On 12/11/2015 18:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 11 Nov 2015 20:46:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:07:20 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>>>> Is "www-client/chromium" good alternative to firefox? >>>> >>>> I much prefer it, but that's all it is, personal preference. Try it >>>> and decide for yourself. It's a long emerge so you may want to try >>>> with chrome first, it's a binary package so much faster to install. >>> >>> I was just checking out on other forums; chromium is an open source and >>> not very well maintain. www-client/google-chrome suppose to be better. >> >> On what is that claim based? Chromium used the chrome source code with >> the proprietary bits removed and the same versions of both are available >> in portage. > > ...and I'm for ever having to recompile chromium as it seems to change about > once a week. Not what you would call poorly supported. >
Well the OP did say that the info came from "other forums" and we know how reliable those can be. I'd trust my mother-in-law's opinion on the state of Chromium before I trust $RANDOM_ARB_FORUM_ON_TEH_INTARWEBZ -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
