• TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1052·
    11 months ago

    It is pretty ingenious (and evil) the way they made the Chromium logo look like the shitty off-brand diet version of Chrome.

    • verysoft@kbin.social
      581·
      11 months ago

      Completely ignoring Chrome’s success is off the back of it being advertised on the world’s most popular website since it’s release, then yeah.

          • Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.com
            9·
            11 months ago

            I can’t figure out what Opera’s deal is now, with that weird video enhancement thing. Lucid, or whatever it’s called.

            ABSOLUTELY NOBODY asked for in-browser video sharpening.

            How much development time and expertise does that kind of thing take, anyway? Whatever the fuck Lucid Video actually does, it must have taken thousands of person-hours to develop, of which many hundreds were contributed by people with Masters-degree levels of education and experience, in image processing.

            Why, in the name of all that is good and holy in this misbegotten, shit-crusted world would they spend all that effort on that shit, INSTEAD OF MAKING THEIR OWN BROWSER ENGINE AGAIN???

            That would HAVE to be easier, right? Maybe it would be pretty hard, given the commitment you’d have to make, in order to be absolutely sure you were making a product that didn’t have huge security holes. But I’m just saying, NOBODY wanted whatever this Lucid Video thing is. At least just save all the effort of doing that, by just…not doing it.

              • Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.com
                4·
                11 months ago

                Also, nobody:

                Also, Opera: Every couple of times that the browser auto-updates itself, it plays a splash screen with a weirdly ominous and loud noise. You’re welcome. We knew you’d love that.

                • renzev@lemmy.worldOP
                  2·
                  11 months ago

                  Its such a horrendously cheesy marketing gimmick, and people still somehow fall for it. Like sure, it has some actual features like ram limiter or whatever, but when is that every necessary? I keep around a hundred tabs open across two different browsers (yeah, I’m a weirdo like that) on my 12 year old thinkpad and it works fine, surely a GAMING computer running any other browser would be able to keep up without having to set artificial resource limits?

                  Also, did you know that Opera has an official vtuber? Because apparently that’s also what all the cool kids are into these days

            • ares35@kbin.social
              2·
              11 months ago

              opera isn’t opera anymore, it’s chinese-owned now (since 2016). if you want a browser by one of the original founders of the ‘old’ opera, look at vivaldi… although it, too, is chromium-based.

      • marcos@lemmy.world
        111·
        11 months ago

        And it being installed with unrelated software as crapware, and Google adopting Microsoft’s “Youtube isn’t done until Firefox doesn’t run”…

    • renzev@lemmy.worldOP
      162·
      11 months ago

      I wonder if chromium having the blue colors is what set the precedent for almost every other privacy-conscious browser to have a blue logo (Waterfox, GNU Icecat, palemoon, librewolf…)

      EDIT on second though probably not, blue just seems like a good color for internet-related applications. Safari, edge, and internet explorer are also blue!

      • solrize@lemmy.world
        10·
        11 months ago

        For years I’ve seen blue as a social media color and stayed away. A beautiful peaceful color ruined by Facebook and its ilk

          • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            11 months ago

            The color palette of fortune 100 companies seem to be, in order of frequency: Blue, Red, and White (not counting negative space).

            I think that there was some study that found that these colors are the most impactful or some shit.

            • renzev@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              11 months ago

              I remember hearing that in pokemon go, you could choose to join one of three teams or whatever (blue, yellow, and red). And the blue one was by far the most popular one, despite there being no difference besides color.

      • yggdar@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        As others already said, Chromium definitely isn’t the first or only one to use a blue logo. There is a theory that colours influence the way we perceive a brand, for example this article explains that idea.

        Blue is supposed to convey trustworthiness and maturity. A lot of companies like that, so you tend to see a lot of blue.

        You may also be experiencing the frequency illusion. If you specifically noticed the blue in Chromium’s logo, it would make sense that you suddenly started noticing the blue in other logos as well!

      • PoopingCough@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I feel like just more app icons in general are blue than any other color. Off the top of my head in addition to what you mentioned I have shazam, venmo, signal, steam, blink, reolink, dropbox, steam, paypal, discord, max, disney plus. And that’s not even counting one’s that are majority white but with blue as the only color. I think it’s just the most popular design choice or maybe there’s some sinister market research somewhere that shows people use/spend more on apps that have blue icons.

        • LinyosT@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          11 months ago

          I believe blue is a very “Everything is okay” colour. Which might explain why it’s so common if true.

    • XEAL@lemm.ee
      4·
      11 months ago

      And no API keys included on the Windows version of Chromium…

      • Aceticon@lemmy.world
        93·
        11 months ago

        Lynx gang!

        (Edit: love it that somebody gave me a downvote for mentioning the Lynx browser)

      • EvokerKing@lemmy.world
        350·
        11 months ago

        I’d rather use spyware than that piece of garbage. So many things are missing or broken. Ik it’s smaller and open source but that doesn’t mean it’s the best solution. I’m waiting for arc to come out on Windows.

        • hswolf@lemmy.world
          332·
          11 months ago

          FF is a perfectly good browser with as many features as any other.

          Even has pioneered some of them like the picture-in-picture that lets you overlay videos.

          Could you provide specifics on why you don’t like It? Or what’s “broken”?

