> They do not support anything but the current version > unbuildable on a stable Debian release because they freely import dependencies > They don't even support RHEL 6
you have this /backwards/, your _software_distributor_ isn't supporting Chromium. there are literally tens of thousands of distros, so expecting a software vendor to make a backported package for $MY_FAV_DISTRO is narcissistic at best. --Gravis On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:48 PM, John Morris <jmor...@beau.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 21:09 -0500, Jude Nelson wrote: >> > Besides issues related to Chromium's poor support for privacy features, >> > it also has no real security support. >> >> No comment on the privacy features, but I beg to differ on the security. >> The fact that the Linux build of Chromium runs each tab and plugin in its >> own seccomp'ed process and runs them all separately from a "kernel" process >> puts the browser worlds ahead of Firefox in terms of security. Excluding >> project Electrolysis (which I look forward to), the fact that Firefox runs >> every tab in the same process means that one bad tab can compromise the >> whole browser without too much effort. By contrast, Chromium's >> kernel/process-per-tab factoring has led to secure browser designs [1] >> where this class of exploit and others are provably impossible. > > Methinks you missed the point. Forget the kewl tech and concentrate on > the people problem. Chromium/Chrome can't be secure on a Linux based on > Debian, period. Full stop, end of discussion. They do not support > anything but the current version and it quickly becomes unbuildable on a > stable Debian release because they freely import dependencies on every > new and shiny bit they see and expect it to be present in the very > latest version. > > They don't even support RHEL 6, you have to grovel around on the > Internet for wildly unsupported and dubious procedures (involving > repackaging Fedora binary packages and shoving them down /opt and > LD_LIBRARY_PATH trickery) to keep Chrome running, I know because I'm > supporting fifty some odd workstations right now running CentOS 6 and > need more than one browser available. They didn't just drop support for > 6 when RHEL 7/Centos 7 shipped, no they dropped it over a year before > the beta for 7 even appeared. And that is the 'Enterprise' distro with > the big corporate accounts; Google doesn't give a crap. Moz didn't > either, but when enough large sites complained about the constant > version churn they at least delivered an LTS version. > > They are far worse than Moz when it comes to treating Linux > (Android/Linux and Chrome/Linux excepted of course) as a red headed > stepchild. If you want Chrome you run Windows, ChromeOS or a bleeding > edge Linux distro. > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
