Re: Is it time to allow Chromium in Fedora?

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>> *if* you use binary tarballs they *should not* be extracted in a user
>> writeable location as *no binary* whenever possible should have
>> permissions allowing a ordinary user to change them
> 
> This is simply not the way how end users install original Mozilla
> Firefox binaries.
> 

In addition, if you have write access to ~/, you can also change .bashrc
to add paths to executable files and do all sorts of other nasty things.

FWIW I run Mozilla's Firefox nightly builds and they work perfectly fine
on Fedora. I've also found the lag behind the official releases
annoying, also for some other large end-user packages (blender), for no
perceived benefit. But it's not especially painful.
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