I'm honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux. Turns out many people actually use Linux for the user experience and flexibility, and not for privacy.
Iām honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux.
I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.
So for now I've swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium's RAM usage stays sane.
I had to look that up, it's the DRM system you need for most streaming services, like e.g. Netflix.
Wikipedia page says though, that it is also integrated in Firefox?
Yes, but it is a binary blob that Google makes and Firefox just integrates with. If it is not released for a specific platform, Firefox can't do anything about it. At least a while a go it was quite an adventure to try and get DRM working on ARM64 Linux: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/netflix-on-asahi.html
27 Comments
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 54 pts · 167d
"Google Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux"...
... said no one ever
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 166d
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 40 pts · 167d
Oh hell yeah! I've been dying to install a browser that doesn't support uBlock Origin.
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 167d
So what? Most people are using Linux for the privacy benefits. Does privacy sound like a good reason to use Chrome?
artyom@piefed.social · 8 pts · 167d
I'm honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux. Turns out many people actually use Linux for the user experience and flexibility, and not for privacy.
fratermus@piefed.social · 3 pts · 167d
I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.
So for now I've swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium's RAM usage stays sane.
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 167d
Really? I'll admit to being shocked as well.
evol@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 167d
I use Linux for work and our company requires chrome to view Google Docs and such
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 166d
evol@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 165d
It does but theirs a certain auth plugin/security setting they enable that only works with chrome
vermaterc@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 167d
citation needed
Leny@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 167d
"Linux users shall not be using Chrome" Sir Isaac Newton.
IratePirate@feddit.org · 5 pts · 167d
"Thou shalt not use the Chrome, unless thou wantst be hung from yonder tree by thine ballsack!"
Leviticus 13:37
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 167d
Ok. Wait 1 week, if I haven't provided the citation .... wait another week. š
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 167d
Chrome is dead
Cekan14@lemmy.org · 14 pts · 167d
This is all sorts of wrong
vermaterc@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 167d
What is wrong? Publishing on ARM? I don't understand why this post received so many downvotes
extremeboredom@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 167d
Because Google sucks.
redrumBot@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 167d
And because chrome is not FOSS.
non_burglar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 167d
True, but not all Linux is FOSS, even though there is some significant overlap.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 167d
Maybe not, but even then, you are usually not the product.
non_burglar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 166d
That's a fair statement.
Your username is amazing .
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
Ahh, thank you! :D
unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 167d
This is good even if you don't care about Chrome, because it means Widevine should become properly supported on the platform.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 167d
I had to look that up, it's the DRM system you need for most streaming services, like e.g. Netflix.
Wikipedia page says though, that it is also integrated in Firefox?
unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 166d
Yes, but it is a binary blob that Google makes and Firefox just integrates with. If it is not released for a specific platform, Firefox can't do anything about it. At least a while a go it was quite an adventure to try and get DRM working on ARM64 Linux: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/netflix-on-asahi.html
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 166d
l understand, then it makes sense !
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 167d
Duck that
sinextitan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 166d
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish...