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Ubuntu to replace Firefox with chromium
http://goo.gl/00vXFy
Is it even possible to run chromium in a way that doesn't send info to google?
This combined with the amazon-Ubuntu fiasco just makes me want o use Ubuntu less and less. Sure I can turn off the amazon thing and I could replace chromium with my browser of choice but the point is that if I have to spend a crapload of time reconfiguring the default installation of Ubuntu to disable features that violate my privacy, then it's starting to become more and more like other OS's that Linux users typically avoid for just these reasons (and others)
Hellooooo Debian!
- xzcvczx 13y agoI do believe that chromium doesn't send too much data to google compared to chrome but i also find that chrome/chromium is significantly faster at loading many sites that i use on a daily basis and could be reason to switch, also with firefox's 6-week release schedule it seems that many people are becoming frustrated with the constant updates, all decent reasons to consider a change of default web browser.
- sfahad10 13y agohi mr.? Fiasco has happened; some time before there is news report on HN, by a former personnel(previously holding some administrator seat in Ubuntu), that whenever u search any thing on your desktop in Ubuntu that query goes to some anonymous server of Ubuntu even if u search on your hard drive.