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FAQ BasedOP 04/06/15 (Mon) 03:37:04 No.1[Reply]

What is Zirconium Project?

We are a bunch of anons from /tech/ working to de-botnet Chromium and make it more secure and privacy-centric

Simple as that

Where can I download it?

We are not at that point yet, we just started

Are there any repos?

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Dev 04/26/15 (Sun) 17:52:28 No.158

>>89

>Dev

>Fucks up counting to four

That's a great sign.

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Inox vs Zirconium? Dev 01/17/16 (Sun) 08:34:18 No.182 [Reply]

What advantage would this project have compared to inox? https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset

It combines patches from multiple distros and some of it's own to remove google botnet

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Zirconium dead sage 05/14/15 (Thu) 05:31:08 No.166 [Reply]

So, the project is essentially dead. Half of the posts here are mine anyways. No commits, forks, or even discussion in a month. It's dead.

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Dev 05/18/15 (Mon) 12:24:31 No.169

>>167

This

>>168

The problem were the waves of botnetards throwing shit at the project for being based on chromium and wanted to push their own shitty browsers project that nobody uses

The reality is that chromium its only getting harder and harder to use, google its leaving broken and as-is so people will install chrome instead, meanwhile most of the 3rd party development goes to shitty commercial forks from russia and china that are even more of a botnet than chrome is

Dev 05/27/15 (Wed) 00:49:45 No.170

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I don't think there are enough people with technical skill that even know about this. There's also the issue for someone with intermediate skills like myself: where on Earth do we even get started, and what needs changing? I can't even locate the main function to work my way through, searching for calls back to Google servers. The code is so immense that it's almost impossible to find where contributions are needed.

Dev 06/20/15 (Sat) 12:53:01 No.174

>>166

you might hate this but advertising the Zirconium project on reddit/HN/voat might be a good idea.

The project is a good idea but it requires quite a high technical skill and patience to sift through a metric shit ton of google code

Dev 06/23/15 (Tue) 08:44:02 No.175

I was the guy who made logos what happend?

Dev 09/11/15 (Fri) 00:24:58 No.181

>>174

Voat seems to be dead as fuck these days, the subs I was subscribed to have zero activity

As for reddit, thats a maybe but problem is it might take some social clout I don't have there to get people behind this project, same with HN which seems full of PR fags these days

>>175

We lost all momentum, simple as that

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. Dev 08/23/15 (Sun) 09:58:44 No.178 [Reply]

You're a dead board.

ALL BANEPOSTERS ARE FAGS

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Dev 08/27/15 (Thu) 08:35:04 No.179

"For You" -GooShill.

Dev 09/06/15 (Sun) 16:08:18 No.180

>>178

nuh-uh

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Removals Dev 04/06/15 (Mon) 20:49:08 No.26 [Reply]

O.K can we all agree that adobe flash player should be removed from zirconium. Also what else would you like specifically removed/added to the repo.

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Dev 04/20/15 (Mon) 19:43:11 No.142

>>140

>>141

Neither of you will ever release a decent FOSS project. Have fun being the owner of a bloated botnet browser.

Dev 04/21/15 (Tue) 01:56:46 No.144

>>142 Got anything that says that using WebGL will make you part of the Chrome botnet mate?

Dev 04/21/15 (Tue) 03:15:00 No.146

Google Web Store, replace with only manual installation of plugins or custom-made store? Latter might be hard but maybe a website with xpis?

Dev 04/25/15 (Sat) 04:06:31 No.155

>>144

Yeah, fucking common sense.

Dev 06/23/15 (Tue) 22:50:04 No.177

>>26

TODO: remove the "autodownload blob from google.com and run it" feature that /tech/ was talking about

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HTML5+1 Dev 04/17/15 (Fri) 09:19:39 No.134 [Reply]

Question:
Can the browser be modified to allow for more non-standard (soon to be standard if done correctly) HTML ?

I was thinking about removing 90% of the need for javascript programming by simply adding to the HTML standard things like


<a href="/partial_page" dom_target="#target_div">

and


<div href="/partial_page" refresh="2000" load-at-start="true">

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Dev 04/25/15 (Sat) 15:31:13 No.156

>>134

Isn't that what frames used to do in HTML4? You could embed one page in another and navigate it separately from the rest of the page.

I remember it being deprecated because it fucks up a bunch of stuff, like bookmarks, history, and particularly, printing the page.

Dev 05/11/15 (Mon) 21:50:03 No.165

>>156

>I remember it being deprecated because it fucks up a bunch of stuff, like bookmarks, history, and particularly, printing the page.

just like javascript… wow nice job w3c

but no it has some differences, frames weren't able to auto refresh nor update only some subtree of the DOM they always took space from the page and you couldnt use selectors to provide the given target…

so I ask again (after a month) is it possible/good idea to get away from the w3c standards?

Dev 06/14/15 (Sun) 11:44:51 No.171

It's a bad idea to deviate from the standards until you get some clout with major browser devs

Dev 06/23/15 (Tue) 22:46:23 No.176

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>>171

But what if the standards are shit?

If the implementation is good and just works soon the major browsers would do it too

Just think of the miracle anon, javascript riddled pages would be deemed obsolete in no time if we can guarantee 90% of the functionality

It's hardly a tag and an attribute, will not render on any old html standard browser, but who cares? If the content is interesting the users will migrate to this browser and remove the old ones

It's the same thing Microsoft made with IE and ActiveX, they extended the protocol and then everyone moved to it because they needed functionality

Also isn't the whole point of markup languages like html to be extended if needed?

