Thread: Google Chrome

Anyone else using Googles new browser? I love it so far, it's fast as fuck. The only bad thing about it is the lack of plugins, especially adblock.

I love that each tab has its own process. I'm using it over Firefox for the time being.

http://www.google.com/chrome

I'm waiting for a stable linux version to be released. Can't be bothered trying the windows one through wine.

I'm not on Windows enough to bother trying, but I heard it's resource intensive. Is that true?

Compared to FF yeah but it doesn't really feel like it.

Read the fine print:

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which 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 license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license 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.

All your postings are belong to them!

Originally Posted by Anonymous d

Read the fine print:

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which 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 license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license 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.

All your postings are belong to them!

And this is why I stopped using it and went back to Firefox, oh and no plugins

Originally Posted by jojo

And this is why I stopped using it and went back to Firefox, oh and no plugins

The EULA has been updated. Also, do you not use Microsoft word? They own everything you write. Do you not use blogs online? Because they call first dibs. Do you really think Google is going to take over the world with it's cache of your bizarro porn searches? Grow up.

Originally Posted by MalReynolds

The EULA has been updated. Also, do you not use Microsoft word? They own everything you write. Do you not use blogs online? Because they call first dibs. Do you really think Google is going to take over the world with it's cache of your bizarro porn searches? Grow up.

Yes but everyone knows google collects and sells on private data, Google stores the info online and can easily sell it / pass it on, whereas MS would have to STEAL your documents to gain any info you type (since word isn't directly connected to the net). I don't trust Google at all, and when you say grow up, it shows you know little about what Google does...

Originally Posted by MalReynolds

The EULA has been updated. Also, do you not use Microsoft word? They own everything you write. Do you not use blogs online? Because they call first dibs. Do you really think Google is going to take over the world with it's cache of your bizarro porn searches? Grow up.

Its called OpenOffice. No I don't use MS word nor do I blog, people using Microsoft word are the ones that really need to grow up. Also there is a major difference between typing something in a word processing program vs transmitting data through a program over the internet.

Yeah no plugins means I won't be using it, plus what Anony D posted makes me never want to use it.

i dont even know what the hell that even means

meh ff for life, operas probably better but its been so long

Well, I mean, Google did assasinate my father after he found out about their machinations.

What the fuck do you have against Google? 4srs, I'm looking for any kind of evidence.

I use it and like it and don't care about that thing

I've seen that part of the EULA posted around the internet, doesn't bother me one bit. I'll risk it for now.

And that is why I avoid proprietary software

I will not use a web browser who owns everything I view or type in their web browser. I was actually going to post that part of the EULA when I saw this thread, but I got beat to it. Oh look, you upload your research paper to your file server in google's web browser... Google fucking owns it now. As well as the drunken pictures you upload to facebook, meh.

I browse CD and a couple of other sites on it and watch porn through IE anyway. It can own my content if it likes, it is quite nice to use.

Is Google's office actually made of solid gold bricks? Because they own everything and they're totally psychorich.

I wish I was one of the two homos that made it. Even if it meant buttsexs with a dude called Sergei.

Firefox is still better, but knowing google it won't be for long.

Well, I tried Google Chrome and there aren't enough buttons for me


I think I'll be FF4LYFE, unless Google pulls off something amazing.
And Adblock is available for Google Chrome...in a way. Read more here: http://www.fritscher.ch/blog/2008/09...-with-privoxy/

I dont use Word or blogging. I use Corel Word Perfect.

Originally Posted by Anonymous d

I dont use Word or blogging. I use Corel Word Perfect.

Make the switch to OpenOffice, you broke ass college student!

Originally Posted by BlahMan_of.Doom

Well, I tried Google Chrome and there aren't enough buttons for me

I thought that was the nifty part. I've never been a fan of how big navigation bar, et al is. Once it allows add-ons, I could see myself using it much more often.

Originally Posted by coldfyre

Those that are concerned about the EULA are fucking retarded. That EULA was copied from one of their other EULAs and they forgot to remove that part. Google has already changed it and the change is retroactive, meaning if you downloaded it before the change, THE CHANGE STILL AFFECTS YOU. So if you are bitching about Google owning anything you do in the browser, go fuck yourself you ignorant prick.

You are correct, the EULA is now amended to

"11. Content license from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. "

Removing the part where they legally own everything you type, view or upload via their web browser. I was not aware that they had changed it. Just because Google did not "mean" for it to be in there did not change the fact that LEGALLY IN WRITING they owned everything that transmitted through their browser. And that to me was unacceptable, but that stipulation has been removed.

That's just like... your opinion, and stuff.

Oh, and just FYI: Google sold me your search results for goat fisting, so I know it's true.

I mean you can be aloof as much as you want, but do you not think google's actions in the area of customer confidentiality are a bit dodgy? They've been criticised many times before. I mean, yeah, it probably makes little practical difference, but do you not feel at all uneasy? Or are you just an aloof pretentious swine?

Originally Posted by benzss

Or are you just an aloof pretentious swine?

This.

And also because they refused a court order to give out search results some time back because it would violate something or other.

But mainly the swine thing.

I've been hearing so much about. Is it really that good? I'm using Firefox 3 right now and don't see a reason to switch unless the Beta is that much better.

The only thing I miss about FF is the stumbleupon plugin. But that's why I have FF as a backup still.

thats why i haven't bothered downloading chrome, although i am intrigued

I just typed a 5 paragraph post about Google, but because CD is new and I forgot to check "remember me," I lost the post.

I will sum up.

