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Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:38:24 +0000

[...] Chrome — potential root level DPI advertiser I recently blogged about Google Chrome’s information tapping and their horrible EULA. Days after release, Google [...]

By: Rob Gonda

Rob Gonda — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:09:14 +0000

German Federal Office for Information Security warned internet users of the new browser Chrome: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-07-n33.html

By: Rob Gonda

Rob Gonda — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:51:18 +0000

@Media boy, new article just in… TraceMonkey, a new JavaScript engine by Mozilla is faster than Chrome’s V8: http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/09/03/new-firefox-javascript-engine-is-faster-than-chromes-v8

By: Rob Gonda

Rob Gonda — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:27:10 +0000

@Nacho Libre, so check it out:
Google Chrome EULAs requires users to “give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and nonexclusive 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.”
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080903-google-on-chrome-eula-controversy-our-bad-well-change-it.html

By: Rob Gonda

Rob Gonda — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:42:07 +0000

@Nacho Libre, great link…. wish I could find one I was reading earlier where someone from Google interviewed and admitted about all the data collection in a really sarcastic way … If I find it I’ll add it here.

@Media boy, I’ve been using it for a couple of days, as well as FF and IE, and I can say some things are faster, others aren’t. Every time you open a new tab it takes a while, I guess it’s because it sets up the sandbox environment for it…. However, for web applications it’s blazing fast, check out this report or JavaScript benchmarks: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html

By: media boy

media boy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:06:49 +0000

should be interesting to see if Chrome works more efficiently than FireFox and IE… if it’s faster than Firefox, since isn’t IE, then i’ll use it

By: Nacho Libre

Nacho Libre — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:40:12 +0000

Conspiracy theories be damned! check this out!! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/

By: Rob Gonda

Rob Gonda — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:51:24 +0000

@Nadja & Marcio, you’re absolutely right, we can see what they send. But it’s not a conspiracy, and in fact, Google doesn’t even hide it. I installed it today and it prompted me if I want to send anonymous statistics to Google _to improve the product_. They’ve been getting data thru the Google Toolbar the same way… I’m not complaining or saying it’s bad… raise making a point of one of the benefits for them. In fact, another benefit that just came to mind is as Firefox gains market share, they will have to pay them more to use Google as the default search engine …. Just trying to see it from all angles.

Cheers

By: Marcio

Marcio — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:52:19 +0000

That was exactly what I was going to say. People already started making some conspiracy theories about google watching your behavior. PAY ATTENTION: It is OPEN SOURCE!

You should be more worried about IE

By: Nadja

Nadja — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:50:52 +0000

At least you can check how much information about your ‘action and behavior’ gets send to Google, since it is open source…