Google Chrome

Posted on Tuesday, 2nd September 2008 @ 10:10pm

The Browser wars are expanding and Google has just launched its foray into the war - Google Chrome.

I am posting this message using Chrome and I think I like it. It's fast and has a minimalist style.

It also seems to import all the settings from Firefox.

It has a few nice bells and whistles too - you can drag a tab to the desktop to open a new browser, and you can drag tabs between browsers. It is also supposedly better with web applications.

The url/address/omni bar is a little ugly with the large font and slight greying out bits of the url, but it is usable. Not as good as the Firefox "Awesome Bar".

From the options menu I chose to show the homepage button and not to give Google the permission to snoop (it already knows way too much about me!). A few more options whopuld have been nice, but overall, I like it.

Did I mention that it is fast?

Posted on Wednesday, 3rd September 2008 @ 1:24am

It's good.

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Posted on Wednesday, 3rd September 2008 @ 1:51am
Joie de Vivre wrote:
It's good.

Yup - just need a few more privacy options such as delete cookies on close etc etc.

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Posted on Wednesday, 3rd September 2008 @ 4:50pm

Somethign not so good about Chrome - the EULA:

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

Via El Reg.

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The enemy of my enemy is my... enemy.