Real Ungoogled and Brave ported to OS below Windows 10, does someone work on it?

[NotHereToPlayGames]

The OLDEST version of Chrome I could find is v7 dated November 2010.

Its own About basically states it would not exist without Chromium.

[66cats]

1 hour ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

it would not exist without Chromium.

But at the same time, i keep seeing (from your second link) "When Google first introduced Chrome back in 2008, they also released the Chromium source code on which Chrome was based as an open-source project." In other words, Google released the Chrome binary and non-proprietary part of Chrome's code simultaneously. It's sorta chicken/egg debate, since "Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project, primarily developed and maintained by Google."

[NotHereToPlayGames]

I still see that as Chromium came first, then Chrome.

BOTH are owned/maintained by Google.

One "department" (Chromium) hands over their "engineering" to another "department" (Chrome).

That "department" (Chrome) adds their "content" and then it is released to the public (as Chrome).

Chromium may have been a "Google INTERNAL" but it existed FIRST.

We would not have Chrome (created by Google) if Chromium (created by Google) did not exist FIRST.

[roytam1]

3 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

The OLDEST version of Chrome I could find is v7 dated November 2010.

Its own About basically states it would not exist without Chromium.

I got a 2.0 here:

[UCyborg]

I feel really old looking at these screenshots.

[Mathwiz]

17 hours ago, UCyborg said:

Does average MSFNer even know a wide enough spectrum of software to be able to make proper judgement?

Probably not. I'm pretty sure there are applications where AVX instructions can offer considerable performance improvement.

It's just that those applications aren't browsers and email clients. Well, at least, not yet. I'm sure Google is working on new CSS transitions or something that will be dog-slow without AVX. One can never waste use enough CPU/GPU cycles on flashy graphics!

[Mathwiz]

Getting back on topic, I think all this confusion was due to using the word "real" in the thread title and first post:

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Real Ungoogled and Brave ported to OS below Windows 10, does someone work on it?

On 5/22/2024 at 10:33 PM, Karla Sleutel said:

Please post if you aware of such projects, just to clarify, only real versions of these browsers are of interest.

I'm more familiar with Ungoogled Chromium than Brave, but in either case, I read "real" as meaning "developed by the same authors." So "real" Ungoogled Chromium would have to be developed by the Ungoogled Chromium team. @win32 could develop Ungoogled Supermium, but it wouldn't be "real" Ungoogled Chromium.

If that's what the OP means, then the answer is most likely no. AIUI, the last version of Ungoogled Chromium compatible with Win 7/8/8.1 was version 109 (same as the "Googled" version). The Ungoogled Chromium team has shown no interest in backporting newer versions to older OSes. "Ungoogling" Chromium is hard enough work!

[Karla Sleutel]

On 5/26/2024 at 3:42 PM, Mathwiz said:

"Ungoogling" Chromium is hard enough work!

No. Just apply the patches. Courtesy of @NotHereToPlayGames

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/patches/series

[Karla Sleutel]

On 5/26/2024 at 3:42 PM, Mathwiz said:

Getting back on topic, I think all this confusion was due to using the word "real" in the thread title and first post

Thanks for getting back on topic. What's there you don't understand? There's real and there's fake. Like fake Supermium, for example.

[Karla Sleutel]

On 5/26/2024 at 3:42 PM, Mathwiz said:

I'm more familiar with Ungoogled Chromium than Brave

I've changed my mind about Brave, all due to the latest developments on their forum.

[Karla Sleutel]

On 5/26/2024 at 3:11 AM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

I still see that as Chromium came first, then Chrome.

Yes, right, that's exactly like my grandpa told me.