Google Chrome

[Bazooka Joe71]

Wow, smells like someone drank the Google Kool-aid.

Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to my non document stealing Firefox that doesn't sell my personal information to companies for exploitation.

Nice gesture though.

[W9ZEB]

From a purely technical aspect, Chrome has a couple of VERY cool features.

The Java Runtime is completely re-written into an extremely lean and mean engine called V8. It should net HUGE performance increases for Java based web applications.

Each Tab is its own process, which means if the tab running youtube videos pukes because of Adobe's completely buggy closed source plugin. You don't have to close the other 14 tabs you have open, you can just close the borken Youtube tab.

Each tab is in a Sandbox. To those familiar with Unix servers, this is roughly the same as a Chroot Jail. Which will make it VERY difficult for traditional Browser based attacks to infect the host computer.

Since Google Is releasing Chrome as a 100% open source application. If the License they are using is compatible I'd imagine parts of the new browser will make it into FireFox 4. Since Safari, and Opera are not open source, I suspect they will be less likely to include parts of Chrome in future versions due to licensing.

[Episcopus]

I will probably give it a try when it comes to Linux, but I really like Opera and don't anticipate switching.

[W9ZEB]

Originally Posted by Episcopus

I will probably give it a try when it comes to Linux, but I really like Opera and don't anticipate switching.

Same, although I'm attached to Firefox.

[Episcopus]

Originally Posted by W9ZEB

Same, although I'm attached to Firefox.

Not sure why, but I have always had better luck with Opera. Each person/system is different, I guess. I keep Firefox installed on my machine, I just don't use it unless something really hates Opera. Some flash-heavy pages don't work well with it, but I feel that is Adobe's fault for not making Flash plug-in for Linux Opera. What distro do you run?

[W9ZEB]

Originally Posted by Episcopus

Not sure why, but I have always had better luck with Opera. Each person/system is different, I guess. I keep Firefox installed on my machine, I just don't use it unless something really hates Opera. Some flash-heavy pages don't work well with it, but I feel that is Adobe's fault for not making Flash plug-in for Linux Opera. What distro do you run?

Using Ubuntu 8.04, FireFox 3.0.1 & the Beta Flash 10 Plugin.
The bottom 5 images are current, The top row are older installs across a couple of different systems.
Screenshots of my linux systems

[Episcopus]

Originally Posted by W9ZEB

Using Ubuntu 8.04, FireFox 3.0.1 & the Beta Flash 10 Plugin.
The bottom 5 images are current, The top row are older installs across a couple of different systems.
Screenshots of my linux systems

I need new computers. My laptop's integrated graphics card doesn't support any desktop effects, and my desktop is too old and under-powered. I am running Ubuntu 8.04, too.

[sanzo87]

yea google does not have the impact that for some reason people seem to think it does. i dont get why the notion that it does?????
it exploits peoples info and only has its "worth" because of this and the ridiculous amounts of ads and such that they push for other companies.

[MACHINEGUN]

I think I'll be sticking with Mozilla Firefox.. if it ain't broke.. why fix it?

[trusite]

Originally Posted by Pami

Just out of curiosity... why does it make you laugh that people are concerned about retaining their intellectual property rights?

If you wrote a paper, submitted it to your instructor as homework, and your instructor claimed rights to portions or all of that paper (without necessarily giving you credit for it) in order to sell his or her services to someone else, that would be a funny situation to you? Because that's effectively what that portion of the EULA says, and some of us don't find that particularly entertaining.

in what situation have you people ever even heard of someone getting their work changed/editted (etc.) by Google?? I would understand if there were multiple cases regarding the issue but until now, i have never even heard of that idea. Google puts out free services and im sorry that there is one thing you dont like about it. lol


oh, and all the firefox fans.. you can thank Google for that to! aka they pay mozilla