, no matter what time it was out in the public sphere.

Spyware is a term typically reserved for malicious software that gathers personal information. This is a feature (or a anti feature depending on your perspective) for enabling targeted advertising and Google fixed the problem when it was reported. It is not really appropriate to call it spyware.

[intellivision]

Did you read that? It was a bug that was reported and fixed. More than 3 years ago.

It's big oversight to ship an open source web browser with spyware, no matter what time it was out in the public sphere.

[RahulSundaram]

I'm on RHEL6 FYI. Google has stopped supporting RHEL6, so Chrome 27 is the last release for this OS. I'll continue to use it, as it works well for me. Also I'm a user not a developer, so maybe I'm doing something wrong, I don't know, but this is my experience with these browsers.

Using an older Chrome with known security vulnerabilities is far more of a problem than bugs. You should definitely switch to a well maintained browser.

[erendorn]

Don't reply to spambots, please.

indeed, sorry.

[curaga]

Don't reply to spambots, please.

[erendorn]

And "Chromium's security ... far better than Firefox"... really?

sandboxing.
It's not end all be all, but it sure helps.

Edit:
that, and paying bounties for exploits and bugs.

[MartinN]

Bug #1

01.org

Also about time someone claimed Bug #1 for real, with a real chance and a commitment of closing it!

[torsionbar28]

I used Firefox for many years, but recently switched to Chrome. I want to like Firefox, I really do, but at least on my machine, it feels buggy and crashy. I can't get through a youtube video without flash player crashing. Resizing the window or scrolling the window also causes flash to crash. The whole browser has quit unexpectedly more times than I care to count. With Chrome, I have not experienced any of these problems. Everything seems to "just work", and a total browser crash is very rare.

I'm on RHEL6 FYI. Google has stopped supporting RHEL6, so Chrome 27 is the last release for this OS. I'll continue to use it, as it works well for me. Also I'm a user not a developer, so maybe I'm doing something wrong, I don't know, but this is my experience with these browsers.

[MartinN]

I was googling more about ozone-wayland and came across the project page in https://01.org/ozone-wayland
and a blog posted today https://01.org/ozone-wayland/blogs/k...lcome-our-blog

01.org seems like an online presence for all intel open source projects. I am happy to see that it's not a one time code drop but Intel would be actively working on this.

Thanks for sharing that, I've bookmarked it.