Leerwerker Report post Posted September 3, 2008 (edited) Hi everyone! I loaded CHROME from Google last night and I am using that as a browser. It is like jumping from the 19th century - steam driven - into the 21st century - whispering by on hydrogen. I used Firefox before, but I doubt I will go back to that. All the cool features I enjoyed in Firefox are simply even better in Chrome. It is small. super fast, ultra intuitive, extremely user friendly and a definite MUST-TRY! You can get it at http://tools.google.com/chrome/?hl=en-US WOW!!!!! Edited September 3, 2008 by Leerwerker Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ArtS Report post Posted September 3, 2008 I heard about this yesterday. Thanks for reminding me. I downloaded and it's a lot faster. ArtS Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rdb Report post Posted September 3, 2008 As with everything Google does, there are privacy concerns. Google makes money on targeted advertising. The more they know about your web surfing the more money they make. Read their EULA first before diving in. I have heard very good things about their browser, it's tempting, but I'll wait a bit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ArtS Report post Posted September 3, 2008 They're still working on it so I'm sure bugs will come up and changes will be made. I will still use Firefox as my main browser while I check Chrome out. ArtS Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leatheroo Report post Posted September 3, 2008 i am going to use chrome for a while...i like it so far Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wolvenstien Report post Posted September 3, 2008 rdb has a point about the end user agreement. This has been the focus of some heated discussion the past few days. As rdb also said.... I too will be sticking with FF until they change the EULA to where I am not an unpaid employee or prisoner of theirs. Here are afew quotes from the EULA: "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." And that is directly from the end user agreement..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leerwerker Report post Posted September 3, 2008 I am comfortable with everything I do on the web - reading or publishing. What these guys say in their license agreement is what I would expect them to say in any case. I also like the way Google do their advertising - it is never intrusive and could just as well not have been there. And it keeps their superior products free, as opposed to the money grabbing Gates and his severely inferior products (that you have to pay for through the nose). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rdb Report post Posted September 3, 2008 Well, it seems the Google has been called on the carpet all day, and so badly, they had to say "Oops" http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080...-change-it.html But as usual with the Google, things aren't always what they seem... "So, there you have it: a tempest in a (chrome) teapot. Not that it's the only one; as Ina Fried of News.com points out, Chrome's "Omnibar" can also access all keystrokes a user types, and Google will store some of this information along with IP addresses. " Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wolvenstien Report post Posted September 4, 2008 Yeah, thats just scary as hell.... I am an adult, I do look at adult type things.... nothing illegal.... but still.... me submitting to this is like me submitting to random warrentless wire tapping of my phone.... sorry.... not in my back yard.... Too much blood has been spilled for me to have the rights I have as an american citizen to just say I am ok with it because I have nothing to hide. Me not having anything to hide is not the point.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wolvenstien Report post Posted September 5, 2008 Chrome EULA updated by overwhelming demand and outrage:::: Update to Google Chrome's terms of service 9/04/2008 11:22:00 AM Whenever we release a product in beta as we just did with Google Chrome, we can always count on our users to come up with ways to improve it. This week's example: several eagle-eyed users and bloggers have expressed concern that Section 11 of Google Chrome's terms of service attempts to give us rights to any user-generated content "submitted, posted or displayed on or through" the browser. You'll notice if you look at our other products that many of them are governed by Section 11 of our Universal Terms of Service. This section is included because, under copyright law, Google needs what's called a "license" to display or transmit content. So to show a blog, we ask the user to give us a license to the blog's content. (The same goes for any other service where users can create content.) But in all these cases, the license is limited to providing the service. In Gmail, for example, the terms specifically disclaim our ownership right to Gmail content. So for Google Chrome, only the first sentence of Section 11 should have applied. We're sorry we overlooked this, but we've fixed it now, and you can read the updated Google Chrome terms of service. If you're into the fine print, here's the revised text of Section 11: 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. And that's all. Period. End of section. It will take a little time to propagate this change through the 40+ languages in which Google Chrome is available, and to remove the language in the download versions. But rest assured that we're working quickly to fix this. The new terms will of course be retroactive, and will cover everyone who has downloaded Google Chrome since it was launched. Posted by Mike Yang, Senior Product Counsel Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TwinOaks Report post Posted September 5, 2008 Yeah, the devil's always in the details.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OutBackP Report post Posted September 6, 2008 I too downloaded chrome last night, but I don't like it. It has some good points, I like the option to clear all my cookies up for the day and even all my history. But it doesn't do it. When I open a new tab, there's my web pages that I have been on. I can't find a way to remove them. If you save passwords with your browser, where are they kept? What if I want to view them. For a basic browser I think it may work fine. but its less customizable than Firefox and I don't like blue. Personally I use a lot of Google products and if they keep going with the new browser then hopefully they can get people away from IE. But I think Firefox is still a better browser with a much better logo. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hammerhead Report post Posted September 8, 2008 "Big Brother" has been watching sence 1984 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Schno Report post Posted September 8, 2008 I downloaded it a few days ago, but until the new Google browser can use the old Google toolbar, I don't have much use for it. Google toolbar is one of the best things they've come up with. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
