Ungoogled-chromium: I love ungoogled-chromium

[CardealRusso]

Damn, i love this. I can't use a computer without this web browser.

[Eloston]

Thanks! Glad you're liking it.

[macandchief]

Same here!

Great project, fantastic work, well done.

[tonowoe]

Same! Especially the pre-built packages are SUPER helpful. I love how they get updated fast for debian.

[Obsessive]

Moved from Firefox quantum to Chrome thanks to this project ;)

[Eloston]

@Obsessive Huh, that's not something your hear everyday. Out of curiosity, what made you switch?

[UnnoTed]

I wrote a extension to make it easier to install extensions from the webstore by following the url method stated in the faq, All that it does is get chrome's version and extension's id and insert it into the crx url, The #extension-mime-request-handling flag is still required.
https://github.com/UnnoTed/Ungoogled-Chromium-Extension-Installer

[ghost]

Moved from Firefox quantum to Chrome thanks to this project ;)

For me it is because Firefox is far worse on the privacy side. If you tcpdump it - not only it connects to Google (for unsafe browsing and who knows what else) but also to other hosts of Amazon, Akamai, Mozilla (for telemetry and what not), OCSP etc. Chromium at least communicates only with 1 entity. Of course through certain combinations of about:config settings Firefox background chatter can be reduced but it requires quite a lot of fine tuning and constant monitoring as in new versions they keep adding more and more "features". When I reported all that to Mozilla they ignored and closed my bug reports, didn't update their documentation about how to stop background communication and as a whole behave in a very repulsive way. People who trust "non-profit" Mozilla (actually a multimillion dollar corporation) are very mislead imo.

[Kherby]

I love it as well!! <3
I'm using ungoogled chromium for all my GUI based network devices and never had any problem with it...
For normal browsing i still use a customized Firefox ESR 52, with noscript, uBlock Origin and a few more addons.
Firefox only sucks with youtube 4k content... On my i5 7200u Notebook youtube 4k content is causing ~65% CPU load where Chrome only needs ~12% CPU and ~15% iGPU load for the same 4k content!

[Eloston]

@intika

May be i am crazy using all those stuff lol... and i did even not talked about android lol

Lots of people like to play with their systems, whether it be a desktop, server, DIY electrical device, car modding, etc. You're definitely not alone.

i was a little skeptical when i first find it because of the lack of website and the given name to the project

Interesting. I tend to go to GitHub (or similar services) to see what a project is like, because it allows me to see attributes that aren't visible on a website; e.g. development activity, code quality, stability, the kind of atmosphere it promotes, etc.

But that's just my opinion. Others prefer websites for a variety of reasons, and that's understandable. (If you would be interested in helping to make the website, we should discuss more in #335.)

[intika]

Interesting. I tend to go to GitHub (or similar services) to see what a project is like, because it allows me to see attributes that aren't visible on a website; e.g. development activity, code quality, stability, the kind of atmosphere it promotes, etc.

Yeah me too but for a project like a browser (even if it's a fork) i expected to see more than a git, i know now the background but back then i was like "this is someone who are playing with chromium this is not serious and may be it will not survive a long time" but as i already said after digging in it's a whole other story... as we say "first impression is a bitch" lol

[ericdmoore]

+1 for this product. Gave you a shout out here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18047418

[niftylettuce]

@Eloston you should set up a donation link with PayPal, Patreon, or Open Collective so you can work on this more 👍

[ghost]

"respecting our users is at the core of what we do" is the latest Google's nonsense in this bug report about Chromes privacy issues related to connections to Google:

So once again: huge thanks to @Eloston for this great project.

[intika]

"respecting our users is at the core of what we do" is the latest Google's nonsense in this bug report about Chromes privacy issues related to connections to Google:

So once again: huge thanks to @Eloston for this great project.

Yes they do because if not no one would use the product, in the other hand we sometime forget that all of this is free... in the butom line we are the product... there is reason why google services are so good it's because they know so well theirs users lol hahaha

We are the exception/a-minority seeking for privacy not the majority and very very far from it

[Eloston]

@niftylettuce This is a month late, but ungoogled-chromium is a side project for me, and I intend to keep it that way for the forseeable future. Nevertheless, thank you for your show of appreciation!

[Utone]

I'm very happy I found this again! https://github.com/UnnoTed/Ungoogled-Chromium-Extension-Installer

Could this be added to: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-wiki/user-resources/Useful Extensions. I find it very handy to still be able to install extensions.

Thanks UnnoTed and of course @Eloston for making and this panacea of a browser! Hope you find some time 'from time to time' to maintain these great builds!
Thank you!

I wrote a extension to make it easier to install extensions from the webstore by following the url method stated in the faq, All that it does is get chrome's version and extension's id and insert it into the crx url, The #extension-mime-request-handling flag is still required.
https://github.com/UnnoTed/Ungoogled-Chromium-Extension-Installer