As noted here [image] LibreWolf (Firefox-Based Browser) hammer_and_wrenchTool Suggestions So I have read everything again and I have more thoughts, but right out of the gate, one of our minimum requirements is: Must be available on Linux, macOS, and Windows.…

I was also advocating for such a change here: [image] Trivalent (secureblue Web Browser) hammer_and_wrenchTool Suggestions Website Short description A security-focused, Chromium-based browser for desktop Linux inspired by Vanadium. Intended for use in secur…

Yeah this seems a little inconsistent when there’s a few recommendation categories that don’t enforce this (e.g. Proton Drive lacking a Linux app and a bunch of the password managers being exclusive to Apple or Android)

[image] Trivalent (secureblue Web Browser) It seems to me the criteria is just forcing PG to skip over strong platform specific recommendations, even for platforms it already recommends (ie it makes sense to have secureblue specific reccomendations, if you reccomend secureblue). I found this c…

I’m somewhat of an undecided voter since I haven’t had a ton of time think about it, but dropping the cross platform requirement feels like the right move. We’re potentially ignoring some of the best tools built specifically for a single OS. After all we already take an OS specific approach for mobi…

Makes sense. I’d put it in the nice-to-have bucket, but not a add requirement.

I think this proposal is particularly dangerous when a software provides availability on multiple platforms, but we don’t want to recommend it on multiple platforms. LibreWolf would be a good example of this actually, where even if there were some platforms we’d want to recommend it on, they certain…

I think the exception should be where there is tight integration to the underlying system. In the case of Trivalent, that is largely confined by SELinux, so not just Linux itself but Linux distributions which have SELinux policies. This does happen with some phone related applications which use sec…

[image] jonah: I think this proposal is particularly dangerous when a software provides availability on multiple platforms, but we don’t want to recommend it on multiple platforms. LibreWolf would be a good example of this actually, where even if there were some platforms we’d want to recommend …

No. Keep requirements. Their excuse is not sufficient for me. They need to grow up if they’re serious about providing a privacy browser for everybody.

[image] jonah: I think this proposal is particularly dangerous when a software provides availability on multiple platforms, but we don’t want to recommend it on multiple platforms. This makes sense and was not something I considered but I do think there is some sort of middle ground where obv…

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