On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > At this stage, chromium > is by far the most advanced browser on the market. It's the first one > in years to actually do some real rethinking and innovation - ideas > like tabbed processes, vm'd scripting, and sandboxed plugins make for > a much faster (and far more importantly) a hugely more secure browser > than anything else out there. > > ISTR that people reported aspects of Chromium that are bad for users' > freedom. I don't recall what they were, but suppose they are right > about that, and you are right about the underlying technology. > What conclusions follow? > > It follows that using Chromium _as it is_ is a bad thing, > and it would be good to make a user-respecting version of Chromium > with the same advances but put towards good rather than bad. > I agree, the good news is, one already exists - somebody linked it earlier in this discussion, it's called Iron, and it's basically a project from Germany to create a version of chromium with all the aspects that are deemed invasive removed. I had a look and I have essentially decided that Iron will be in the next Kongoni release, though whether as the default is still up for debate. The next official release will have 64-bit native support, and once that is in place, there is really no reason not to provide it that I can see.
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