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From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 13:53:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ek53y0x.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878t4oylu6.fsf@aminb.org> (Amin Bandali's message of "Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:23:45 -0400")

Amin Bandali <amin@gnu.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>>> So the question is: can we push the Chromium package?  I've read it's
>>> almost ready[2].
>>
>> The TODO list for convenience:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> * There is still some data transmitted when starting the browser for the
>>   first time.  It seems related to the "domain_reliability" component.
>> * Remove remaining "Web Store" links.  Currently I've only found it in
>>   settings, under "accessibility" and "fonts".
>> * Opening settings transmits a bunch of data, the next version will
>>   include the 'disable-translation-lang-fetch' patch from Inox.
>> * PDFium is built, but does not seem to work (the 'install' phase
>>   probably needs tweaking).  Might just disable it instead.
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> It would be *very* nice if the first and third items could be solved
>> before merging, but I don’t consider them blockers.  Would someone like
>> to investigate one of these problems?
>>
>> As has been stated multiple times in the discussion of this evolving
>> patch set, we cannot guarantee privacy, but we can make attempts to
>> remove problems as they become known.  This will remain an uphill battle
>> and in future iterations of this package we should try to integrate more
>> patches provided by other groups working on removing anti-features from
>> Chromium.
>
> I highly recommend looking into ungoogled-chromium [0], which
> "modifies Google Chromium to remove Google integration and
> enhance privacy, control, and transparency".  It's not exactly a
> fork, but rather a series of patches and modifications they apply
> to each Chromium release.

There is also the Brave browser

https://brave.com/

>
> In terms of documentation, they have a high-level description of
> the various components and patches [1], and build instructions
> for a few platforms and distros [2].  There was also an attempt
> to make a nix package a while ago [3], which may be helpful to
> look at.
>
> [0]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
> [1]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/design.md
> [2]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/building.md
> [3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/30916

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-01 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-29  9:03 Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Clément Lassieur
2018-08-29 15:24 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-08-29 16:14 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-08-29 18:16 ` Leo Famulari
2018-08-29 21:25 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2018-08-29 22:35   ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-29 23:26     ` Amirouche Boubekki
2018-08-30  7:43       ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30  1:12 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30  5:14   ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30  9:55     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 10:04       ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 11:01         ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 12:09         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 13:30           ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 11:00       ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 16:35     ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30  9:07   ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30  9:20     ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 16:38     ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30  8:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-30  8:54   ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 12:11     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-30 14:23   ` Amin Bandali
2018-09-01 14:08     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-01 17:31       ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-01 20:28         ` Amin Bandali
2018-09-02 13:54           ` Marius Bakke
2018-09-02 16:21             ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-01 17:53     ` Joshua Branson [this message]
2018-09-01 23:18       ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-03 20:57         ` Joshua Branson
2018-09-04  8:13           ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-02  5:33   ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02  6:35     ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02  8:13       ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 10:21       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-02 13:29         ` Marius Bakke
2018-09-02 16:48           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-04 21:44       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-02  6:52     ` Leo Famulari
2018-08-30  9:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-07  9:29   ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-15 10:36     ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-15 10:36       ` [bug#28004] " Clément Lassieur
2018-09-17 13:28       ` Chromium channel Marius Bakke
2018-09-17 14:16         ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-17 14:16           ` [bug#28004] " Clément Lassieur
2018-09-17 18:08           ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-17 17:57         ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-17 17:57           ` [bug#28004] " Pjotr Prins
2018-09-22 12:44         ` Ludovic Courtès
     [not found] <mailman.598.1535619290.1280.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2018-08-30 23:38 ` Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Benjamin Slade
2018-08-31 16:57   ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-09-01 14:13   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-01 18:44     ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-02  4:57     ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-09-05 20:57     ` Christopher Lemmer Webber

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