[clue] Chromium.

Chris Fedde chris at fedde.us
Mon Mar 9 10:30:22 MDT 2015


It's interesting and enlightening to expand the time frame of that plot.
It appears to go back to 2008.  BTW glancing at the spreadsheet data it
appears that chromium is part of the "other" line.   Of course quality and
popularity might not be coupled at all.


On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Duncan Fedde <duncan at fedde.us> wrote:

> 1) Chrome is a variant of Chromium, not the other way around.
> 2) Chrome seams to be the preferred browser among developers.
> 3) here are some statistics over the last year http://gs.statcounter.com/
> 4) Chrome is default on android devices many people read news on there
> phone
> 5) I agree all browsers suck.
>
> To plug a project I want to see succeed:
> If we are talking about browsers checkout https://vivaldi.com/ it's
> developed by the people that made opera and even the technical preview
> seams pretty cool.
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 9:44 PM, <foo7775 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I personally don't allow Chrome (or any of it's variants) on any machine
>> that I control.  Knock on wood, so far I haven't found anything that I
>> haven't been able to access without it.
>>
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>> *From: *"David L. Anselmi" <anselmi at anselmi.us>
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>> *Sent: *Sunday, March 8, 2015 7:46:29 PM
>> *Subject: *[clue] Chromium.
>>
>>
>> I read[1] that "...I suspect the bulk of LWN's readership is using Chrome
>> or Chromium."
>>
>> Do you think that's true or just "it's what I use so everyone like me
>> must as well?"  Why would
>> someone think that?
>>
>> I've used it on a tablet where it was installed by default (and Firefox
>> was not).  But I've never
>> installed it on any of my machines and I've never heard that it was more
>> wonderful than everything.
>>   Seems more likely that all browsers suck (but I have noticed some of my
>> coworkers use it).
>>
>> Dave
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