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

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Rex Dieter ha scritto:
> Neal Gompa wrote:
> 
>> 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. 
> 
> Means, it's not an issue specific to any browser (they all suffer 
> similarly), so probably will be a minor issue in *this* decision-making, 
> imo.
> 
>> How do the browsers compare for the Fedora user who wants to get more 
> codec support himself?
> 
> That said, firefox (or any browser utilizing gstreamer) has a slight edge 
> here, due to
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264
> 
> but that's still not great nor a 100% solution, outside of using patented 
> stuff from rpmfusion.org.

And Firefox is deprecating gstreamer anyway in favor of direct ffmpeg usage.
So all browsers are in the same status. My personal speculation about this is
that the solution. if it comes, will be the same for all browsers, but this is
orthogonal to this discussion.

Ciao
-- 
Luigi
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