I tweaked chromium’s design a bit #sonicthehedgehog
January 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I tweaked chromium’s design a bit #sonicthehedgehog
how is it not standards compliant? from my experience Firefox tends to have standards ready earlier than Chrome does
or do you mean how Firefox is obviously incapable of keeping up with Chromium's dozens of non-web standard compliant features? because that's a given
or do you mean how Firefox is obviously incapable of keeping up with Chromium's dozens of non-web standard compliant features? because that's a given
December 24, 2024 at 12:58 AM
how is it not standards compliant? from my experience Firefox tends to have standards ready earlier than Chrome does
or do you mean how Firefox is obviously incapable of keeping up with Chromium's dozens of non-web standard compliant features? because that's a given
or do you mean how Firefox is obviously incapable of keeping up with Chromium's dozens of non-web standard compliant features? because that's a given
Why is Chromium's scrollbar so goddamn ugly 😭😭
February 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Why is Chromium's scrollbar so goddamn ugly 😭😭
I'd argue that for the most part, TypeScript's policy of mandating 2+ browser engines is actually a net positive for the web as a whole
Anything that goes against Chromium's habit of forcing the hand on the whole ecosystem by shipping APIs without consulting standards bodies first is good
Anything that goes against Chromium's habit of forcing the hand on the whole ecosystem by shipping APIs without consulting standards bodies first is good
September 15, 2026 at 8:32 AM
I'd argue that for the most part, TypeScript's policy of mandating 2+ browser engines is actually a net positive for the web as a whole
Anything that goes against Chromium's habit of forcing the hand on the whole ecosystem by shipping APIs without consulting standards bodies first is good
Anything that goes against Chromium's habit of forcing the hand on the whole ecosystem by shipping APIs without consulting standards bodies first is good
sometimes i think about how the jpeg xl thread on chromium's bugtracker has outlasted cohost. i havent gotten an email from it in a while tho
June 3, 2026 at 10:38 PM
sometimes i think about how the jpeg xl thread on chromium's bugtracker has outlasted cohost. i havent gotten an email from it in a while tho
Lit HTML v3 is delightfully simple. I'm starting to like it a lot for chromium's webui.
December 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Lit HTML v3 is delightfully simple. I'm starting to like it a lot for chromium's webui.
I wrote a blog about my internship at @igalia.com working on Chromium's Linux Wayland (the engine behind Google Chrome, Brave, Edge, and ChatGPT Atlas), and how I became an official Committer in the project: abdalrahmangad.github.io/posts/browse...
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I wrote a blog about my internship at @igalia.com working on Chromium's Linux Wayland (the engine behind Google Chrome, Brave, Edge, and ChatGPT Atlas), and how I became an official Committer in the project: abdalrahmangad.github.io/posts/browse...
What I'm really interested in is how much of chromium's market share is edge
October 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What I'm really interested in is how much of chromium's market share is edge
Featuring Does This Come in Chromium's first retcon!
September 5, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Featuring Does This Come in Chromium's first retcon!
firefox (and less so safari) are the only things keeping the web standards based and not at the whims of chromium's dev team
please use firefox
please
please use firefox
please
April 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
firefox (and less so safari) are the only things keeping the web standards based and not at the whims of chromium's dev team
please use firefox
please
please use firefox
please
Our decision was to avoid removing this since it could make things worse, especially if Vanadium is used outside GrapheneOS on a small set of devices. The intention of Chromium's approach is stopping hardware fingerprinting but it causes a persistent random fingerprint instead.
December 18, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Our decision was to avoid removing this since it could make things worse, especially if Vanadium is used outside GrapheneOS on a small set of devices. The intention of Chromium's approach is stopping hardware fingerprinting but it causes a persistent random fingerprint instead.
The Browser Push is a big part of the next wave of AI horseshit.
Gotta reject it at every turn.
Makes Gecko-based browsers like Firefox/Zen all the more important as we maintain alternatives to Chromium's monopoly.
Gotta reject it at every turn.
Makes Gecko-based browsers like Firefox/Zen all the more important as we maintain alternatives to Chromium's monopoly.
Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion
Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion
The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.
buff.ly
August 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Browser Push is a big part of the next wave of AI horseshit.
Gotta reject it at every turn.
Makes Gecko-based browsers like Firefox/Zen all the more important as we maintain alternatives to Chromium's monopoly.
Gotta reject it at every turn.
Makes Gecko-based browsers like Firefox/Zen all the more important as we maintain alternatives to Chromium's monopoly.
I will second the Vivaldi recommendation if you can't ge along with Firefox.
A notable portion of the Vivaldi team is OG Opera browser folks from before it became another Chromium reskin and killed everything that made Old Opera good. Vivaldi is what Opera with Chromium's engine should have been.