          • EvokerKing@lemmy.world
            21·
            11 months ago

            There’s a lot of things but especially that of developer tools. They are horrible and I often run into many things going wrong when using it such as elements not showing at all and weird versions of errors showing in the console. It also has issues with site compatibility from a development standpoint. Many commonly used Web standards (as shown by mozillas own documentation) are just not present on Firefox. I remember there being complaints over Microsoft teams or YouTube not working on Firefox. People blamed Microsoft and Google, but it was actually mozillas fault for not adding standard web elements and JavaScript functions.

        • Skipcast@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          11 months ago

          What’s broken and missing exactly? Everything works fine for me except experimental features such as webgpu for example

          • not_again@lemmy.world
            23·
            11 months ago

            Named tab groups.

            Don’t get me wrong…I still use FF on Linux, but this is the one thing I miss…and the extension don’t seem to work as well as native groups…

    • vinhill@feddit.de
      1·
      11 months ago

      Actually, what is the reason that Firefox seems to be preferred over Chromium? Is it the license? The control Alphabet has over it?

      One has to agree that there is a lot more money poured into chromium, the code is more modern and easier embeddable, it is more feature-complete.

      Though, it’s good to have two independent browser engines and a non-profit (+for-profit subsidiary) dedicated to a free, open, user-focussed browser.

  • erranto@lemmy.world
    321·
    11 months ago

    I don’t blame the users here, remember from 2008 to 2012 where chrome ads where plastered on every website. Google knew what it was doing spreading its Trojan horse. I wouldn’t have known about the existence of chromium if I wasn’t lurking of privacy forums, blame google this time.

    • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      11 months ago

      Back then chrome was useful tho. Faster than any competition.

      Now, while it’s still fast, it’s so. Fekkin. Hungry.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
        71·
        11 months ago

        I want my browser to be hungry. I’d rather have it using the memory for sites than have the sites reload when I switch tabs. I want it to be fast on all things.

        This is not exclusive to Chrome. No matter what I use, I want it to be running from RAM and not have to swap or reload anything. Even things on my phone. I absolutely hate when I’m in the middle of multitasking on my phone and I go back to some information and the app has been unloaded and needs to load from scratch again (sometimes requiring a login to view the information I had previously retrieved).

        That being said, I load everything I own up with about as much RAM as I can, and I buy devices with more RAM than I think I’ll need. Generally when considering an upgrade to my current cellphone, I’m looking at the RAM of the new phone and considering if the increased amount justifies the work and cost involved with changing phones (if there’s an increase at all). Since RAM will be the most significant factor in whether or not something can keep up with me.

        My main PC has 64G, my laptop has 32G, and I believe right now, my current phone has 8G. It may be time to upgrade my phone…

      • renzev@lemmy.worldOP
        5·
        11 months ago

        It’s like a little trophy that we get the privilege of using as a reward for mastering GIMP’s admittedly beginner-hostile interface

  • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
    22·
    11 months ago

    when i was in high school chrome had lots of school restrictions but chromium didnt. life saver for me, guy who did nothing in high school

    • renzev@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      11 months ago

      Schools IT departments all over the world are doing society a massive favor by indirectly teaching children how to bypass censorship. 80% of what I know about IP and NAT came from finding different ways to bypass my school’s firewall haha

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    131·
    11 months ago

    Well they marketed it heavily and this is the result.

    Also no one is a loser for using a piece of software.

  • woodgen@lemm.ee
    11·
    11 months ago

    Good luck finding a Chromium build for non Linux based systems. Not that I would be affected by that.

      • renzev@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        11 months ago

        Are you currently using ungoogled chromium? How is it? Last time I took a look at it, it seemed sort of abandoned. Is it being maintained again?

        • EP51L0N@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          11 months ago

          last commit was 5 days ago, so I’d say it’s still up and running. I use it as an alternative for sites that don’t work great with firefox

          • renzev@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Good to know, thanks! I currently use the flatpak version of my preferred browser for extra security (the sandbox could in theory limit the damage done by zerodays, also in theory limits fingerprinting because things like custom fonts are not available inside the sandbox), but unfortunately that breaks previewing/debugging local html files that reference other local files (e.g. images), so I was looking for a nice and simple browser to install natively just for that purpose.

        • unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          The only thing stopping ungoogled chromium from really kicking off is an open source webstore alternative. Think Eclipse’s Open-VSX for community vscode builds.

    • renzev@lemmy.worldOP
      13·
      11 months ago

      Huh? Wasn’t this always how this template looked like? I found it by ducking (is that what we call it?) “elmo cocaine meme template”, meanwhile “coockie monster cocaine meme template” returns nothing relevant…

      EDIT: Are you making a joke about cookies that I am too dumb to understand?

      • fouloleron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I’ve never seen the meme before, my bad. I thought it was supposed to be cookie monster munching, not Elmo snorting!

        • renzev@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          11 months ago

          Oh haha no worries. I myself have never watched a ful episode of whatever show these characters are from (Sesame street? was that what it was called?) so I thought you were referencing some lore I didn’t know haha

      • Emerald@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        I think it’s because the chrome and chromium icons are circles, like cookies. You also put a “bite mark” in the chrome icon, as if bit off like a cookie.

  • maynarkh@feddit.nl
    2·
    11 months ago

    I love how the Chrome logo is literally a camera shutter looking at you, with Chromium the same but in camo. Really gets the message across.