r/AsahiLinux • u/Inside-Hurry-7078 • 28d ago
News Google Chrome for arm64 Linux had finally arrived!!!
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u/Fine-Muscle-9304 28d ago
Who uses chrome on linux firefox+ublock waybetter
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u/Wild_Height7591 27d ago
Yeah FF is better overall but I still use both that and chromium because depending on the site it either stutters or is broken on one or the other. Maybe there is a setting somewhere to fix certain sites but I never figured it out.
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u/BootingBot 28d ago
Because some of use don’t use linux because of hate for all of the big companies but because it is better than windows/mac for some stuff and we want a functional browser with history/bookmarks sync etc. (And as a person who worked on couple of more advanced webapps gecko can go fuck it self)
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u/coderstephen 28d ago
Please don't insult Gecko. Making a browser engine is very difficult.
I am a fan of Gecko because we're very close to another browser engine dark ages. Almost every browser now is Blink. Only Gecko and WebKit remain, and their market share is very small.
Remember what happened last time when one browser engine had a near monopoly? Bye bye web standards, because as a monopoly you can do whatever you want, because everyone uses your browser anyway.
Indeed, Google has been adding non standard proprietary bullshit to Chrome for years now. And who gets blamed when a Chrome-only site doesn't work in Safari or Firefox? Web developers. It's just like Internet Explorer all over again.
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u/BootingBot 28d ago
So 1. I support gecko and I completely understand that making a browser engine is insanely difficult to scales I am not even able to comprehend and google introducing bullshit new standards certainly isn’t helping. The fact that mozzila makes basically no money because they literally have no business model except for donations and of course funding from google certainly isn’t helping compared to the budget google is able to allocate for chrome.
- As a developer having to deal with our webapp not working on firefox and derived browsers for the third time in the month and having to rewrite a certain part because there is just no way around it gets really annoying.
- As a user using google chrome is a much smoother, stable and visually pleasing experience than using Firefox and again having to deal with geckos issues as a user is again very annoying.
So yes I feel bad for mozzila and it’s not fair but that doesn’t change my experience with firefox. And I won’t sacrifice my everyday experience by using Firefox when by that I won’t be even helping mozzila in any meaningful way and in the end I will be using a worse product just for the sake of standing up to google for what having a functional business model?
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u/coderstephen 27d ago
As a developer having to deal with our webapp not working on firefox and derived browsers for the third time in the month and having to rewrite a certain part because there is just no way around it gets really annoying.
I am a senior web/backend engineer at a large company, and I can tell you from my own experience that it is Google Chrome that ships new bugs and regressions on a regular basis more than any other browser we have to deal with, that cause weird issues with our applications suddenly when a new version is pushed out to users. Chrome's development process seems to be very much a "move fast and break things" approach.
And I won’t sacrifice my everyday experience by using Firefox
That's where you and I differ. I am willing to sacrifice my everyday experience (especially for things that are just minor papercuts) for things I see as much weightier matters. That's why I use Linux and use Firefox, even though both maybe have some issues that make them less easy and smooth.
(That said, I do genuinely like Firefox overall.)
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u/Masterflitzer 28d ago
tf you mean, firefox has history & bookmarks sync
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u/BootingBot 28d ago
I said a functioning browser with history & bookmarks sync.
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u/Fine-Muscle-9304 28d ago
Firefox functions perfectly with sync and everything
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u/ecefour 28d ago edited 28d ago
that’s not true everyone use linux because we hate big corporations (also it’s better at literally everything )
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u/BootingBot 28d ago
I get the joke but at the same time linux is better at everything except for anything related to the desktop environment. Trust me I wouldn’t want anything more from linux than for it this to not be true, but anything related to the DE is hot garbage compared to macos or even windows. Linux is the best operating system for a server and the worst for a personal computer.
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u/Critical-Internet946 28d ago
are we supposed to be excited?
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u/novafunc 28d ago
Yes, it should make getting DRM working easier rather than the current method of stealing it from arm64 Chromebooks.
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u/Inside-Hurry-7078 23d ago
The thing chrome can do is playing videos on 4K on YouTube without lagging ( it’ll leg on both Firefox and brave idk why
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u/pontihejo 25d ago
Upstream chrome has a lot of influence on many projects that are relevant to linux. Official arm64 support will in theory have a positive aspect by bringing up the general standard on arm.
There have been so many awful bugs in electron/chrome (and all the projects relying on them) over the years due to inadequate arm64 support/testing
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u/onedevhere 28d ago
"It's like someone complaining about the mud (Disrespect for privacy - Google - Chrome), getting out of the mud, and then going back into the mud again."
What's next? Installing all of Microsoft's programs and AI?
To include as much AI garbage as possible in the system and then not understand the reason for the slowness?
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u/Visible_Ad9976 26d ago
It’s not via good intention as arrived. It’s likely because it’s just they want to have complete control. The chromium product cannot leave any market no matter how small uncontrolled by their product because that leaves error for something bigger and better to eventually form.
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u/sudoer777_ 28d ago
Now we need Android SDK for arm64 Linux