Chrome is dead

"Google Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux"...

... said no one ever

This is good even if you don't care about Chrome, because it means Widevine should become properly supported on the platform.

So what? Most people are using Linux for the privacy benefits. Does privacy sound like a good reason to use Chrome?

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?

Duck that

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.

This is all sorts of wrong

Really? I'll admit to being shocked as well.

What is wrong? Publishing on ARM? I don't understand why this post received so many downvotes

Because Google sucks.

Most people are using Linux for the privacy benefits

citation needed

"Linux users shall not be using Chrome" Sir Isaac Newton.

And because chrome is not FOSS.

True, but not all Linux is FOSS, even though there is some significant overlap.

I’m 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.

Oh hell yeah! I've been dying to install a browser that doesn't support uBlock Origin.

"Thou shalt not use the Chrome, unless thou wantst be hung from yonder tree by thine ballsack!"

Leviticus 13:37

Ok. Wait 1 week, if I haven't provided the citation .... wait another week. 😍

I use Linux for work and our company requires chrome to view Google Docs and such

Maybe not, but even then, you are usually not the product.

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

That's a fair statement.

Your username is amazing .

l understand, then it makes sense !

Ahh, thank you! :D

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish...

It does but theirs a certain auth plugin/security setting they enable that only works with chrome