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Chromium / Blink is open source, we should be doing everything we can to get as many users using non-Google Chromium browsers. We really shouldn't be having to

Chromium / Blink is open source, we should be doing everything we can to get as many users using non-Google Chromium browsers. We really shouldn't be having to worry so much about Google's conflicts of interests. Brave and Blink-based Edge are looking to be better and better options. Another is UnGoogled-Chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Would love to see this latter option becoming something that appeals to a very large, mainstream market rather than just a few techies.

nacs 7y ago
Another excellent browser that users should be switching to: https://firefox.com https://firefox.com
- mantap 7y ago
  Unfortunately it is unbearably slow on MacOS.
  - LarryPage 7y ago
    Try again
amyjess 7y ago
I'm also very fond of Vivaldi, and I intend to switch one of these days. It would be especially nice if we can get the Vivaldi developers to fork Blink to keep the old API around.
roca 7y ago
Chromium is still controlled by Google. Exhibit A: this ad-blocking API issue, where Google decisions will affect all Chromium browsers. (Sure, they can maintain patches against upstream, but over time that becomes non-viable.) If Google's behaviour concerns you, you need to use Firefox or Safari.
- techntoke 7y ago
  Chromium is much easier to compile once you take into account all the requirements.
  - roca 7y ago
    This is a strange comment. On Linux at least, Firefox is far easier and quicker to get building from scratch than Chromium. I've done both relatively recently.