Buffy Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 So, who's gonna be the first to try Chrome? Put your reviews here! Me? I *always* wait for version 2.... It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market, :)Buffy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 I cant wait to get Google to collect more information about me.... yaaay is it just me or it came out for win xp and vista only? dont get me wrong, i love google, but i like my firefox the way it is :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffy Posted September 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Yah its sounding pretty ugly. Here's what you agree Google has the right to do if you install it (h/t Microsoft Watch):When you type URLs or queries in the address bar, the letters you type are sent to Google so the Suggest feature can automatically recommend terms or URLs you may be looking for...Your copy of Google Chrome includes one or more unique application numbers. These numbers and information about your installation of the browser (e.g., version number, language) will be sent to Google when you first install and use it and when Google Chrome automatically checks for updates. If you choose to send usage statistics and crash reports to Google, the browser will send us this information along with a unique application number as well. As the author says, "can you say Keylogger"? I think Google is well on their way to being The Next Evil Empire. We passed on their Ajax library because they lockup the translator between the Java you have to write and the javascript it generates. Don't be fooled but.... Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, :hyper:Buffy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Lol Windows does all that and a lot more anyways... so what are you worried about with google, at least they don't share the info with the gov-t, unlike the mentioned above company...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffy Posted September 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Lol Windows does all that and a lot more anyways...Keylogger? Hmmm?so what are you worried about with google, at least they don't share the info with the gov-t, unlike the mentioned above company...?Are you................suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure? Actually, its not that I *trust* Microsoft, its that I think they're too *stupid* to do much that's nefarious! Unlike our friends at Google who are the "smartest guys in the room...." I don't really trust a sane person, :hyper:Buffy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Keylogger? Hmmm?upon your connection to the update server, every website you have gone to, every movie you have watched, every song in your play list hits M$ servers. Buffy, collaboration to stay in business in China is not the same as disclosing information. While google will say "search term restricted", it will not send an email to the gov-t saying "Hey, this ip address at this location was just googling for this term... I will stay with goodle until the day they disclose private information (and i consider much of the information as private) to a private or gov-t entity... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeztar Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 upon your connection to the update server, every website you have gone to, every movie you have watched, every song in your play list hits M$ servers. I've never heard of that. Is it in the EULA? Where's this info locally stored? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 I doubt that's in the EULA, this was discovered by actually looking at the transmitted data at the time of the sync. M$ may have encoded it better, but i am sure they still are transmitting gathered user spy data... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffy Posted September 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Well, they're trying: Google, whose new, faster Web browser Chrome has raised privacy concerns on both sides of the Atlantic, said yesterday it was taking steps to mask the identities of people who use the tool....Jane Horvath, Google's senior privacy counsel, said that the company would be anonymizing the Internet Protocol address and the cookies that track users when they type search terms or Web pages into Chrome's Omnibox, an all-in-one search and address bar...."My main concern is the ability to collect users' Web addresses, and therefore your complete surfing on the Web could be tracked," Germany's data protection commissioner, Peter Schaar, said of Chrome. "The Web is, in fact, a second life. A virtual mirror of one's real life, with information about one's interests, activities, perhaps sexual orientation."...Alissa Cooper, chief computer scientist at the Center for Democracy & Technology, said, "If all they're doing is removing a portion of the IP address, I don't think it really renders all of their logs anonymous. If you're truly anonymizing it so there is no IP address, no cookie, and no identifying information in the log itself, then there's significantly less privacy concern." I still say that Microsoft is to stupid and inept to do anything with the garbage they're hoovering. I get scared about Google because I know how smart they are and how the best intentions can go awry.... For most of history, Anonymous was a woman, Buffy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrmdave Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 What worries me about google is that so far, they seem to be rather benign, but they have massive amounts of data, massive computing power, and the trust of the people, which means that it may only take a few changes in the leadership and suddenly the Big Friendly Giant isn't so friendly anymore... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerseun Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 When you type URLs or queries in the address bar, the letters you type are sent to Google so the Suggest feature can automatically recommend terms or URLs you may be looking for... Yahoo's been doing that for ages. And I still prefer Yahoo. Call me an idiot, call me what you like, but if you have nothing to hide, what do you have to fear? Yahoo's search suggestions work a charm, and led me down alleys and pathways on the net that I've never even thought of. As a non-kiddie-porn surfer or axe murderer or serial killer or terrorist or somebody who don't like their URL history generally made public, I highly recommend it. You can, of course, disable the feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 And I still prefer Yahoo.ah, the inferior advertising giant.... Yahoo is a lot less reluctant to release info to the gov-t or share it with advertising databases tho... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djsee4 Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Fact: 1 in 3 Vista users revert back to XP. Both my wife and I have the same issues with the Vista version of IE. It incorporates problems and needs to shut down thereby restarting me on my famous home page at a loss for what happened. What does this have to do with Google Chrome you ask? The answer "multiprocess architecture." On Chrome if something happens to cause a crash in one tab it only shuts down that tab. This may not bother Firefox or Safari users at all. Welcome to the age of cloud computing. This shifts importance to the "rendering engine." Speed may be Chrome's most significant advance articulating JavaScript 10X faster than those mentioned and 56X faster than IE 7. Did I mention "incognito mode" offers private surfing by a simple tweaking. The only catch is being offered in Windows only. Seems Linux and Mac have something to be jealous over after all. More like an attack on Microsoft. Is the browser becoming the equivalent to an OS? The answer is yes. I forgot to mention you can drag the tab to open a new window completely marking the advent of the cloud. The non-intrusive combo address bar / search engine is the self titled "omnibox" by Google which is the Incredible Hulk of "I'm Feeling Lucky." Mind you this did not merit eliminating the option of importing the sometimes easily clogged "bookmark bar." In closing talk of the Google browser have been like Yeti and UFO sightings for years. Now that it exists it should generate trust as proof the Google books are not being cooked. Remember the browser evolution that left Netscape behind around 1998. Chrome has the power to do the same to IE. Sit back and watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Must have Chrome...Must have Chrome...Must have Chrome......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 i still dont want google spying on me, that is more then they already are, until they release a non-logging version of chrome, i shall not pass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djsee4 Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 QUOTE: "i still dont want google spying on me, that is more then they already are, until they release a non-logging version of chrome, i shall not pass" If you are not going to pass, then why are you against it?? :D I think I get the point, but remember INCOGNITO MODE is one click away inside the tools menu. Problem solved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 nope i want a version that does no logging to begin with... i shall not pass from FF that is, i shall not pass over to chrome... sheesh, you watch LOTR at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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