Chromium On Wayland "Ozone" Continues

[chromiumfreak]

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.

[Awesomeness]

Same here, feels bad that Intel decided to go with Google instead of Mozilla...

I'm pretty sure the reason why Intel ports Chromium is because Tizen IVI uses Qt and Digia is leaving WebKit for Chromium for web support in Qt 5.

[curaga]

Do you have any specifics that it is not the case? AFAIK, Chromium uses sandboxes making it more secure than Firefox. Firefox is still planning to do the same.

True, but Chromium is willingly malicious, as evidenced by its enabled-by-default data leaks. Pick your poison.

[ChrisXY]

By default Chromium still contains code, that can't be user disabled, that sends data back to Google, the only difference is that it can be stripped out and compiled at the source level (which almost no one does).

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-discuss/V0x5LyOrL_0

That alone is enough to make me wary of whatever web browser Google is offering.

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

[bkor]

I'm not saying Chromium is insecure, but saying it has better security than Firefox is just outright zealotry right there :/

Do you have any specifics that it is not the case? AFAIK, Chromium uses sandboxes making it more secure than Firefox. Firefox is still planning to do the same.

[Daktyl198]

Chromium is not a proprietary software and its performance, security on linux are far better than firefox.

Just like I told the last person: on my computer, Firefox outperforms (and out-does on a visual scale) chromium/Chrome BY FAR.

And "Chromium's security ... far better than Firefox"... really? Does somebody have their head stuck up their ass? I mean, it is the Phoronix forums but I didn't think it could get this bad.

I'm not saying Chromium is insecure, but saying it has better security than Firefox is just outright zealotry right there :/

And don't tell me I don't know what I'm saying, I used Chrome/Chromium for two years (on Linux) before switching back to Firefox and I still have it installed and updated. I use it for testing and for general use to see how new versions perform.

[intellivision]

Chromium is not a proprietary software and its performance, security on linux are far better than firefox.

By default Chromium still contains code, that can't be user disabled, that sends data back to Google, the only difference is that it can be stripped out and compiled at the source level (which almost no one does).

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-discuss/V0x5LyOrL_0

That alone is enough to make me wary of whatever web browser Google is offering.

[hooluupog]

Just think about this:

Google Chrome is a proprietary software from a country where a government facility can legally force any company to install a backdoor and to keep it secret.

Chromium is not a proprietary software and its performance, security on linux are far better than firefox.

[Daktyl198]

On Linux, Chromium/Google Chrome destroys Firefox even without Aura.

You and I are OBVIOUSLY running different set ups. On my computer Firefox starts in less than a second while chrome usually takes ~1.2-1.5 seconds to start, pages render faster in Firefox and not only that, they render BETTER. Especially fonts. I don't even know how Chrome got so popular with the shit font-rendering it has...

[MartinN]

now if we could just replace Android on every phone with a Wayland-based Chrome OS ... and we're talking .