The #Chromium update that drops #WebExtensions v2 is finally here. A sad day for the open Internet.
The #Chromium update that drops #WebExtensions v2 is finally here. A sad day for the open Internet.
ICYMI, a while back I did release my #macOS app, Browser Actions.
BA lets you use #Apple #Shortcuts to automate #GoogleChrome, #MicrosoftEdge, #Vivaldi, #Chromium, #BraveBrowser, and #Safari – with actions for navigating, working with forms, clicking page elements, handling windows & tabs, getting data out, and more!
https://actions.work/browser-actions?ref=mastodon-b1
14d trial, perpetual licenses, no subs.
(I'd really appreciate some boosts – it's hard to get new apps noticed, and I'm struggling quite a bit
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Here's an opportunity for an enterprising American developer to create a browser plug-in that, upon visiting popular shopping websites, will display the prices of goods as they are today, side by side with the price goods will realistically have after Trump's 145% tax on Chinese products, and other such "tariffs".
Updated today.
Open Chromium vulnerabilities, some assigned, some new. It's a long list: https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=status:open #Google #Chromium #cybersecurity #infosec
Chromium 135.0.7049.114 hangs sporadically #chromium
Good god.
% ls -ld .org.chromium.Chromium.* | wc -l
3808
Wenn #Google auf seinen #Browser #Chrome verzichten würde, dann würde meines Erachtens #Chromium bleiben, oder?
US-Regierung hält an Aufspaltung Googles fest – auch KI im Blick | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/US-Regierung-haelt-an-Aufspaltung-Googles-fest-auch-KI-im-Blick-10357666.html #ChromeBrowser #Gemini #GoogleSuche #GoogleSearch #GoogleGemini
@GrapheneOS
Only found this forum post about Web USB with #Vanadium: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/20965-web-bluetooth-in-vandium-appears-nonfunctional
Why is it disabled in all of the #chromium forks?
Anybody has a #obtanium configuration to get a chromium apk from google?
If #OpenAI ends up buying #Chrome from Google, the days of an open source #chromium browser are numbered. #oss #opensource.
Aha, #Chromium killt meinen Adblocker. Dann kille ich halt Chromium.
Well, dann machen wir wohl mal die lange aufgeschobene Migration zu #firefox. Sicher, Pest oder Cholera, aber immerhin mit Adblocker.
Browser Choice Is an Accessibility Consideration, by @beeps:
https://beeps.website/blog/2025-03-29-browser-choice-is-an-accessibility-consideration/
The Chrome extension ecosystem is such a valuable element of #Brave (and other #Chromium based browsers).
For example, Roam with #Mastodon finally makes Mastodon usable from your browser! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/roam-...
Roam with Mastodon - Chrome We...
#GWB - So will Google den Chrome-Browser retten: Entwicklung wird verteilt – hunderte Millionen Dollar Betriebskosten - https://www.googlewatchblog.de/2025/04/so-will-google-den-chrome-browser-retten-entwicklung-wird-verteilt-hunderte-millionen-dollar-betriebskosten/ #googlechrome #chromium #Google
Here are comments on the evolution of browser share in a year.
(The three samples are heavily skewed to English-speaking higher eds.)
Last year results: https://techhub.social/@estelle/112047924116566034
You may still answer in the previous toot.
3/4 Fediverse members use #Firefox proper. Same as last year.
We welcome other parts of the Firefox family (any browser with Gecko inside):
• The share of Librewolf mentions doubled since last year.
• The share of other Gecko-based forks mentions also doubled since last year. (Even though some Waterfox usage is not logged because i did not list it.)
The shares of Chrome and Vivaldi were stable for the first thousand answerers (maybe more IT inclined) but doubled with the later thousand (in the last 24 hours).
The share of the last line (Opera-Blink-Brave mentions) decreased since last year.
Anyone remember the time when Chrome was considered a resource hog (mostly because it had better isolation between tabs)
I feel #Firefox is worse now. I run #Chromium too but firefox does seem to deteriorate more than #Chromium
Having had firefox get killed by the OS I've just done a "swapoff -a; swapon -a" to make the system more responsive again
Which browsers do you use?
• Multiple choice to account for various usage and any device (pro & perso)
• You may boost to enlarge the sample
Show HN: We Put Chromium on a Unikernel (OSS Apache 2.0)
Link: https://github.com/onkernel/kernel-images
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705144