Why I Use Chrome On CentOS

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I use chrome on CentOS because I wrote a web socket web app and I can only get chrome to work properly with web sockets.

I have a local web app created with erlang. It works like ms sccm to wake, freeze/thaw deepfreeze PCs and can update windows/mac/linux boxes when they need updates for some student computers labs and department/college class rooms.

Thanks for your understanding for my need for chrome – I moved over from xubuntu several months ago and I’d like to stay on CentOS.

Thanks,

-wes

6 thoughts on - Why I Use Chrome On CentOS

  • …are you asking a question here and it’s just eluding me?
    if you are indeed asking how to get chrome for your CentOS instance, you’ll likely need to state which version (5/6/7) and what you’ve done so far to try to make that happen.


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  • Making a statement after a previous set of questions about chrome issues….

    I think some folks don’t like chrome on this list, so I was saying why I use chrome.

    -wes

  • I don’t like Chrome but I can understand your need to use it.

    Chrome causes confusion with EV certs – I can tell family members etc. that when going to their bank site or paypal or wherever – to make sure they see green in top left corner, but Chrome specifically chose not to implement EV certs the same way causing confusion and yes – I hate Google for that amongst other things.

    It is especially bad on mobile where there is no visual difference between an EV cert in FireFox and a “normal” cert in Chrome.

    I hope Google crashes and burns, they are bad for the Internet.

    But that’s my opinion, others are entitled to their own.

  • Am 02.09.2015 um 21:40 schrieb Wes James :

    self fulfilling prophecy – what would happen, when you had assume that there where people that like such kind of browser? :-)

    there exist a chromium package from upstream for EL6 – subscription needed. Googles package should work with EL7 (untested) … EL5 is mostly EOL.

  • Chrome, and Chromium, too, spies on users’ web habits behind their back. In comparison with firefox, firefox pretty much allows you to switch off any unwanted features through preferences/about:config, and a traffic dump taken when browsing a known web site comes back clean.

    Chrome OTOH, even if you turn all the knobs, still creates https traffic to Google servers, and you cannot tell what it is transmitting.

  • isdtor wrote:

    A bit OT, but chrome is the only way to use chromecast under Fedora or Windows, as far as I know.