Chromium suddenly starts downloading a binary blob

Posted Jun 19, 2015 14:40 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566)
Parent article: Chromium suddenly starts downloading a binary blob

This is unfortunate, I was getting ready to jump ship back in their direction after Mozilla's recent spree of similar bad behaviour.

NetSurf looks mighty appealing right now...

Chromium suddenly starts downloading a binary blob

Posted Jun 25, 2015 7:03 UTC (Thu) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link] (3 responses)

Heh. I'm too desperately looking for alternatives to Firefox. But leaving Firefox to land on Chromium would be to "leap out of the pan to land in the flames" as an old Spanish saying goes :-)

The problem is not the bad intentions of the makers. I assume the best intentions from the Mozilla and the Google folks involved. Still, their vision is skewed by the POV of their "companies", and by the shiny and the technically interesting (which I sympatize tooroughly with).

I think this needs some counterweight to stay viable and socially useful (IOW to "keep them honest), that's all.

Chromium suddenly starts downloading a binary blob

Posted Jun 25, 2015 22:03 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (2 responses)

> would be to "leap out of the pan to land in the flames" as an old Spanish saying goes :-)

"Out of the frying pan, into the fire" is the English version of the saying.

Cheers,
Wol

Chromium suddenly starts downloading a binary blob

Posted Jun 27, 2015 2:42 UTC (Sat) by dashesy (guest, #74652) [Link] (1 responses)

"Getting out of a ditch only to fall into a pit" is the Persian version.

Chromium suddenly starts downloading a binary blob

Posted Jun 29, 2015 8:41 UTC (Mon) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

> "Out of the frying pan, into the fire" is the English version of the saying.

> "Getting out of a ditch only to fall into a pit" is the Persian version.

In Poland it's "Out from the rain to under the downspout".