[vox] How to fix Google Chrome browser apt sources.list entry

[Bob Scofield]

I don't trust Google for reasons I won't go into.  I'd rather use 
Firefox, which I mostly do, and Chromium.  But I've had to go from 
Chromium to Chrome.

Both for my business, and for a Spanish class I took last year, I had to 
use Chrome because I was get functionality that I cannot get with either 
Firefox or Chromium.  I've taken Chromium off my computer.  In fact my 
ability to use Chrome for my business is a major development supporting 
my decision to take Windows off my desktop when Windows 7 expires at the 
end of 2019.  I've already taken it off my laptop.

My Firefox on Windows is buggy.

I've done the fix Bill mentions.  But according to what I've read on the 
Internet this will have to be done again the next time there's a Chrome 
update, unless Google fixes the problem.

Bob

On 03/17/2016 01:26 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Mark's tech help (markindavis at hush.com):
>
>> Pretty sure I'll go with Chromium--  my understanding is that it's
>> completely open source, & Community-maintained, yes?  Whereas Goog,
>> OTOH, has always troubled me some wrt to their status as
>> megaconglomerating megacorporation, etc..
> Chromium's completely open source, _but_ last I heard the 'community
> maintained' bit was very much not true.  My recollection is that it's
> 100% internally produced -- and also its architecture is totally under
> the control of Google, Inc. (whose business model is as you suggest
> somewhat at odds with user interest).
>
> Cynics are tempted to see a connection that fact and the fact that
> Chromium implementations of things like NoScript have historically been
> less effective.
>
> Of course, the funding model for Mozilla Corporation raises some of the
> same questions, but not to the same degree.
>
> Noted without comment: this new thing, expected to be available for
> testing in June:
> http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/03/15/mozillas-super-speedy-new-browser-will-hit-alpha-june/
>
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