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> Warning: This website may not function properly on Safari. For the best experience, please use Google Chrome.

We've come full circle with the 90's and Internet Explorer. Well I guess this time the dominant browser is opensource so that's atleast something...

Can someone please create an animated GIF button for Chrome which says: "Best viewed with Google Chrome"?

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> Can someone please create an animated GIF button for Chrome which says: "Best viewed with Google Chrome"?

Here you go:

Edit: View the button: https://indiscipline.github.io/post/best-viewed-in-google-ch...

Surprised to see an actual gif pop up after adding that to a site. I guess thats just base64, still kind of amazing that its all inside a seemingly random string of text

By the way, you can simply paste the base64-encoded data (everything inside the quotes) into your address bar to view it. Probably not the safest action generally, but should be OK if it's an image.

Chrome isn't open source, chromium is. Best not to confuse the two.

Chrome and Chromium are virtually identical except for Google services, which aren't required to do anything with the browser except for installing Chrome extensions that can alternatively be sideloaded, so this is nitpicking.

It's essential nitpicking

Jumping in to defend parent comment, there’s nothing Open Source about Google Chrome and it’s highly relevant in this context because they are notorious for putting technologies and tracking in there that many people find objectionable.

Tangential, but I tried to build chromium the other day but stopped when it said it required access to Google cloud platform to actually build it. If something requires a proprietary build system, does it matter that it's open source?

That is not true. See every distribution packaging chromium.

In particular, this package[1] by openSUSE builds completely offline. Many other distributions require packages to build offline.

[1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/network:chromium/chr...

I think I got my wires crossed with ChromiumOS which when I last read the docs seemed to suggest that Google cloud platform was required. I now can't find those specific docs either so I retract my statement.

Don't forget media DRM built into Chrome but not Chromium.

Widevine is a Google service so I didn't forget it. You can still play media if you dislike DRM usually, at =< 720p that is, which is a lesser security standard. I'm not even sure whether it involves additional servers.

I found this article to explain it well:

https://www.lifewire.com/chromium-and-chrome-differences-417...

and there is a further ungoogled-chromium:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungoogled-chromium

Website works fine on safari too, I didn’t notice any issues

Same, I wonder what issue they thought they had...

Safari is known to be troublesome when a webpage contains many HTML audio players. It can get extremely slow and unresponsive.

Every researcher I know in the audio domain uses Chrome for exactly that reason. The alternative would be not to use the standard HTML audio tag which would be ridiculous.

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