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Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium)

posted by janrinok on Saturday June 27 2015, @09:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the did-not-want dept.

"gewg_" writes:

El Reg reports

New Chromium builds will no longer download/install the Hotword Shared Module and will automatically remove the module on startup if it was previously installed.

A closed-source and binary-only kernel module caused a fair fuss when it was found inveigling its way into the very much open-source Chromium.

Thanking the community for their attention and input on the issue, one of the project developers told the issues ticket thread that "as of the newly-landed r335874, Chromium builds, by default, will not download this module at all."

[...] An additional developer update regarding Hotword explains that "Builds of Google Chrome will still download this module by default. It will not be activated unless the user explicitly flips a preference to do so."

Related: Google Drops Binary Code into Chromium for Linux

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  • (Score: 2) by istartedi on Sunday June 28 2015, @05:42PM

    by istartedi (123) on Sunday June 28 2015, @05:42PM (#202466) Journal

    The lead developer of that browser? Betty Botter [wikipedia.org].

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