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It was not the decision of debian to rebrand Firefox. Mozilla forced them to. Debian wanted to be able to ship security patches whenever they pleased, Mozilla r
by tyho 12y ago
It was not the decision of debian to rebrand Firefox. Mozilla forced them to.
Debian wanted to be able to ship security patches whenever they pleased, Mozilla required that they shipped Firefox stock, even if that meant waiting for Mozilla to approve security patches.
Chrome is not open source. Chrome tracks you. Chromium is open source and does not track you. Other than the slight branding differences, a user would not know the difference.
How are these slight changes an issue?
- Sir_Cmpwn 12y agoI think you missed the point.
- dllthomas 12y ago... that wanting to deliver security fixes faster than upstream is bad?
- marcosdumay 12y agoI think YOU missed the point. If Debian were subjected to the wishes of the authors of every piece of software they distribute, there would be no Debian.
- Mikeb85 12y ago> Chrome is not open source. Chrome tracks you. Chromium is open source and does not track you. I'm pretty sure neither Chrome nor Chromium 'track you'. When you sign in to your Google account, then they keep track of your searches, to provide things like auto-complete, remember your book marks, and provide hints, location services, etc... There's a huge difference between tracking you personally, and reading some information, keeping it in a database and providing you a better service later... (not going to lie, yesterday my boss sent me an email for a meeting, and GMail then automatically made a reminder for me and pushed it to my phone via Google Now - pretty damn awesome if you ask me). The only differences I've seen between Chromium and Chrome is that Chromium lacks the Pepper plugin by default (which provides Flash), and the Hangouts binary blob. All the 'tracking' if you really want to call it that (I personally wouldn't), happens through Google services, not Chrome per se...