Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: Status of google chrome and chromium

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:58:20 +0100
Graziano <address@hidden> wrote:

> Yavor Doganov ha scritto:
> > A.J. Venter wrote:
> >> On the plugin side, there is also a catch - I can find no way to
> >> make chromium use gnash or libsfw
> > 
> > I guess it could be easily changed to use Gnash or swfdec (or both).
> > 
> > I wonder, however, what's so special about this browser that you
> > took the premature decision to make it the default?
> > 
> > IMO it is a bad decision to make a "foreign" (in the GUI/toolkit
> > sense) application the default -- if GNOME is the default desktop
> > for your distro, Epiphany is the only sane choice as it integreates
> > best with the desktop.  Likewise for KDE & Konqeror.
> 
> 
> Agree.
> 
> We have GNU IceCat too:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla

Unlike epiphany, this integrates badly with the desktop though (equally
badly, but badly).

> I don't trust google.

if the code they provide is free software, and doesn't show signs of
their usual data mining, our trust levels shouldn't play a part in that
decision making process :)
kk

PS. I don't trust them either ;)

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