On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:01 PM, kendell clark <coffeekingms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 01/11/2016 11:51 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Alex G.S. <alxgrtnstrngl@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> Instead you should revise the ticket or file a new one and make this >>> about >>> packaging Chromium so that Fedora users who make Chrome their default can >>> avoid having to use these proprietary schemes. >> >> Someone is already working on that, but it has absolutely nothing to >> do with this thread, the ticket or the issue presented to FESCo. It's >> a completely different situation. Please try to stay on topic, or >> start a new thread. >> > > "Someone please explain to me why chromium/chrome is so popular? Why do most > popular linux distributions either come with it or make it available in it's > repositories? Mind you I'm thinking about this from an accessibility > standpoint, not a usability standpoint. For me and those who cannot see, > chrome is unusable unless you use google's extension. I don't know whether > chromevox and google's tts voices are open source, I suspect not, but that's > really not the point. I'm not worried about chrome/chromium becoming the > default in fedora. I am however concerned that we've become so focused on > getting more users that we're willing to do just about anything to get them. > If that means skype and chrome, so be it. Those just so happen to be > programs I cannot use because they are inaccessible. I'm sorry for those of > you who've had to hear me go on about this, but it's beginning to feel like > I'm being heard, but dismissed. Yeah but most of us have sight so we don't > have to deal with that, is the usual response. No one from fedora has said > this, this is from the wider sighted linux community itself when I bring up > chrome. It seems to have blown up overnight and I can't understand it. It's > proprietary, and takes the best of open source and closes it off. A few reasons, in my own personally believed order of popularity for Chrome: 1. Media "just works". Netflix, amazon video/music, spotify, etc. 2. Per process tabs mean one tab crashing doesn't take down the whole browser 3. Tight integration into the Google ecosystem. 4. For a while, it was much faster than Firefox for typical javascript heavy sites, etc. I believe Firefox has caught up for the most part. Chromium lacks the media aspects, or at least will if/when it gets into Fedora. The rest apply. josh -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
