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Out of curiosity, why did you switch to Chrome? I have been using Chromium on all my machines, a Ubuntu one being my main machine and experienced no issues with

Out of curiosity, why did you switch to Chrome? I have been using Chromium on all my machines, a Ubuntu one being my main machine and experienced no issues with it whatsoever. I do experience some issues with the Signal chrome app, it when I log in on my deskop it replays message notifications which I have already seen on my phone. But I am not sure if this is a chromium issue, and even if it is, it's a very minor one.

rfz 10y ago
That's just the Chrome Signal app playing catchup - not Chromium's fault. It's not the best app in the world. Really can't wait for the next iteration that isn't in Chrome form.
- r3bl 10y ago
  This affected every single Chromium app I had installed. Signal is just one of them, which was easiest to spot. Pocket, Kindle Cloud Reader, Duolingo, and Floating for YouTube are also gone.
- Insanity 10y ago
  Oh thank you rfz, I did not know that. Signal is the only chromium app that I am using. Are they making a stand alone app?
  - rfz 10y ago
    Evidently all Chrome apps are being phased out for Windows/Linux/Mac, so I can only assume they will. Not that Signal is a very feature-filled app or concept (it doesn't need to be), but it could definitely stand to be a bit more polished. http://www.omgchrome.com/not-joke-google-killing-chrome-apps/ http://www.omgchrome.com/not-joke-google-killing-chrome-apps...
    - Insanity 10y ago
      Ah yeah, I completely forgot about this.
    - r3bl 10y ago
      Ah, I didn't even know that this was happening. Thanks for sharing!
    - lima 10y ago
      I hate this. Chrome Apps are nicely sandboxed within Chrome's sandbox. Now everyone is porting their stuff Electron, which has no sandbox. Deprecating Chrome Apps is hurting users by making their systems less secure.
      - angry_octet 10y ago
        I am contemplating extracting the bits of chromium required to just make it an app container, so I can continue to run Chrome apps on the desktop. Since Chrome apps will still exist for Chromebooks it should keep working.
        lima 10y ago
        I fear that app developers would abandon their Chrome apps in favor of Electron.
        rfz 10y ago
        Seems to me that devs would only be smart (read: not in our favor or best interest) to go where the people are; what's the ChromeOS userbase compared to that of other OSes?
        angry_octet 10y ago
        I don't care about ChromeOS, it's cross-platform, offline capable, secure and sandboxed applications I want. How much easier to distribute just the Chrome App engine to hundreds of varying Windows boxes, than the individual apps?
        rfz 10y ago
        I was agreeing with you.
        angry_octet 10y ago
        Electron misses some core native application type features because they are not available to it. I can't see them coming to HTML5 either. It is just a colossal stuff up all round.
r3bl 10y ago
I didn't, just wanted to try it out. Now I'm kind of stuck where I have to use Chromium + Chrome apps, which is definitely not the end result I was hoping for.
- majewsky 10y ago
  Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/349/ https://xkcd.com/349/

rfz 10y ago

That's just the Chrome Signal app playing catchup - not Chromium's fault. It's not the best app in the world. Really can't wait for the next iteration that isn't in Chrome form.

r3bl 10y ago
This affected every single Chromium app I had installed. Signal is just one of them, which was easiest to spot. Pocket, Kindle Cloud Reader, Duolingo, and Floating for YouTube are also gone.
Insanity 10y ago
Oh thank you rfz, I did not know that. Signal is the only chromium app that I am using. Are they making a stand alone app?
- rfz 10y ago
  Evidently all Chrome apps are being phased out for Windows/Linux/Mac, so I can only assume they will. Not that Signal is a very feature-filled app or concept (it doesn't need to be), but it could definitely stand to be a bit more polished. http://www.omgchrome.com/not-joke-google-killing-chrome-apps/ http://www.omgchrome.com/not-joke-google-killing-chrome-apps...
  - Insanity 10y ago
    Ah yeah, I completely forgot about this.
  - r3bl 10y ago
    Ah, I didn't even know that this was happening. Thanks for sharing!
  - lima 10y ago
    I hate this. Chrome Apps are nicely sandboxed within Chrome's sandbox. Now everyone is porting their stuff Electron, which has no sandbox. Deprecating Chrome Apps is hurting users by making their systems less secure.
    - angry_octet 10y ago
      I am contemplating extracting the bits of chromium required to just make it an app container, so I can continue to run Chrome apps on the desktop. Since Chrome apps will still exist for Chromebooks it should keep working.
      - lima 10y ago
        I fear that app developers would abandon their Chrome apps in favor of Electron.
        rfz 10y ago
        Seems to me that devs would only be smart (read: not in our favor or best interest) to go where the people are; what's the ChromeOS userbase compared to that of other OSes?
        angry_octet 10y ago
        I don't care about ChromeOS, it's cross-platform, offline capable, secure and sandboxed applications I want. How much easier to distribute just the Chrome App engine to hundreds of varying Windows boxes, than the individual apps?
        rfz 10y ago
        I was agreeing with you.
        angry_octet 10y ago
        Electron misses some core native application type features because they are not available to it. I can't see them coming to HTML5 either. It is just a colossal stuff up all round.

r3bl 10y ago

I didn't, just wanted to try it out. Now I'm kind of stuck where I have to use Chromium + Chrome apps, which is definitely not the end result I was hoping for.

majewsky 10y ago
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/349/ https://xkcd.com/349/