Chrome 74 Is Now Available Though Not Too Exciting For Linux Users

[Azrael5]

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5729898442260480

x86 devices? ahahahah They are cretins.

[Britoid]

You can select GTK3 UI in the options for quite some time now, and it then uses system theming (e.g. dark themes)...

Chrome using a GTK dark theme is badly broken. You can't even see the downloads properly.

[starshipeleven]

x86 devices? ahahahah They are cretins.

what?

[starshipeleven]

I do like the Chrome UI more than the Firefox UI. The integrated row with tabs and window buttons is a clever solution to maximize the rendering area.

You can enable this on Firefox and also Thunderbird too.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/...x-csd-on-linux

1. Open the main menu
2. Select ‘customise’
3. Uncheck the ‘title bar’ box

[Azrael5]

what?

AV1 decoding is available only for x86 devices since now, by chrome.

[starshipeleven]

AV1 decoding is available only for x86 devices since now, by chrome.

I'm still not sure what you mean.

They say "Chrome Desktop x86 devices", so that's more or less anything that isn't Android.

[M@GOid]

I do like the Chrome UI more than the Firefox UI. The integrated row with tabs and window buttons is a clever solution to maximize the rendering area.

In the latest Firefox, you can use the same layout Chrome uses for tabs. Also, the traditional layout has a compact mode that leaves it using the same height as Chrome.

[tildearrow]

Dark mode is not for the widgets and browser UI.
Dark mode is a new CSS query so that websites can define how their websites will look under dark mode.
So you can have a website have black text on white background normally, but when it detects the user is using dark mode, the website is rendered with white text on black background.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=prefers-color-scheme

Please tell me what will occur to websites that render white text on a black background by default under conditions.

[uid313]

Please tell me what will occur to websites that render white text on a black background by default under conditions.

Well it up to the style sheet (CSS) defined by that website. If the website's style sheet does not define a rule for dark theme, then it looks exactly the same as it always normally do.

Here is an example.

@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
  body {
    background: white;
    color: black;
  }
}

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  body {
    background: black;
    color: white;
  }
} 

[edwaleni]

As Chrome/Chromium goes, so goes Vivaldi, Brave, and soon Internet Explorer.