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All 6 items on Vale.Rocks categorised with the tag 'Chrome'. Content relating to the web browser developed by Google.

ActivityPub Bluesky

Growing increasingly frustrated as I attempt in vain to explain how one can modify the browser chrome of a browser that isn’t Chrome to look like chrome. That is, to change the chrome of a non-Chrome browser to look like chrome, without making it look like Chrome.

ActivityPub Bluesky

In the same vein as Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, I propose some renamings:

  • Safari Surfer
  • Chromium Cruiser
  • Firefox Forager
  • Edge Envoy
  • Vivaldi Voyager
ActivityPub Bluesky LinkedIn

Given the recent hubbub regarding Firefox, I know a lot of people are looking for another browser.

I want to take this opportunity to remind you that almost everything out there is based on Chromium and that this gives Google a dangerous power over our web. Google has a near-complete monopoly – don’t play into it.

https://vale.rocks/posts/everything-is-chrome

Further on this topic, I see a lot of people switching to Vivaldi, which, as well as being built on Chromium, isn’t fully open source.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

JPEG XL and Google's War Against It

The best format you can't use.

Starting with an overview of existing image formats, including JPEG, PNG, and GIF, a look into the very promising JPEG XL and why it hasn't seen the adoption it deserves as an innovative new file format in the web landscape.

https://vale.rocks/posts/jpeg-xl-and-googles-war-against-it