Re: proposing chromium as default browser (for f25+)

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On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In my prior post, I included chromium in the list of browser candidates.  If
> you're not familiar with it, it is essentially a free version of google
> chrome that recently made it's way into fedora package repositories.
>
> Advantages and features include:
> * based on same rendering engine as qtwebengine (that qupzilla uses)
> * has active, well-supported upstream
> * some kde integration: kde file dialogs, kwallet for secrets
> * supports most chrome addons/extensions
>
> Disadvantages include:
> * pretty new to fedora (only a few weeks)
> * packaging/buildsystem is... messy and fragile (not unique here,
> qtwebengine suffers similarly but less so)
> * not 100% native (like qupzilla)

My biggest concern among all the choices is the multimedia support.
Fedora cannot ship a full-featured codec stack in any of its spins due
to various legal issues. How do the browsers compare for the Fedora
user who wants to get more codec support himself?



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