On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 08:44:31PM +0100, Stefan Ott wrote:
> On 03/06/2015 08:06 PM, T.J. Duchene wrote:
> >
> > That said, the reason I suggested Chromium as an alternative to
> > Firefox is that essentially a better piece of software. It has
> > better features, better support for Web standards, and it is more
> > actively maintained.
<snip>
> And then there is the thing where Debian had to EOL chromium early
> because there is no security support and the latest version cannot be
> built on Debian stable anymore [1], recommending their users "to
> switch to the iceweasel web browser".
>
> Personally I think the last point alone makes Firefox the better
> choice for a default browser -- we wouldn't want our users to suddenly
> find themselves without security updates...
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2015/msg00031.html

I think ^THIS is probably the biggest reason not to use Chromium.

Never mind whether it's affiliated with Google or whether that makes
it untrustworthy.
If you can't keep it updated for the full lifetime of the release,
it could be written by the most trustworthy vendor on Earth and it
still wouldn't qualify for a good default.

Thanks,
Isaac Dunham