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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 scialex · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But OTOH it is consistently inconsistent. On any OS/platform you can be fairly certain that if you fire up chrome/chromium it will look almost exactly the same.
    Furthermore the fact is that chrome's ui is quickly becoming the standard browser ui. Both IE 9 and Firefox whatever the hell version they are at now look very similar to it.

  4. Customization by Darkness404 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The one thing that keeps me from switching to Chrome is the lack of customization. With Firefox I have the wonderful about:config, but Chrome has no such feature. Even basic settings like moving where the tabs are or fine-grained privacy settings are missing from Chrome and most Chrome derived browsers.

    Until Firefox somehow becomes totally unusable or Chrome actually lets me change basic settings, I'm sticking with Firefox.

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  5. Re:6 spinoffs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was a pretty immature and petty thing to do, but well within their rights.

    They had no choice. Debian, being a free distro, couldn't use Firefox's non-free logo. So they didn't, and Mozilla decided to give them the finger:

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project#Origins_of_the_issue_and_of_the_Iceweasel_name :

    In February 2006, Mike Connor, representing the Mozilla Corporation, wrote to the Debian bug tracker and informed the project that Mozilla did not consider the way in which Debian was using the Firefox name to be acceptable.