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by presootto 4419 days ago
Firefox is Free software, Chrome is proprietary and made by the company that employs this guy: http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/84829703425/r...

I know what I'd choose.
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quarterto 4419 days ago
Chromium is open source.
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kijin 4419 days ago
I'm tired of hearing that argument. Chromium !== Chrome.

Call me back when Chromium, not Chrome, wins a 20% share of the browser market.

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lern_too_spel 4419 days ago
Chrome is simply a packaging of Chromium with nonfree third-party plugins: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo...

There is no such thing as Chromium browser, just packages of Chromium source built by different distributors like Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc. You might ask to be called back when a particular packaging other than Chrome gets significant share, but if you ask when Chromium (including all packagings) gets significant share, that's already happened.

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kijin 4419 days ago
The whole point of the "Chrome is proprietary" argument is that we don't know exactly what Google added to Chromium.

Since the diff between Chrome and Chromium is not open-source, there's no way to verify that Google only added what they claim to have added. For example, we wouldn't know if they slipped in an NSA backdoor along with a bunch of plugins.

"Trust but Verify": https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2014/01/14/trust-but-verify...

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pekk 4419 days ago
It's an essentially identical browser. The main difference is the branding it ships with. The experience is very much the same.
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warcode 4419 days ago
Sadly, Chromium on windows has been nothing but an unstable mess for me.
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dubcanada 4419 days ago
Chrome is not proprietary. It's just a fork of WebKit which is entirely open source. Chromium/blink are both open source.
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pavanky 4419 days ago
> Chrome is proprietary Use chromium instead.

> the company that employs this guy: http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/84829703425/r

Mozilla employs someone who is (was?) anti-gay marriage.

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Ygg2 4419 days ago 

    > Mozilla employs someone who is (was?) anti-gay marriage.
Funny that Mozilla had employed a stance, but grammar aside, Brendan Eich isn't employed in Mozilla anymore. In fact he quit under pressure for contributing to an anti-gay marriage campaign.

Eric S. is as far as I know still employed by Google.

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