On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 06:58:19PM -0400, alex lupu wrote: > Slow weekend, with me in an exuberant mood. > Starting point, the thread about my rsync-3.1.2 crazy MD5sum: > > < > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2016-February/077482.html > > > > Ken's last remark in the thread (emphasizing my error:), > > "Alex - get yourself a better browser > (or don't use it for downloading) ;-)", > > hurt a lot but it greatly helped as well by putting me in > a mean, fighting spirit. > I decided to rip into chrome/chromium browsers big time, > by submitting Bug 591438: > Sorry, it wasn't intended to hurt - I have a low opinion of chrome/chromium because they fork so much of what they use, so that it can no longer use system libs for many things and has to build its own static versions. And a browser which corrupts the download is generally considered to be a bad thing. Plus, reports have said it takes for ever to build, and needs vast amounts of space for linking.
And I've become fed up with reading the vulnerability reports in lwn's security reports - I had assumed that anything building on google's resources, particularly in the security area, would be more safe, but it seems to need to be updated as frequently as firefox. But we all reap what we have sowed : in my case I've now got to look at minimising the shipped libs in qtwebengine, at least down to only those which fedora uses, because I need it for qupzilla - and it is using stuff from chromium. Oh well, at least qupzilla can now do ftp - unlike every other qt4/qt5 browser I can remember - even if it seems unable to 'save as' on text pages such as our links to patches. Unfortunately, browsers are a pain and all of the graphical ones need to be updated frequently. For downloads, wget (and for ftp-only links I suppose I would use ncftp) from a good term should be a fine backup process. ĸen -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