Why can a company like microsoft/apple/mozilla dictate what tags/css you type in and follow through but the free community doesn't?

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Concepts/ideas Dev 04/06/15 (Mon) 22:50:14 No.36 [Reply]

REPO
https://github.com/mou4e/zirconium
THINGS TO DO THREAD
General thread for ideas and concepts. Everyone is welcome to contribute, regardless of knowledge and experience.

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Dev 04/25/15 (Sat) 00:09:29 No.153

Remove platform information from user agent. Really the user agent should just be:

Zirconium

Dev 04/25/15 (Sat) 04:04:33 No.154

>>149

Have you ever contributed to any FOSS project, ever? It certainly seems like nearly no one here has. People seriously want to include shit like a user agent string changer, modified UI, OpenGL, fucking flash, and noscript. Why people think any of these are a good idea in a default install continues to ellude me. Have fun making your own unsuccessful mini-botnet.

Not-Dev 05/09/15 (Sat) 17:22:52 No.161

>>71

Don't want square tabs, lets focus on the backends for now.

Dev 06/14/15 (Sun) 11:50:02 No.172

>>149

>Browse hidden services (.onion)

That's what tor does. Leave tor's job to tor.

>>154

>Why people think any of these are a good idea in a default install continues to ellude me

If it's going to be a privacy-centric browser something like noscript is a no-brainer to include

Dev 06/20/15 (Sat) 02:46:03 No.173

>>153

I hate that that is probably the best compromise because the actual most anonymous choice would be to pass oneself off as the most popular Windows browser.

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Beggining to this journey Dev 04/06/15 (Mon) 19:22:22 No.24 [Reply]

Guys, quit arguing about banners and art. What languages are you guys comfortable with? Chromium is written in: Assembly, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, and Python, so this is no small undertaking. I, for one, am really eager to contribute. Let's remove google integration first, then we'll focus on security.

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Dev 04/09/15 (Thu) 11:27:46 No.113

>>106
Pretty competent with C, C++, Python, Bash, x86/x86-64 assembly, ARM assembly (ARMv7, ARMv8 AArch32/AArch64). I use them for my day job. Not all that competent with web languages and technologies.

Hopefully we won't be making many additions to the code base anyway, mostly just removing shit, replacing shit with better alternatives, and patching code that fails code/security audits. It'll make it easier to keep in sync with upstream that way.

Running both Gentoo and Windows 10 boxes at home. Also have a Cubieboard ARM Cortex A7 development board running Void Linux currently, will probably pick up a Cubieboard A80 (ARM Cortex A15) when my supplier starts to carry them, and various Android development devices.

Dev 04/09/15 (Thu) 11:33:20 No.114

>>107
Chromium is nearly 17 million lines of code. If you want to rewrite it in your "bandwagon hipster language that will be dead in 7 years anyway," go right ahead.

Dev 04/10/15 (Fri) 15:00:58 No.126

>>109
To be honest, I can't even find any ASM files in the repo. The assembly is probably in C files, and even then it's most likely very vital stuff.

Dev 04/11/15 (Sat) 20:32:20 No.127

>>114
>dead in 7 years anyway

That is actually pretty optimistic

Dev 05/11/15 (Mon) 12:09:46 No.164

>>114 Using something called 'foreign function interface' small parts of the browser can be rewritten…

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The logo Anony 04/06/15 (Mon) 15:13:02 No.14 [Reply]

What do you guys think?

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Dev 04/22/15 (Wed) 16:47:51 No.150

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Dev 04/23/15 (Thu) 16:58:56 No.152

>>102

Flip it horizontally and highlight the Z in it. So it's the 8chan infinity but part of that is a Z.

Not-Dev 05/09/15 (Sat) 17:33:23 No.162

>>150

>>151

Ugly

Not-Dev 05/09/15 (Sat) 17:34:30 No.163

>>14

I like it

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/tech/ Dev 04/25/15 (Sat) 22:29:21 No.157 [Reply]

Are you guys gonna announce the release of this on /tech/?

Dev 04/26/15 (Sun) 19:28:58 No.159

We already started this on tech and had to create a new board because of all the shitposters there

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I'M BEHIND 10 PROXIES Dev 04/07/15 (Tue) 21:26:50 No.80 [Reply]

i hope Zirconium will have 10 proxies instead of wimpy Tor's 7

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Dev 04/08/15 (Wed) 07:17:02 No.101

Expecting a web browser to have any amount of proxies built-in is ridiculous. Most proxies are hosted by people who will most likely store and sell your information, making you browsing even less secure. Just look at tor, signing in to anything is an awful idea, because your credentials will be sniffed and sold in bulk along with other idiot's usernames+passwords.

Dev 04/08/15 (Wed) 15:15:59 No.103

Se could implement for in some way or a proxy manager

But free proxies? Nigger you crazy

Dev 04/08/15 (Wed) 16:10:08 No.105

>>103
Please, stop suggesting that there should be plugins in the default install, that's fucking retarted.
See: >>92

Dev 04/09/15 (Thu) 20:20:06 No.123

>>80
Something like a Tor mode completely disconnected from the main session would be cool.

Dev 05/04/15 (Mon) 09:27:28 No.160

>>101

>>103

>implying OP isn't shitposting

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