Google Chrome!

[brianarn]

If you read my "real" blog or participate in a forum where I do, there's a chance you've already seen this post. However, I put a lot of time into writing it, and I think it makes for good blog fodder, so I'm pushing it out all over the place. Bear with me. :D Anyhow, on with the crosspost

Comments

[gowerlypuff]

I'm just worried that Chrome is merely a front for More Google Ads(tm), where slowly they infiltrate all of your browsing experience. Google's one of the worst companies out there for information privacy, and I'm wary enough of them without them being able to access EVERY PAGE I GO TO EVAR.

[brianarn]

Would you care to substantiate your thoughts on information privacy? They don't seem any worse than any ISP of sorts out there.

Also, it's all open source. If they slipped ads in there somehow, someone would fork it off and cut the ads. It's not something I see them doing. The people who do web tool deveopment at Google are generally some of the best and brightest out there, looking at improving the web, not monetizing it.

[gowerlypuff]

http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-553961... )

[brianarn]

Well, I asked, and you delivered. I can't argue with that. :)

I will readily think that your paranoia is a bit strong here, but you can readily back it up, so I respect that. You've got a setup that works for you and frankly, you sound more educated about it than most.

For me, I pretty much live and breathe Google, from GMail to GDocs to GReader. Having the browser is pretty much the next step. I realize they have a lot of info on me, but nothing that I'm concerned about getting out there, necessarily, as I do my best to make sure truly private information gets pulled and deleted and archived from my mail, so I don't mind it.

Between the improvements coming in IE8, Safari 4, Firefox 3.1, and now Chrome, well, it's a damned exciting time to be a web developer. :)

[luvcraft]

I'm super skeptical of Chrome from the get-go because I can't read their stupid comic because they're using some retarded java backend for it; when I click "next", I keep getting the same page, but then all of a sudden it will skip forward several pages and I can't go back to the pages in between!

Bad Google, overusing Java where you should be using super-basic php! No cookie!

[luvcraft]

OK, I've been using it for about 15 seconds, and I already think that whoever thought that the bookmarks button didn't need to be on the main toolbar should be fired.