Web browser. Firefox and Linux.

cascade9 · 10-01-2012, 03:37 AM

Firefox/iceweasel, with opera for a secondary/backup browser here.

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Originally Posted by JaseP

Chrome/Chromium = Open Source = Open Minded = short history + rapid development + many new plug-ins = Very promising.

Chrome is NOT open source. Yeah, its based on chromium which is open, but google closes the code to make chrome.

JaseP · 10-01-2012, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by cascade9

Firefox/iceweasel, with opera for a secondary/backup browser here.

Chrome is NOT open source. Yeah, its based on chromium which is open, but google closes the code to make chrome.

Other way around... Google open sources that part of Chrome, into Chromium, that they feel doesn't violate license issues. Chrome sees development first... Same as with Android...

cascade9 · 10-01-2012, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by JaseP

Other way around... Google open sources that part of Chrome, into Chromium, that they feel doesn't violate license issues. Chrome sees development first..

Not true. Chromium code is taken by google, then closed into chrome.

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Chromium is the open source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code.

Chromium is the name given to the open source project and the browser source code released and maintained by the Chromium Project. It is possible to download the source code and build it manually on many platforms. Google takes this source code and adds:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29

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The Chromium projects include Chromium and Chromium OS, the open-source projects behind the Google Chrome browser and Google Chrome OS, respectively.

http://www.chromium.org/

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In short, Google Chrome is the Chromium open source project built, packaged, and distributed by Google.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/w...VsGoogleChrome

catkin · 10-01-2012, 04:49 AM

I primarily use Firefox and also use Opera (some pages don't show well in Firefox). Recently I am using a netbook so have started to use Midori because it is lighter than Firefox and Opera.

JaseP · 10-01-2012, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by cascade9

Not true. Chromium code is taken by google, then closed into chrome.

From the links you posted, I see they release under a BSD license,... So, you are right, and I stand corrected ... After the initial releases, they HAVE been releasing Chromium versions first,... I had assumed it was a GPL or Apache license... But, you know what happens when you assume.

But I would argue that the development is very probably largely concurrent, with Chromium being released first for political/PR reasons (countering the flack they've taken on Android)... But, I'm a cynic.

But, anyway, I was wrong and you were right...

cascade9 · 10-02-2012, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by JaseP

But I would argue that the development is very probably largely concurrent, with Chromium being released first for political/PR reasons (countering the flack they've taken on Android)... But, I'm a cynic.

IMO google has been very clever.

Do some work on a browser, release it under the right licence, then take a backseat on development while taking whatever code you want to release as closed source, while also banging on about how supportive you are of open source.