Chromium

“It is not too much to ask that the Chromium maintainers either 1) test all the combinations of optional flags they have, or 2) declare that some of those optional flags are no longer optional.”

“making the build system convenient, especially convenient for distribution packagers ... is quite a big blocker to the primary goal”

“Chromium itself has had the reputation for eating RAM for well over a decade at this point.”

“On adChromium, audio on youtube videos (also owned by Google) works fine, without me having to change anything.”

“if you just want a Chrome-y browser, you might as well just use Chromium itself”

“as if Google wasn't the one setting the standards, making it impossible for anyone else to be similarly complete”

“Chromium being open source is not a mistake. Letting google be the sole driver and not forking it has been.”

“Furthermore they vendor the entire Rust compiler, library, etc, all of which has to be compiled first before the browser.”

“at least on Chromium it's possible to use Dwarf debugging symbols in debugging your wasm files”

“Chromium is the only browser engine (as far as I know) that gives me access to raw, unaccelerated mouse events”

“compare _hours_ of build time (35 MLOC) to 3 seconds of build time (300K LOC)”

“I am not saying that forks like this are a good idea, but I have enough frustration with said techniques that I sympathize with the effort.”

“which is both good (from abilities standpoint) and bad (when copy of chromium is bundled with every app”

“Those work well also besides shells with Chromium/Chrome/Safari etc. many browsers input fields”

“I only keep a Chromium based browser around because of Mozilla's asinine decision not to support Web Bluetooth and Web USB”

“Consider Chromium (the open source build) instead of Chrome when you migrate to Linux.”

“You have the corresponding FOSS versions (code-oss and chromium) in the main repository.”

“in the Chromium ecosystem, you can use WebUSB and WebSerial to flash and communicate with these things from the browser”

“I wish I could drop it like a bad habit, because frankly Google's shenanigans piss me off on a semi-regular basis.”

“It was very useful for me in the past when a new Chromium version crashed on my product”

“Chromium is so much more performant than Firefox on ARM devices that any difference isn't worth it”

“Chromium exists to help further that goal including, if necessary, being packaged up and shipped with those apps”

“too many features dependent on the full Chrome stack that it's just more pragmatic to use a real Chromium installation”

“chromium/electron IS, nominally, a thin client for HTTP servers, and it'll gladly eat up as much memory as you throw at it”

“It took them a few years to actually fix it since the person who was initially assigned it never bothered”

“I had two experiences where bugs were taking less than a week from report to fix in canary”

“Every Electron app ships with its own copy of Chromium (for rendering the UI) and Node.js (for system APIs).”

“While Chromium works well, there are a few things (like syncing) that is a bit of a pain to set up.”

“Chromium is also some of the most highly invested in software with regards to security.”

“Chromium uses probably the single most advanced sandbox out there, at least for software that users are likely to run into.”

“Chromium even blocked JPEG-XL adoption until there was a safe implementation”

“Although I must admit to the guilty pleasure of gleefully using Chromium-only features in internal apps”

“Sadly as a result of Chromium's overbearing presence, but it's a helpful outcome at least.”

“unlike Chromium it seems like the Mozilla team doesn't really have an interest in keeping up with ARMs latest security features”

“One thing that I appreciate is the "split window" in Chromium instead of adding yet another tab.”

“Chromium is a good example, there’s a decent chance that you’re using a chromium based browser”

“Chromium is still markedly ahead of Firefox on security, especially on mobile.”

“The FOSS builds of VS Code, Chromium, and Android are good examples of high quality FOSS”

“Chromium was able to mitigate Meltdown/Spectre before OS vendors shipped an update”

“Chromium commits are controlled by a pool of Google developers, so it's not open in the sense that anyone can contribute or steer the direction of the project.”