Comments on: Google Chrome: first impressions

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:32:39 +0000

Incognito mode meaning the old “Private Browsing” feature of Safari?

By: George Toms

George Toms — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:50:32 +0000

Google Chrome is really fast!

Now I can sort 200,000 records inside of Browser (Chrome) just in 1 sec. (Faster than Microsoft Excel):

http://www.ardentedge.com/ex_if.htm

By: benmully

benmully — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:15:55 +0000

I tried, was slightly impressed, then sad it didn’t support Google bookmarks. I uninstalled.

By: Carl Lewis

Carl Lewis — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:07:51 +0000

Usually, when a browser is reviewed its security and privacy functionality is scrutinised in detail. Yet not a single reviewer seems to have considered this, they seem so besotted with Google’s latest offering. I like the look and feel of it, but it seems to be nothing but a vehicle to allow Google to acquire data. No cookie management, all your browsing history is passed directly to Google (isn’t that the same as Phorm?), with no way of seeming to be able to control that.

Initially I was well impressed. now I’m less so. IF it does become the number one browser on the market then Google will be a whole lot richer and we will have happily handed over all that personal information we’ve been trying to protect for so long.

I’m no conspiracy theorist (says he creating one), but the bottom line is that the real reason Google created this browser was to have a more effective way of extracting the data that is the core of their business and I’m amazed that the reviewers seem to blinded to have noticed. So much for reviewers!

By: Ian Aldcroft

Ian Aldcroft — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:22:16 +0000

The offending clause has now been modified:

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services.

By: Josef Thörn

Josef Thörn — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:18:21 +0000

read the EULA 11.1
this browser will NOT see my computer anytime soon

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:17:49 +0000

It’s got a lot going for it, the interface, I like the “recently” used sites thumbnail page and the layout, but…

It’s flawed, seriously flawed, imho.. If you enter in an address/name within FF 3.0 you get to the list with one keypress and enter, with Chrome it’s two, one to go past the search facility. That’s bad design, one press good, two presses bad.

By: A Person

A Person — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:34:11 +0000

INCOGNITO MODE is not what it seems. Although no site history is retained on your computer in this mode, Google still records every search you make and your IP address with it.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:35:48 +0000

Interesting, every 5 mins of so, even without the browser running, a certain GOOGLEUPDATE.EXE is trying to access the net. Why? Why can’t it do this only when I launch the browser? They go on about the browser being lightweight and quick etc… but I don’t want unnecessary processes running like this!

By: dvl300

dvl300 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:09:48 +0000

hang on quote “you’re met with a grid of thumbnails of the nine sites you visit most often,”from top of page!

This is exactly what you can do in opera’s browser
what are google up to seriously!