On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Dylan McCall <dylanmcc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've posted this on the debian-devel mailing list as well. This was >> posted out of a concern that Canoncial is thinking about switching >> over to Chromium in later releases as Lubuntu has done already. I have >> seen articles of this possibility as well. I don't feel making >> Chromium the default browser is appropriate until the privacy issues >> are addressed. I also feel that taking care these issues before a >> switch to Chromium is even seriously considered is beneficial to >> everyone. > > Given that the privacy concerns have been neatly documented[1] by > Google including instructions on disabling the offending features, I > can't shake the doubt that they could ever be addressed in some > peoples' opinions. > [1] http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=114836&hl=en-GB > > Granted, I may just be ill informed. Is there some detail being missed > in that document? > > It's not that I have anything against Iron, of course, though I am > slightly wary of their website and apparent lack of a source > repository. Doesn't feel brilliantly maintained. Maybe they just need > a gentle nudge in Launchpad's direction. > With regards to packaging, there is a Launchpad PPA with daily builds > of Chromium, so they surely have sorted out any installation and > packaging quirks in that source repository. Perhaps you can get a diff > with Iron's changes, and if you're incredibly lucky it'll apply > smoothly. Could save you some work :) > > > Dylan >
A Launchpad PPA of SRWare Iron would solve all my concerns. Also, quite a few of the issues could be resolved by disabling certain features in Chromium by default. This includes disabling the URL suggestion features and the DNS pre-fetching features. These features are best left as opt-in IMO. Thanks, Ryan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
