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[GNU-linux-libre] Re: Status of google chrome and chromium
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Daniel Clark |
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[GNU-linux-libre] Re: Status of google chrome and chromium |
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Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:36:28 -0500 |
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jaromil wrote:
>
> re all,
>
> more on Chromium / Iron:
>
> I've been using Iron now for a while and it very much resembles
> Chromium; after being generally happy with the speed of the software,
> I was looking for more precise informations about the patches applied
> by Iron - then today a friend (Google employee) passed me this link:
>
> http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html
>
> I still didn't do a code review on Iron myself, nor even diff'd its
> source against Chromium's trunk, however the above link reads like a
> veritable analysis to me that, along with the poor documentation on
> Iron that its developers provide, basically erodes my trust for futher
> usage.
Yeah that, plus the iron site has more ads than http://x10.com
> I'm now opting for Chromium, nevertheless it would be really nice if
> the GNU project can host a patch-set that is peer-reviewed for
> characteristics that we regard as freedom and privacy respecting.
>
> All doe there might be no need for that at all: from what I can hear
> in informal conversations among Google developers, it seems that the
> Chromium codebase might conform with our requirements.
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