A notable portion of the Vivaldi team is OG Opera browser folks from before it became another Chromium reskin and killed everything that made Old Opera good. Vivaldi is what Opera with Chromium's engine should have been.
October 1, 2026 at 12:46 PM
I will second the Vivaldi recommendation if you can't ge along with Firefox.
A notable portion of the Vivaldi team is OG Opera browser folks from before it became another Chromium reskin and killed everything that made Old Opera good. Vivaldi is what Opera with Chromium's engine should have been.
A notable portion of the Vivaldi team is OG Opera browser folks from before it became another Chromium reskin and killed everything that made Old Opera good. Vivaldi is what Opera with Chromium's engine should have been.
"decentralized applications" named as use-case and not immediately rejected, in this WIP change to Chromium's WebTransport throttling algo.
chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/s...
(if you are thinking "wow he gets so excited about tiny comments", yes the bar is that low at this point.)
chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/s...
(if you are thinking "wow he gets so excited about tiny comments", yes the bar is that low at this point.)
April 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"decentralized applications" named as use-case and not immediately rejected, in this WIP change to Chromium's WebTransport throttling algo.
chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/s...
(if you are thinking "wow he gets so excited about tiny comments", yes the bar is that low at this point.)
chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/s...
(if you are thinking "wow he gets so excited about tiny comments", yes the bar is that low at this point.)
It's worth noting that Chromium's build system handles this perfectly. New compiler? All the .cpp files rebuild, including the .pch files. Perfect dependency tracking. It's possible.
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
It's worth noting that Chromium's build system handles this perfectly. New compiler? All the .cpp files rebuild, including the .pch files. Perfect dependency tracking. It's possible.
Chrome's"V8 Optimizer" toggle started out as a JIT toggle. However, Chromium's WebAssembly support currently requires JIT and they quickly crippled the setting in an emergency update. It now only disables the highest 2 tiers of the JIT, so a lot of the security value is missing.
May 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Chrome's"V8 Optimizer" toggle started out as a JIT toggle. However, Chromium's WebAssembly support currently requires JIT and they quickly crippled the setting in an emergency update. It now only disables the highest 2 tiers of the JIT, so a lot of the security value is missing.
Chromium's V8 Optimizer toggle for disabling JavaScript JIT compilation was changed to only disable the 2 higher tiers of JIT compilation while still leaving the baseline JIT compiler enabled. This also caused the device management policy for JIT predating this to change meaning.
June 30, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Chromium's V8 Optimizer toggle for disabling JavaScript JIT compilation was changed to only disable the 2 higher tiers of JIT compilation while still leaving the baseline JIT compiler enabled. This also caused the device management policy for JIT predating this to change meaning.
This is effectively what we put in Chromium's AI coding policy. "Authors must self-review and understand all code and documentation updates [...] before sending them for review". And we had to add some consequences after a wave of slop.
chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src...
chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src...
chromium.googlesource.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is effectively what we put in Chromium's AI coding policy. "Authors must self-review and understand all code and documentation updates [...] before sending them for review". And we had to add some consequences after a wave of slop.
chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src...
chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src...
Don't underestimate Does This Come in Chromium's reach, @mattbegins.bsky.social ; Ray Palmer just weighed in on the conversation about Mike Grell's Green Arrow legacy.
April 7, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Don't underestimate Does This Come in Chromium's reach, @mattbegins.bsky.social ; Ray Palmer just weighed in on the conversation about Mike Grell's Green Arrow legacy.
#Medsky🧪 #publichealth Little evidence for #chromium’s benefits . Notably, much of this #chromium is leached from stainless steel cookware & food processing equipment, rather than coming from our food.
Chromium made it into multivitamins, not because science proved it’s essential, but because nutritionists in the 1950s suspected it was important.
As science has evolved, it looks like we get what we need from stainless steel cookware, not food.
No real harm, no real benefit 🩺
As science has evolved, it looks like we get what we need from stainless steel cookware, not food.
No real harm, no real benefit 🩺
Why chromium is considered an essential nutrient, despite having no proven health benefits
Dietary supplement companies tout chromium as a way to boost energy, weight loss and blood sugar control. But the studies behind these claims are either flawed or inconclusive.
buff.ly
September 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
#Medsky🧪 #publichealth Little evidence for #chromium’s benefits . Notably, much of this #chromium is leached from stainless steel cookware & food processing equipment, rather than coming from our food.
@vaporeon.baby No seriously :neofox_what: Ublock origin is like 90% of the reason I use Firefox on Android, especially with Chromium's Manifest V3 shenanigans.
July 8, 2024 at 5:09 PM
@vaporeon.baby No seriously :neofox_what: Ublock origin is like 90% of the reason I use Firefox on Android, especially with Chromium's Manifest V3 shenanigans.