I’d like to suggest removing Cromite from the Android browsers recommended page . While I like the idea of the project, it frequently is behind on updates ( recent discussion , been over a month since it got an update while Brave updated yesterday, which is a violation of the PG browser requirements),…

[image] Release v148 (beta) · uazo/cromite v148 beta release (wip) FWIW

Happy to see an update in progress, at any rate

@team Something has to happen now. You can’t keep recommending a browser with over a month’s worth of security fixes missing. I would assume a large part of the people who follow your recommendations are not aware of this, put trust into the recommendations that PG makes, and assume that only browse…

[image] any1: You can’t keep recommending a browser with over a month’s worth of security fixes missing. Sadly, this is par for the course. Ever since PG messed up the Skiff recommendation , they have been unapologetically slow about tool suggestions / site development. [image] Remove Proto…

This episode may be justification for a new requirement… something like: “Releases updates incorporating upstream security patches within X of their availability to developers” As to what X should be, I’m not too sure. We can agree that 30 days is a dangerous lag. But 30 minutes, probably an unr…

[image] privacy.slouchy: So where’s the line? When is security under threat? In my personal opinion, if you are consistently more than three days behind, you are a security risk and should be avoided.

update: Remove cromite (#3230) main ← any1here:main opened 03:41PM - 18 May 26 UTC (UTC) [image] any1here …

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