That IS unfortunate, but sensible. Things are shitty now. You need to not trust people.
I don't trust code I either can't see, or in the case of Windows, know that they have more to lose than they have to gain by fucking me over. On Aug 15, 2012 10:02 PM, "Jerry Kemp" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 08/15/12 10:02 AM, Robbie Crash wrote: > > Chrome/Chromium is a better browser than Firefox in essentially every > > single way. Promoting a better browser is not shameful, it's good > customer > > service. > > I'm not going to argue with you here, but I will say that my experiences > have been the opposite. At least on the Mac (Chromium vs. Firefox). > > Regardless, options are good. > > > > > Chromium is fully open source. The difference is that Google Chrome is a > > customized Chromium build. The same as the build on Ubuntu is different > > than the build on Windows. The differences are outlined here: > > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome. If > > you're on a system with Chrome installed, you can either launch it > > incognito, which disables all their 'proprietary trackers', or you can > > disable all of them through settings. > > > > FWIW, back in April 2011, some guy named ruben did a successful compile > of Chrome and put his URL up on the desktop-discuss list. The body from > his email message is posted below. > > Don't bother clicking the link, his stuff is gone now. You could > probably find his site on the Wayback machine if you really wanted to. > > Anyway, for those of you who remember the follow on discussion, it > wasn't one of thanks for your hard efforts. Several people posted > messages of distrust because the package(s) were not available from > Google, Illumos or Sun/Oracle, or a site they were familiar with. > > It was a sad discussion to observe, and I felt bad for the guy who > jumped through all the hoops he did get get it working. > > Jerry > > > > > ....................................................... > > > Hello, I recently ported Chromium 10, the open source base of the > > current Google Chrome 10 stable browser, to Solaris 5.11 snv_151a. A > > test build for i386 is available here: > > > http://chromium.hybridsource.org > > > > There are a couple issues I'm still ironing out, as written in the > > notes. Thanks to James Choi for his early patches from last year that > > got this Solaris port going. > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
