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What sort of regressions are there in KDE and Chrome?
by hnlmorg 2y ago
What sort of regressions are there in KDE and Chrome?
- loeg 2y agoA variety of things don't work or break frequently. Google does not support Chrome on BSD at all and refuses to upstream any BSD support patches in chromium, so ports maintainers struggle to re-port new chromium releases to BSD (there is a giant stack of patches that keeps growing bigger). Updates lag upstream, often by a long time. Chrome's core security sandboxing features are broken on BSD (it just runs un-sandboxed!), which is kind of a major issue that no one talks about.
- skydhash 2y agoIs chrome a web requirement these days? I'd say use Firefox and be done with it.
- loeg 2y agoLots of people seem to prefer Chrome to Firefox, possibly some for good reasons: https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/browser-market-share https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/browser-market-share Firefox may work better on FreeBSD, or not -- I don't have as much personal experience with it. (It's not like there are a huge number of BSD Firefox developers, either.)
- timeon 2y ago> possibly some for good reasons Can you help me? I didn't find any in that article. Maybe I missed in the flood of term 'market share'.
- hnlmorg 2y agoFirefox has always worked well for me on FreeBSD and OpenSolaris derivatives. I get why some people might prefer Chrome but I’d have thought Firefox would have aligned better with ideals of the average BSD user. Interesting to know that Google are rejecting BSD patches; that’s a great pity. What about desktop environments though? I always thought KDE and GNOME were first class citizens on FreeBSD.