Chris Knadle wrote:
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.
I install a lot of browsers for the sake of testing, and partly I
suppose because I don't feel that anything we've seen yet is the last
word on "best ever". I do all my heavy lifting in Firefox right now,
but for various reasons (testing things logged in vs. not logged in
being a common case) I often keep a second browser open. Right now that
second browser is Chrome, but my preferred second choice is Epiphany.
I don't use Lynx much anymore, I think because there's so much these
days that can't be used without JavaScript. My main text browser for
the last couple of years has been dog, because it's been handy for
examining questionable URLs sent to my URL shortener. Unfortunately,
dog ("better than cat") has been dropped from Debian, and I will have to
replace it with a wrapper script or alias for this:
wget -q -O - --save-headers http://example.com
This gives me what dog gave me. HTTP headers, followed by content, to
stdout. I suppose I might eventually find it useful to set the user
agent for these examinations, which is something wget will do that dog
didn't.
- Ron
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