Chrome 92 Beta Released With File Handling API, Other Developer Additions

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Chrome 92 Beta Released With File Handling API, Other Developer Additions

Following last week's stable release of Chrome 91, Google has now promoted Chrome 92 to beta...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-92-Beta

[andyprough]

support for filtering Web Bluetooth devices based on manufacturer specific data like device/vendor IDs and more

I used to be a big Chrome/Google fanboy, but that was before the Snowden revelations, and subsequent revelations of other widespread big tech mass surveillance. Snowden redpilled me bigtime on a lot of different technology. The world was a simpler place before he started exposing its dark secrets.

[Aryma]

did they f*cked up ads blocker yet ?

[pranav]

did they f*cked up ads blocker yet ?

They are doing it at some point.
Adblockers devs aware of how effective their extension are in Chrome at some point.

[chromer]

But still to stable wayland support and VAAPI under wayland

[Mez']

did they f*cked up ads blocker yet ?

If they could start with blocking autoplay of videos (especially agressive ad videos), that would be a start. Muting them is not enough.

I'm forced to use Chrome at work unfortunately. It's completely obsolete compared to Firefox or Edge, and I would like to use one of these modern browsers instead.

[Aryma]

Edge is just cloned chromium

there no difference between edge and chrome except theme

[Charlie68]

Great job, Chrome is doing very well.

[skeevy420]

If they could start with blocking autoplay of videos (especially agressive ad videos), that would be a start. Muting them is not enough.

I'm forced to use Chrome at work unfortunately. It's completely obsolete compared to Firefox or Edge, and I would like to use one of these modern browsers instead.

My cable internet is metered so I hate that shit. It's like they partnered up with my ISP and said "It isn't much, but this will increase our ad revenue as well as make your customers use more bandwidth than intended. We're gonna get our $10 out of that skeevy420 son of a bitch somehow."

[elatllat]

But still to stable wayland support and VAAPI under wayland

I have Chromium on Wayland working in Ubuntu, but not Fedora...