Default Browser Follow-up

[Benjamin Kerensa]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On 14 June 2013 15:06, Jason Warner <jason.warner at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On Quality: Chromium just as of last year was totally unmaintained Ubuntu
> >> (http://askubuntu.com/questions/166931/why-is-chromium-not-updated-automatically-as-firefox-is)
> >> this does
> >> not seem like quality or stability in my opinion.
> >
> > Indeed, there was a time between the community maintainer of Chromium
> > leaving and us finding another maintainer that it went relatively
> > unmaintained (we still did a best effort to keep it updated, though it
> > wasn't any one person's focus). Now we have Chad Miller maintaining Chromium
> > fulltime.
>
> I'm not sure that Benjamin's point was answered here. The current
> version of Chrome/Chromium on Linux is 28 released 6 days ago, 27 was
> released a full month ago, 26 was released nearly 3 months ago, but
> the version available for Ubuntu is still at version 25. It's widely
> known that new Chrome/Chromium release are also security updates.
>
> Also, what's currently blocking re-establishing Chromium daily or beta
> PPAs which should help identify issues sooner (such as the webapps
> feature not working with Chromium 26)?
>
> I know we're all thinking about the next Ubuntu LTS but it seems clear
> to me that Chromium still does not have a track record yet of being
> maintained well enough to replace Firefox as the default desktop
> browser yet (except perhaps on arm).
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy



Yeah right now I see 25.0.1364.160 shipping in raring and we don't
even have a saucy branch open yet which is not great.

Looking at Chromium's Security Blog I can see copious amounts of security fixes
that have landed in Chromium upstream that have not made it down to
Ubuntu. While Firefox right now is in a rather better position in
terms of being a secure/stable browser.



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