1) Google is not evil.
2) Google is not evil.
3) Conspiracy theorists always question corporations or single entities with large amounts of power (as they should).
4) In this case, Google is not doing anything so shady that we must shun them.
5) Google treats their employees better than almost any other corporation in the USA.
6) Google is committed to maintaining the privacy of their users.
7) Chrome is fast, efficient, sleek, and precisely what I want in a browser. I haven't looked back since the release of the beta.
8) Google is not evil.

It's so much faster than firefox and I haven't had any crashing issues. Far outweighs not having adblock

Originally Posted by solecistic

I just typed a 5 paragraph post about Google, but because CD is new and I forgot to check "remember me," I lost the post.

I will sum up.

1) Google is not evil.
2) Google is not evil.
3) Conspiracy theorists always question corporations or single entities with large amounts of power (as they should).
4) In this case, Google is not doing anything so shady that we must shun them.
5) Google treats their employees better than almost any other corporation in the USA.
6) Google is committed to maintaining the privacy of their users.
7) Chrome is fast, efficient, sleek, and precisely what I want in a browser. I haven't looked back since the release of the beta.
8) Google is not evil.

Not to mention from a management and corporate philosophy perspective they are leaps and bounds ahead of what just about every company but IBM is doing.

The problem with people who aren't switching to Google Chrome (or, more importantly, who are shunning Chrome and its advances) is that they aren't grasping its purpose. Chrome is effectively an OS in competition with Windows, not a browser in competition with Firefox. Chrome is built as a platform for internet applications (which are the next killer app not named Zoints!) In releasing Chrome, Google has forced IE and Firefox to change their philosophy on the browser. Google is forcing the market to focus on desktop-app stability and speed so that users can begin using its internet apps in direct competition to products like MS Office, Lotus Notes, Photoshop, and the like. They're taking one out of IBM's play book in that they are willing to use open source agreements to establish a standard and then be the foremost product to take advantage of the standard once its set. They're letting others build the market for them, and then planning to release the best product in the market once it's there.

As mobile networks are getting increasingly fast, you can expect phones in coming years to be running off a product similar to Chrome because it's more efficient to leave the processing power in a Google cloud and improve battery life and speed by letting the speed of the network be the constraint, not the speed of the device.

Chrome is a genius idea even if the project dies next week. Microsoft and Mozilla have already released plans to compete with it based on the tab divisions (which means it's almost ready for corporate introduction--right now Google Docs is lost on the corporate market because you can't afford to lose a 20-page business proposal because PerezHilton locked up your Firefox and crashed it.)

Originally Posted by Atmosfear

Not to mention from a management and corporate philosophy perspective they are leaps and bounds ahead of what just about every company but IBM is doing.

The problem with people who aren't switching to Google Chrome (or, more importantly, who are shunning Chrome and its advances) is that they aren't grasping its purpose. Chrome is effectively an OS in competition with Windows, not a browser in competition with Firefox. Chrome is built as a platform for internet applications (which are the next killer app not named Zoints!) In releasing Chrome, Google has forced IE and Firefox to change their philosophy on the browser. Google is forcing the market to focus on desktop-app stability and speed so that users can begin using its internet apps in direct competition to products like MS Office, Lotus Notes, Photoshop, and the like. They're taking one out of IBM's play book in that they are willing to use open source agreements to establish a standard and then be the foremost product to take advantage of the standard once its set. They're letting others build the market for them, and then planning to release the best product in the market once it's there.

As mobile networks are getting increasingly fast, you can expect phones in coming years to be running off a product similar to Chrome because it's more efficient to leave the processing power in a Google cloud and improve battery life and speed by letting the speed of the network be the constraint, not the speed of the device.

Chrome is a genius idea even if the project dies next week. Microsoft and Mozilla have already released plans to compete with it based on the tab divisions (which means it's almost ready for corporate introduction--right now Google Docs is lost on the corporate market because you can't afford to lose a 20-page business proposal because PerezHilton locked up your Firefox and crashed it.)

yeah its great that chrome is adapting to using the increased amount of resources on todays computers but chrome is a web browser not an os. until isps stop being huge babies about bandwidth and limits then large applications are going to stay on your computer.

also tons of places use google docs (large universities, businesses) and there is an auto/manual save feature so i think you dont know what you are talking about

also stop saying that its amazingly fast its just webkit

Originally Posted by Atmosfear

The problem with people who aren't switching to Google Chrome (or, more importantly, who are shunning Chrome and its advances) is that they aren't grasping its purpose. Chrome is effectively an OS in competition with Windows, not a browser in competition with Firefox. Chrome is built as a platform for internet applications (which are the next killer app not named Zoints!) In releasing Chrome, Google has forced IE and Firefox to change their philosophy on the browser. Google is forcing the market to focus on desktop-app stability and speed so that users can begin using its internet apps in direct competition to products like MS Office, Lotus Notes, Photoshop, and the like. They're taking one out of IBM's play book in that they are willing to use open source agreements to establish a standard and then be the foremost product to take advantage of the standard once its set. They're letting others build the market for them, and then planning to release the best product in the market once it's there.

As mobile networks are getting increasingly fast, you can expect phones in coming years to be running off a product similar to Chrome because it's more efficient to leave the processing power in a Google cloud and improve battery life and speed by letting the speed of the network be the constraint, not the speed of the device.

Chrome is a genius idea even if the project dies next week. Microsoft and Mozilla have already released plans to compete with it based on the tab divisions (which means it's almost ready for corporate introduction--right now Google Docs is lost on the corporate market because you can't afford to lose a 20-page business proposal because PerezHilton locked up your Firefox and crashed it.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...chard.stallman

Granted, he gets a bit too tinhatish for me, but I tend to agree on most points. Cloud computing is a buzzword imo, and has actually existed for a quite some time as SAAS. It has it's merits and places, but I don't think I will be moving towards this as my entire OS anytime in the near future.