Google Chrome

[Valve Bounce]

Is anyone out there using Google Chrome as a browser? I find it a helluva lot faster than my Firefox - loads faster from scratch, and loads bookmarks faster, and just does everything faster.

[Fred Basset]

and Google love you too! All that info they're collecting from you to pass on to their "partners"

[Dave B]

When I uninstalled it (for being crap, slow, and full of compatibility errors) I had to manually remove many of the registry entries it left behind.

There's just something slightly creepy and sinister about the way Google put their arm round your shoulder and say "Fed up with Microsoft? Join us and everything will be ok. Just click 'accept' and never question us. We're free, remember, and we don't do coughmuchcough evil. When you wake up, everything will be just fine."

[Valve Bounce]

Common guys!! I need some guidance here. It is faster than Firefox on my old PC, and does what I need it to do.

If there is something wrong with it, please let me know what it is. Thanks.

[Wade91]

i dunno of any problems with it, i still mostly use firefox, becouse i was already in the habit, but i downloaded chrome a while back, and used it some, and it seemed pretty good

[gloomyDAY]

Common guys!! I need some guidance here. It is faster than Firefox on my old PC, and does what I need it to do.

If there is something wrong with it, please let me know what it is. Thanks.Guidance? Yeah, delete that crap!

There's your guidance. Google will peer into the depths of all your online activities without your knowledge, but since you hit "accept" they already have your consent.

[Daniel]

Guidance? Yeah, delete that crap!

There's your guidance. Google will peer into the depths of all your online activities without your knowledge, but since you hit "accept" they already have your consent.
Wot he said.

[Valve Bounce]

Guidance? Yeah, delete that crap!

There's your guidance. Google will peer into the depths of all your online activities without your knowledge, but since you hit "accept" they already have your consent.

You mean just like that geek does in The Eagle? :(

[Valve Bounce]

OK! so here's the question: supposing I don't ever surf anything confidential, then is it serious if I use Google Chrome? I find it a helluva lot faster, both loading from scratch as well as surfing than Firefox. I mean I don't say that many really bad things in the forum, and I really don't care if they see that I like Kimi better than Bunsen.

What the hell can they do with all that information? Take ioan for instance; if he used Google Chrome, he'd drive Google crazy!! :eek:

[Rudy Tamasz]

What the hell can they do with all that information?


They will be in a position to advertise crap to you, talk crap about you and sue the crap out of you in the court, if they really want to. Chances of that happening are slim, but who knows...

[Valve Bounce]

They will be in a position to advertise crap to you, talk crap about you and sue the crap out of you in the court, if they really want to. Chances of that happening are slim, but who knows...

Me?? talk crap about me?? sue me?? At my age, I'll be dead by the time they get around to that!!

But seriously, am I supposed to erase my Google Chrome before I get into trouble??

[Dave B]

You won't get into trouble, unless you start making flippant comments about assasinations which get taken seriously :uhoh:

What you are doing, though, is giving a private company an enormous amount of information about you including every website you visit. They can then target advertising to you, and unlike other browsers I'm led to believe it's near enough impossible to block adverts in Chrome.

There's nothing inherently wrong or underhand about this, but consider recent data losses and ask yourself if you're really comfortable for an organisation to hold so much information about you.

If you're happy with Chrome then carry on using it. Personally IE8 and a halfway decent hosts file is fine for me, others swear by Firefox with Adbock.

[Valve Bounce]

OK! so when I start getting too much adverts, I'll erase this browser and all it's derivatives. Right now, I don't get any adverts sent to me. Nobody wants me. :(

[harsha]

I use chrome for my daily stuff like browsing the forum etc.

[Valve Bounce]

I use chrome for my daily stuff like browsing the forum etc.

Me too. That alone will confuse Google completely. :D

[Daniel]

I use chrome for my daily stuff like browsing the forum etc.
You're assuming that Chrome is just spying on what Chrome does.

[wedge]

Opera - its quick and doesn't eat memory

No need to download Adblock either (which is consitantly sh*t from personal experience)

[Daniel]

Opera - its quick and doesn't eat memory

No need to download Adblock either (which is consitantly sh*t from personal experience)
I've never quite understood why people still block ads. It made sense in the 56k days when it meant your pages loaded a minute quicker but now?

[wedge]

I find them annoying and less clutter when I visit favourite websites

[Valve Bounce]

You're assuming that Chrome is just spying on what Chrome does.

I use it for everything. I also visit the DTV forum, so if Google wants to spy on what I post, they will probably go crazy from the stuff I post. :p :

OK Daniel!! What is OPERA like? Is it as dangerous as Chrome?

[wedge]

Opera is similar to FF except it doesn't hog memory

[Valve Bounce]

OK. So should I erase Chrome and download Opera instead?

[wedge]

Nah

Best to have a few browsers just in case.

I still use FF & Safari for Porno Mode AKA private browsing :D