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ozamidas

This transitional phase that GNU/Linux is going thru is kind of a pain in the ass, so many apps are caught in the middle.

Chromium for example uses X11 on wayland sessions and as a result of that there are nasty performance penalties and really bad visual bugs; they are changing it in the next release but you can change it via chrome flags.

I don't enjoy the idea of GNU/Linux being in a perpetual state of transitions. We better figure everything out.
#gnulinux #linux #wayland #xorg #chrome

C.

Is that project open-source / free-software?

In practical effect, the answer to this question is not solely dependent on the project's license. It also depends on the project owner or leadership structure.

With community-based projects, this usually doesn't change the answer. But when you have a project with an open-source license which is controlled by a company, you need to ask an additional question:

If the community developers have a change that the project's users want, but which the company that owns the project feels are against its interests, does the change make it into the project or not? [1]

If the answer to this is "Yes, the change goes in, and the company deals with it", then the project is open-source.

If the answer is "No, the company won't include the contribution if it feels it threatens the company's interests", then the project is not open-source, regardless of what the license says. With an appropriate license, you could fork it, and turn it into a community-run project, and *that* would be open source, but the Google/Red Hat/IBM/Oracle/what-have-you original project is not.

Yes, inspired to post by #Google's tantrum about removing #XSLT from #Chrome because the #libxslt maintainer publicly called them out on their #BS.

[1] "If the company has a change the users don't want, does it go in?" too; just two ways of looking at it.

#OpenSource#FreeSoftware#community
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knoppix

Search.com has made a $35B unsolicited bid for Google Chrome 🌐
Backed by JP Morgan, it outbids Perplexity’s earlier $34.5B offer 💼

Both expect Chrome may be spun out due to antitrust pressure ⚖️
Google is likely to resist — any divestiture could take years ⏳
Chrome holds 65% of the global browser market 📊

@niallkitson

techcentral.ie/search-com-outf

TechCentral.ie · Search.com outflanks Perplexity with $35bn bid for Chrome - TechCentral.ieAn unsolicited bid has once again been made for Google’s Chrome browser. Search.com, which was acquired by ad.com in July, is the second company to officially bid for Chrome. The $35 billion bid follows that of Perplexity of $34.5 billion earlier this month. Search.com’s bid is backed by JP Morgan and several private equity parties. [&hellip
#Searchcom#Perplexity#Google
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st3fan

Warum ich weiter Firefox benutze, auch wenn Mozilla nicht alles richtig macht?
Weil die Browserengine Gecko weiterhin eine, wenn nicht "die" eigenständige, freie Alternative zu Google Chrome/Chromium und Apple Web-Kit ist!

Möglicher Verkauf von Google Chrome: Was bedeutet das für Nutzer?
Chrome basiert zudem auf der Browser-Engine Chromium, einem Open-Source-Projekt, dessen technische Kernfunktionen auch von Browsern wie Microsoft Edge, Opera, Brave und Vivaldi genutzt werden. Durch diese breite Verbreitung kann Google technische Standards im Web stark beeinflussen, was Konkurrenten benachteiligt.
https://www.rnd.de/wirtschaft/moeglicher-verkauf-von-google-chrome-was-bedeutet-das-fuer-nutzer-E5ECCJPYJJFKJC7DWTBSFIWJ5Q.html

Aravind Srinivas, der CEO von Perplexity, hat Interesse am Chrome-Browser.
RedaktionsNetzwerk DeutschlandMöglicher Verkauf von Google Chrome: Was bedeutet das für Nutzer?Der beliebte Chrome-Browser von Google könnte womöglich bald den Besitzer wechseln. Grund ist ein Kartellrechtsverfahren gegen den Konzern – und die KI-Firma Perplexity hat Interesse bekundet. Was könnte das für die Unternehmen und für Nutzerinnen und Nutzer bedeuten?
#google#chrome#chromium
ResearchBuzz: Firehose

How-To Geek: Here’s My Secret to Staying Focused on Chrome Without Relying on Extensions. “What’s the harm in visiting a time-wasting website for a few minutes? This is a question I constantly ask myself. But whether it’s due to a notification or a recommendation on Chrome’s startup page, I end up wasting hours of productivity time by failing to control myself and opening a dozen more useless […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/18/how-to-geek-heres-my-secret-to-staying-focused-on-chrome-without-relying-on-extensions/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · How-To Geek: Here’s My Secret to Staying Focused on Chrome Without Relying on Extensions | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#browsers#chrome#google
Wulfy

Long thread how #Chrome is going to fuck off #RSS because as a small company of T(T-with a trillion), they can't afford the resources.

social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz

social.cryptography.dogansuz / ऐरन (@ansuz@social.cryptography.dog)chrome developers: we are thinking of dropping support for rendering RSS feeds as something other than garbage code. does anyone have any reasons not to do this? developers from many different backgrounds: yes, I rely on normal people being able to understand RSS for my business. dropping support will be disastrous for me because I can't rely on people to have some random extension installed. chrome devs: OK well we're probably going to do it anyway because we can't be bothered to support web standards. uwu google is only a teensy wee company uwu https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523 #xslt #standards #openWeb
#browsers#FFS
Miro (Micr0byte)

After careful consideration and extensive financial analysis, I am hereby formally submitting a bid to @google to acquire the Google Chrome browser project for the sum of $10.00 USD (ten dollars).

This represents a significant premium over current market conditions and demonstrates my serious commitment to browser innovation. Payment can be made via Venmo, PayPal, or cash.

My qualifications/plans include:

  • I have used Chrome before when i was 6
  • I promise to keep the dinosaur game
  • I will make it foss

This offer stands until end of business today (5 PM EST, negotiable).

#Chrome#GoogleChrome#BrowserWars
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Lauren Weinstein

On my usual national network radio tech segment this Monday, I'll be discussing why any decision to separate #Google from their #Chrome browser (e.g., Perplexity's recent $35 billion offer, or required by a judge as an antitrust remedy, etc.) would likely be a security and privacy disaster for billions of Chrome users around the world.

LFA

What happens when standards and proven technologies doesn't suit big tech interests? 🧵

1.They, and the "foundations" people they pay, get together and create a Working Group (for the public interest, of course).

2.Then they "democratically" create and dismiss standards as they want (because they control the marketplace).

Don't believe it? You can see this machinery in action here (censorship included)
github.com/whatwg/html/issues/

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart f...
GitHubShould we remove XSLT from the web platform? · Issue #11523 · whatwg/htmlBy mfreed7
#Mozilla#Google#Apple
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