On Friday 27 August 2010 20:21:30 Ron Guerin wrote: > Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 August 2010 14:28:24 Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > >> We had a thread going about a year ago on my wanting to switch to Chrome > >> ( well Chromium ) but my and others insistence on two plugins kept us > >> from doing so. > > > > There are differences between Chrome and Chromium which makes it > > worthwhile to distinguish between the two. The really big difference > > for me is that Chrome comes with objectionable Terms-Of-Service, but > > Chromium does not. There are also several other technical and feature > > differences. > > What are the technical differences? I've assumed Chromium was just > Chrome with the Big Brother stuff and possibly some encumbered stuff > missing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser) "The project's hourly Chromium snapshots appear essentially similar[2] to the latest builds of Google Chrome aside from the omission of certain Google additions, most noticeable among them: Google's brand, auto-update mechanism, click-through licensing terms, and bundling of Adobe Flash Player." I believe another notable difference is H.264 support. This may get more interesting as there's now a permanent moratorium on royalties for H.264, but it's still patented. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/26/1859245/MPEG-LA-Announces-Permanent- Royalty-Moratorium-For-H264 > > I find myself using several browsers depending on what I'm doing, but > > Chromium isn't one of them -- somehow I just don't like the interface. > > I have been forcing myself to use Chrome to be able to have an opinion > about whether or not its speed matters to me (it does not) or whether or > not I think it is a better browser than Firefox (I do not). There's a > lot of little things I just don't like about Chrome, but the one I can't > get over is I feel like I'm using the Fisher-Price/Playskool browser. That's kind of where I'm at with it, too. However I'm still glad to have Chromium available, as it's Chrome without the objectionable parts... even if I don't choose to use it. > It upsets me that Mozilla seems to be taking all its cues from Chrome > these days. If I wanted Chrome, I'd use it. > > - Ron As long as Mozilla doesn't try to take it's /licensing/ cues from Chrome we'll be in far better shape. As you're probably running a Debian box with Chromium, have a look at the horror that is the "copyright" file in /usr/share/doc/chromium-browser/copyright. There's 59 license versions listed in there, so many that the file is 1.2 MB of text, and some of the files don't come with any license listed for them at all... thus there's also a "copyright.problems.gz" file. I tend to flip back-and-forth between Firefox (Iceweasel), Konqueror, Arora, Lynx, and Elinks depending on what I'm doing. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Sep 1 - BOINC Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions Nov 3 - Bug Labs
