xenopeek wrote:As for trusting Chromium, well you're shooting yourself in the foot aren't you? You have a completely open source web browser that has eyes on the code from multiple companies contributing to it and you're using a proprietary plugin from Chrome with it... If you really care about such things, you wouldn't be using Flash.
Well i found this site that gave me a better understanding on the differences between Chromium and Chrome:
http://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what%E2 ... d=noscript
Has a few errors in it, but i did not know that Chromium is the base open source software, then Chrome is built by Google on that base. So that sort of answers my question. As Chrome is being built by Google (for profit) based on Chromium open source (not-for-profit), the chances of improvements in flash security flowing 'downhill' (back to Chromium) is less. So that might be one of the reasons for Chromium lagging behind Chrome in the flash security zone.
And i agree with you on Flash being less than ideal in terms of web security. Trouble is much of the internet is built on it, and for example when i use Pale Moon (more secure version of firefox) that has no Flash, quite a large portion of the internet becomes unusable, HTML5 still has a way to go.
So Chromium is strictly my 'youtube' browser, that is all i use it for. I switch of as many tracking/report back to google services as possible and while it sadly does not have an excellent plugin like NoScript for Firefox, i do use a couple of plugins such as Ghostery in Chromium to better plug information leaks etc. All my 'important' internet traffic goes through Palemoon (with a range of security plugins).
I know you can run a type of sandbox in linux, but it is a real shame it is not as easy as 'sandboxie' on the windows platform (although that seems to have recently shifted to a paid version, so not sure how long that will reamin the best 'free' option on windows).
I suppose in the same way Ubuntu shifed away from being the early 'best' ease of use Linux OS, as it sort of became more 'corporate' and business orientated (Fiesty Fawn was the last version i tired, and modern Ubuntu, a little like the changes Windows 8 made, is not really my type of OS), the same has been happening to Firefox for a little while now, so that was behind my shift to Palemoon to deal with those concerns.
Chrome i've never been a fan off simply because it is Google, and i didn't quite fall in love with the data gathering and metrics that Google is all about, so it has been interesting to try Chromium on the Mint platform and try to learn more about it. What would be perfect is if HTML5 completely takes over the role of Flash on the internet and that becomes the base of Chromium over flash, but i suspect that is quite a way in the future?
