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Linux distributors frustrated by Google's new Chromium web browser restrictions

• Ir0nMan 6y ago
  Chromium is used over Chrome because the Google integration of Chrome is not desirable. If you are going to then sign into a Google account in Chromium you might as well just use Chrome. This entire story seems like a non issue. Chromium without any Google integrations seems like the exact point of Chromium in the first place.
  • type0 6y ago
    That's right and by this point distributions should consider packaging ungoogle-chromium instead
• Melkman 6y ago
  Ehhh, isn't the point of using Chromium not using Google API's and customizations ? If you want to use Google products why not use Chrome proper ?
  • hakfoo 6y ago
    I'm thinking the issue is timely packaging and builds. Packaging: I suspect Google prefers to centrally distribute Chrome binaries, so they can swap out versions at whim, potentially even split-testing at the distributed packages. Most distributions push the "get a signed RPM/DEB/etc from our repository" model, whose trust would be shredded by jumping out to download from Google, so they supply what they can package themselves: Chromium. Builds: I recall for years the sales pitch of distributions like Arch and Gentoo was "everything ends up compiled with the exact optimal flags for your machine, so it runs faster than the generic x86-64 build that has to run on a first-generation circa 2005 Athlon 64." That's only supportable with the Chromium source package.