Hi Clément,
> Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a > package for Firefox 60. Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but > it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes, and sometimes > freezes my computer). I’m surprised to hear that you’ve had problems with Epiphany. I’m using it daily for dozens of tabs and I recommend it to people who cannot use Icecat. It’s difficult to send good bug reports when the browser freezes the computer, of course, but it would be helpful to get more information about these crashes, if you can reproduce them. > So the question is: can we push the Chromium package? I've read it's > almost ready[2]. The TODO list for convenience: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * There is still some data transmitted when starting the browser for the first time. It seems related to the "domain_reliability" component. * Remove remaining "Web Store" links. Currently I've only found it in settings, under "accessibility" and "fonts". * Opening settings transmits a bunch of data, the next version will include the 'disable-translation-lang-fetch' patch from Inox. * PDFium is built, but does not seem to work (the 'install' phase probably needs tweaking). Might just disable it instead. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- It would be *very* nice if the first and third items could be solved before merging, but I don’t consider them blockers. Would someone like to investigate one of these problems? As has been stated multiple times in the discussion of this evolving patch set, we cannot guarantee privacy, but we can make attempts to remove problems as they become known. This will remain an uphill battle and in future iterations of this package we should try to integrate more patches provided by other groups working on removing anti-features from Chromium. Thanks to Marius for driving the evolution of this patch set through multiple upgrades and bringing it to a usable state! My personal recommendation is to use Epiphany if possible (and Icecat once version 60 is ready) and to be careful with Chromium. -- Ricardo
