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Chromium-Based Spinoffs Worth Trying

Posted by samzenpus on from the best-of-the-lot dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Serdar Yegulalp takes an in-depth look at six Chromium-based spinoffs that bring privacy, security, social networking, and other interesting twists to Google's Chrome browser. 'When is it worth ditching Chrome for a Chromium-based remix? Some of the spinoffs are little better than novelties. Some have good ideas implemented in an iffy way. But a few point toward some genuinely new directions for both Chrome and other browsers.'"

5 of 185 comments (clear)

  1. Re:F-I-R-S-T by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Extra crap like a bundled closed-source Flash plugin?

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  2. Re:6 spinoffs by bonch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I know, those names are so weird and have no relation to web-browsing.

    Excuse me while I use Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.

  3. Re:And none with a decent interface. by MarkRose · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Chrome's UI is not the most intuitive but I like how minimalistic it is, and how it saves the most amount of screen space for the actual task at hand: viewing web pages.

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  4. Re:6 spinoffs by hedwards · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure it is, if you want to package something that's not Firefox, but just uses 99.9% of the code you typically just fork it. Or you do like Linux Mint and change the name and add a patchset over the top.

    I seriously wonder if the Debian guys would be cool if I took their source modified it in a few subtle ways and then released it as "Debian." I could be wrong, but I doubt very much that they would be cool with it, because what I'd be distributing wouldn't be Debian and they'd have to deal with the consequences if things went wrong.

  5. Re:6 spinoffs by Microlith · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The GPL is based around the notion that people using their code have to be forced to release it.

    Not people using, people redistributing.

    Minor nitpick.