The effort to support Chromium and Firefox (sans ESR) on OpenBSD akin to Windows/macOS/'Linux' has not happened.
-- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Sun, 12 Apr 2020, at 16:49, Raymond, David wrote: > My problem with iridium is that it is based on an older version of > chromium and I am not sure that they keep up with inevitable flow of > security fixes. That said, I am a bit nervous about OpenBSD's lags in > keeping up with browser security fixes. (I'm not criticizing -- I > understand that OpenBSD is a small operation without the people needed > to keep track of non-core packages. And I just converted from Arch > Linux, in which the storm of updates and resulting incompatibilities > drove me crazy and contributed to my shift to OpenBSD. Still, I am a > bit nervous about even slightly out-of-date browsers at this point and > I am not sure that iridium is an improvement in this regard.) > > Dave > > On 4/12/20, Elias M. Mariani <marianiel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not much of a browser savy guy. > > Is Iridium really safer than Chromium? > > Leaving aside the "Google is tracking you!". > > > > Any recommendations on the browser front on performance, security and > > compatibility? > > I've been using Chrome and Chromium for years, but maybe there are > > better alternatives that I'm unaware of... > > > > Cheers. > > Elias. > > > > > > > -- > David J. Raymond > david.raym...@nmt.edu > http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond > >
