Google Integrates Cast Into Chrome, No Extension Required (venturebeat.com) 43
An anonymous reader writes from a report via VentureBeat: On Monday, Google announced Google Cast is now built right into Chrome, allowing anyone using the company's browser to cast content to supported devices without having to install or configure anything. The Google Cast extension for Chrome, which launched in July 2013, is no longer required for casting. The report adds: "Here's how it works. When you browse websites that are integrated with Cast, Chrome will now show you a Cast icon as long as you're on the same network as a Cast device. With a couple of clicks, you can view the website content on your TV, listen to music on your speakers, and so on. In fact, Google today also integrated Hangouts with Google Cast: Signed-in users on Chrome 52 or higher can now use the 'Cast...' menu item from Chrome to share the contents of a browser tab or their entire desktop into a Hangout." The support document details all the ways you you can use Google Cast with Chrome.
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Fine, go ahead and use Lynx all you want. Everything else is spying on you (including /.)
Why Does My Browser Need to be a Server? (Score:3)
(And "What does God need with a starship?")
Brave is trying to make a profitable business with certain things relating to security, but who in their right mind thinks that this is somehow an improvement upon or necessary for secure web browsing? 26,000 engineers? Grandma? Millennials? Who?
No one's thinking of security, or they'd have kiboshed this and a dozen other features, and put the enablement or access of them in a different binary that the OS mediates access to as needed.
Is there seriously not enough interest in a basic, capable web browser that doesn't implement this stuff that an OSS project can't be started up to focus on it?
browser or spice? (Score:3)
"The browser extends profits. The browser expands marketshare. The browser is vital to web traffic."
Sundar Pichai: Remedy this situation, restore browser production, or you will live out your life in a pain amplifier!
"The Web is the Browser! The Browser is the Web! "
Browser Worker: Sire, we can't leave all these browser plugins.
CEO Lars Boilesen: Damn the Browser!
Andreessen: He cares more about his men than the Browser. I have to admit, against my better judgement, I like this CEO.
"He who controls the brows
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"He who controls the browser, controls the universe!"
Oh Dear Lord He's RIGHT!!!
http://scaleofuniverse.com/ [scaleofuniverse.com]
Oh, Flash Required...
Bwahahahaha...
Seriously, putting Quantum Foam at the lowest level was a nice touch, but had they looked more closely they would have seen that the foam is made of turtles...
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It's convenient.
If you don't like the holes that it may or may not open, turn off auto-update, sandbox an environment, then test it and submit a bug report, get your cash bounty, and quit whining "get off my lawn" non-sense.
I for-one like how simple it is getting to use my devices like this. Those "smart" TV's and "smart" media players have menus/interfaces that can kiss my ass.
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Those "smart" TV's and "smart" media players have menus/interfaces that can kiss my ass.
If they could kiss your ass, then they could also kiss other things, and the profit margins on smart TV's would be much, MUCH higher than they currently are...
Re:Why Does My Browser Need to be a Server? (Score:4, Insightful)
The juxtaposition of stories on the /. front page answers the question. Why Does My Browser Need to be a Server?
FBI Director Says Prolific Default Encryption Hurting Government Spying Efforts
Google: solving problems.
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Sure, but why is Chrome still... (Score:2)
...worse than Firefox in every imaginable way.
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Come back when Firefox is properly multithreaded and not plagued by memory leaks.
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Come back when Firefox is properly multithreaded and not plagued by memory leaks.
Hey hey! 2016 is here! You can enable e10s in Firefox 48. Also, haven't had memory issues since firefoxs 45. The browser stays around 300 and 500 MB RAM.
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Well, you haven't had memory issues, but a significant percentage of user have had memory issues for years and years, and nothing seems to have helped those users. That speaks of a codebase that's extremely crufty and hard to maintain.
I'm glad to hear Firefox is finally get some sort of multithreading. But it just feels like too little, too late.
Re: Sure, but why is Chrome still... (Score:2)
I've /never/ had a problem with memory when I compile it myself, optimized for my system environment and CPU capabilities.
When I use the prebuilt binaries from Mozilla it is a terrible experience.
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If you're on Windows, you can try Waterfox instead of going through the hassle of compiling it yourself. As a bonus, a bunch of the less-desirable features that Mozilla has been shoving into Firefox are removed.
On Linux, I would assume most users aren't using Mozilla's binaries (rather they would be using binaries compiled by the maintainers of their distro). Even so, I'd use IceCat (IceWeasel) as it also strips out some of the crap I don't want built into my browser.
Or use Palemoon instead, which doesn't
Bloat (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Bloat (Score:5, Insightful)
It's funny that the same people who refuse to add bookmark dividers/separators into Chrome because of "extra UI complexity" [chromium.org] have no problem adding bloated cruft like this.
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It's not "funny", it's probably The Suits seeing Cast as (somehow) profitable, and dividers not.
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Chromecast adds zero UI complexity because it doesn't appear to anyone who doesn't own a chromecast device.
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I think that is his point. What UI complexity is added to anyone who doesn't want a divider shown? But dividers doesn't sell more chromecast devices. /thread
-dk
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What you call bloat, others call functionality. If Mozilla tried this in Firefox, this discussion would be 300 comments long, so it's refreshing that its competitor gets called out for 'unnecessary' stuff. :)
If you have a Chromecast, why wouldn't it see much use? Not everyone wants to plug a 3m HDMI cable from their 12" laptop to their 50" telly every time they want to watch a youtube presentation.
What would concern me as a FOSS-weenie is yet more closed-source stuff being added to the Chrome platform. If i
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Also, great news for porn users.
Until you miss click and send it to your mum's TV.
and broke nn% of the cast-supporting sites... (Score:2)
The API to actually detect whether or not chromecast is available changed in the switch from extension to built-in.
Quite a few software systems, particularly packages with few dedicated developers including Subsonic, are now broken.