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Clarity about chrome

Open 3n-mb opened this issue 7 years ago • 6 comments

It sounds like brave is using chromium. Electron is using chromium. Am I missing some difference between the two uses? Licensing?

3n-mb avatar Apr 10 '17 01:04 3n-mb

From main page of this repo:

Signal Desktop built on top of Muon so you can run it without Google Chrome.

What's the deal?

3n-mb avatar Apr 10 '17 01:04 3n-mb

@3n-mb I'm not sure I follow the question. Are you asking why the README says "you can run it without Google Chrome" when, in fact, Chromium underpins the project?

leppert avatar Apr 10 '17 01:04 leppert

Am I missing some difference between the two uses? Licensing?

see https://github.com/brave/muon/blob/master/README.md.

in addition, muon incorporates more chromium code, including the extensions system.

muon is also staying much closer to the chromium release schedule, which allows us to ship security updates faster.

diracdeltas avatar Apr 10 '17 02:04 diracdeltas

@leppert yes, since electron also claims to be based on chromium.

3n-mb avatar Apr 10 '17 07:04 3n-mb

Honestly, haven't heard about muon before yesterday.

Nonetheless, I added comments on issue #45 . Is it a case of incorrect docs in muon, that doesn't show strong default story, or is there an incorrect assumption about defaults here?

3n-mb avatar Apr 10 '17 07:04 3n-mb

Has anyone tried to put signal code into electron? It looks that signal is a chrome app, more of an extension, unlike, say, current Cryptocat. Since muon says to be extension-friendlier, signal on muon sounds to be a logical development. Disclamer: I have no direct experience with extensions, so, these are vague guesses.

3n-mb avatar Apr 10 '17 08:04 3n-mb