[LinuxUsers] temporarily offtopic: Google Chrome

Chris Penn cantormath at gmail.com
Sat Sep 6 04:32:23 UTC 2008


Dante,

You are absolutely right, but, there would be a good reason to bash M$
more compared to google.  I am personally not very interested in
chrome unless its open source.

Chris...

ANything is better then IE.

chris...

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Dante Lanznaster <dantecl at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have one thing to say... If it was M$ releasing this same piece of
> software, there would be 100% more bashing. Privacy is just non-existant,
> vulnerabilities/DoS stuff have already been disclosed (don't even start with
> the "still in beta" argument).
>
> I have absolutely no reason to migrate to Chrome just because it renders a
> webpage 1 second faster. I might consider having it installed on the side
> when having a browser with 100% Acid3 rendering will improve the overall
> browsing experience. Other than that, Firefox 3 all the way (oh and not
> supporting addons/plugins is a major showstopper, especially in Linux)
>
> just my 2c
>
> -Dante
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Jeff Lasman <jplists at nobaloney.net> wrote:
>>
>> I preface the subject line with "temporarily offtopic" because Google
>> will no doubt eventually create a version of Chrome for Linux.
>>
>> I'll let others, if they be so inclined, write about how good Chrome may
>> be; I choose only to point out this:
>>
>>
>> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/chrome_privacy_is_full_of_dents.html?kc=EWWHNEMNL090408EOAD
>>
>> Jeff
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