Replacements for Firefox and Thunderbird?

[David Lang]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2021, Cody Smith wrote:

> Chrome, Brave and all the rest of the Blink-based browsers are based on
> Chromium, Chromium is the open source browser that Google takes, adds their
> proprietary bits and releases as Chrome

IS that the order? or is it that Google develops Chrome and Chromium is Chrome 
with the proprietary bits removed?

How much non-Google developer effort goes in to Chromium?

David Lang

> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 8:45 PM David Lang <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>
>> Chromium and Brave are based on Google Chrome
>>
>> I use alpine for my mail 99% of the time (there are a few emails that
>> really do
>> need html support to find the links in them)
>>
>> David Lang
>>
>> On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, ircsurfer wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:04:38 +0000
>>> From: ircsurfer <ircsurfer at protonmail.com>
>>> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>> Cc: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>> Subject: Re: Replacements for Firefox and Thunderbird?
>>>
>>> what about Chromium for a browser?
>>>
>>> Sent from ProtonMail mobile
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> On Jan 13, 2021, 13:06, Bob wrote:
>>>
>>>> oh and a browser that is basic and has no tracking but no eye candy
>> either
>>>> is lynx also a standard kubuntu download.
>>>> all text based and command line if that is ok, no GUI's
>>>> unfortunately some sites that use java will not display correctly
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2021, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Now, since Mozilla has jumped on the thought police bandwagon to join
>> Google, Twitter, Amazon and Facebook, I'm looking for alternative browsers
>> and an e-mail clients to run on my (K)Ubuntu workstation. Kmail and
>> Evolution both both want to pull in a lot of dependencies, and I will not
>> touch Gmail (or anything Google) in any way, manner, shape or form. Can
>> anyone recommend a lean e-mail client and a browser that does not 'phone
>> home'?
>>>>> --
>>>>> sent from my 100% Microsoft-free workstation.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> kubuntu-users mailing list
>>>>> kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>>>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> kubuntu-users mailing list
>>>> kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users
>>
>> --
>> kubuntu-users mailing list
>> kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
-- 
kubuntu-users mailing list
kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users