Google engineers are experimentally adding Flatpak packaging support to Chrome/Chromium on Linux to test restricted sandboxing and XDG portals, without yet committing to official support.

sanitation@lemmy.today · 2 days ago

Google engineers are experimentally adding Flatpak packaging support to Chrome/Chromium on Linux to test restricted sandboxing and XDG portals, without yet committing to official support.

warmaster@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

I’m more excited about their possible contributions to the xdg portals.

Flatpaks need a more mature permission system that puts the user in control so that DE & standalone app store devs can make it powerful enough for the experienced user and easy enough for casual users.

Google engineers are experimentally adding Flatpak packaging support to Chrome/Chromium on Linux to test restricted sandboxing and XDG portals, without yet committing to official support.

Google engineers are experimentally adding Flatpak packaging support to Chrome/Chromium on Linux to test restricted sandboxing and XDG portals, without yet committing to official support.

Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With Flatpak Packaging