Hi Ricardo, Thank you for your reply.
Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > 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. Sure, I'll report them when I find the time. >> 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. It's not clear to me :-) Does it mean we can merge? > 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. Thank you for this important information. Clément
