I get that Cromite is a one person project and the uazo generally does a good job, but in last couple of months Cromite is usually weeks behind Chrome stable. Would it make sense to add a small note on the recommendation page about this? just a heads up that updates may occasionally lag behind.
If that’s the case PG should consider removing it as a recommendation as it would not meet the minimum requirement to receive engine updates from upstream releases quickly.
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The browser section for both desktop and android do not follow the set requirements
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Not sure how you want me to respond to that but I will say I am consistent on this issue. All offending reccomendations should be removed in all catagories.
Just wanted to add more context that both desktop and android are not following the requirements. Wasn’t meant to undermine what you wrote.
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Yeah that makes sense. The enforcement of criteria on this site can be extremely frustrating at times.
I consider Cromite the weakest PG browser recommendation, and still personally rank it lower than a few other browsers that havent earned a PG listing.
Cromite has other issues as well. They added some questionable security/privacy blobs, Eyeo filtering engine comes to mind
In light of this additional update-lag issue (on which I am taking OP at their word, have not verified on my own), I wouldnt be disappointed to see it altogether removed
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Yeah, looking at the release cycle again, things seem to have slowed down around the start of March. No updates at all during Chrome v146, and the next release jumped straight to v147 (early April). We’re now almost a month past that, and Chrome has shipped v148. Honestly, at this point Cromite should probably just be removed from the recommendations.
If the dev is unable to keep up, we should be considering delisting it. I will probably sent the dev a quick message for comment and see if there are expected improvements on the horizon. This situation does show again how we cannot just add any browser, even if have had a good update schedule for a few months.
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No, not for the moment.
I’m just VERY busy with work (and little desire to use the computer at night), but I’m making progress with the port to 148.
Please bear with me for a moment, I think it will stay that way until late September (the deadline for the big project).Oh, and please use the discussions for these matters.
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