The world of Chromium
The world of Chromium
Posted Mar 17, 2011 1:59 UTC (Thu) by leiz (guest, #46265)Parent article: The world of Chromium
a few comments:
- The green flashing and thread_restrictions.cc crash are both due to the fact that you did a Debug build.
- With Google Chrome, we provide stable/beta/dev channel packages, so users can choose what they are comfortable with, much like you would with Debian stable/beta/dev. If the Fedora Chromium package provider takes the time to package multiple channels, then Fedora users can try Chrome 10, 11, or 12 right now.
- There are lots of Chromium developer who care about Linux, but fonts are a tricky issue. Have you looked at http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/fonts/ ?
- Development happens on chromium-dev, not chromium-discuss.
Posted Mar 17, 2011 2:00 UTC (Thu)
by leiz (guest, #46265)
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then Fedora users can try *Chromium* 10, 11, or 12 right now.
Posted Mar 17, 2011 2:13 UTC (Thu)
by jake (editor, #205)
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hmm, so when you follow the "Getting Involved" link to the "developer discussion links" link, you end up here:
http://www.chromium.org/developers/discussion-groups
which doesn't seem to say anything about chromium-dev -- the only group that it mentions that seems at all appropriate is chromium-discuss ...
jake
Posted Mar 17, 2011 2:19 UTC (Thu)
by jake (editor, #205)
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I do see, now, that the Developers page: http://www.chromium.org/developers does have a link for Technical Discussion Groups: http://www.chromium.org/developers/technical-discussion-g... which lists chromium-dev -- I probably should have seen that ... I got distracted by the "developer discussion" link in the earlier page.
thanks for the pointer ...
jake
Posted Mar 17, 2011 5:00 UTC (Thu)
by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
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Basically, I only use firefox now and then because of the zotero extension.
The fonts look just the same as on firefox. I don't know what the difference is from chromium.
Posted Mar 17, 2011 8:15 UTC (Thu)
by Lennie (subscriber, #49641)
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My Firefox is more stable than Chrome. Everytime I use Chrome I can have tabs hang which block the whole interface and can't close the tabs.
Eventhough this is exactly what I see people complain about in Firefox and is supposedly fixed in Chrome.
And I even use daily builds of Firefox and have lots of extensions installed (although some are disabled because of incompatibilities with the daily builds).
I'm also on Ubuntu.
Posted Mar 17, 2011 16:40 UTC (Thu)
by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
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I didn't even think that was possible, since each tab uses its own process.
Occasionally I've had to kill a tab's process, but the interface was fine.
Posted Mar 18, 2011 15:55 UTC (Fri)
by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
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Posted Mar 21, 2011 8:22 UTC (Mon)
by ncm (guest, #165)
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Speaking of regressions, has anybody else noticed that Google Maps works quite a bit less well than it used to?
Posted Mar 21, 2011 17:41 UTC (Mon)
by fuhchee (guest, #40059)
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Yes, I thought it was my imagination.
Posted Mar 17, 2011 13:18 UTC (Thu)
by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
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Posted Mar 17, 2011 13:47 UTC (Thu)
by Frej (guest, #4165)
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I'm not sure it's correct that _both_ fontconfig and Xsetting hinting values are required to match. Secondly the values have no semantic meaning in fontconfig, and are tied to libfreetype.
I've always wondered why you could set hinting value there, because it has nothing to with finding and loading fonts.
Maybe non X installations? But you still need to pass the value from fontconfig to whatver libfreetype call. Anyways now it's out 'there', we have all kinds of people expecting it to have a meaning.
Further fontconfig is hardly the old way of doing things. It's the newest part of font handling on lunix :).
Ofcourse i've never read any of the code, so I might be wrong as well.
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_Hinting values have no meaning at all inside fontconfig_. It's just a property value.