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Development, Privacy, and Standards for Chrome

Posted by Soulskill on from the chrome-chrome-chrome-chrome-chrome dept.

Continuing our coverage of Google Chrome, snydeq points out an Infoworld story about looking at the new browser from a developer's perspective, and another about how WebKit should be the focus of development efforts, rather than the browsers that use it. TGdaily notes that Chrome's search box will fetch all types of data, and can be made to display banking information with little effort. ABC and coderrr have slightly more paranoid articles questioning Google's commitment to privacy. NetworkWorld suggests that Chrome's unique process model (explained here) will require the development of new measurement standards.

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  1. Say "no" to Google spyware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want to try Chrome, use this version without the silently installed, never removed and hard to disable 'Google Update'.

    1. Re:Say "no" to Google spyware by David+Gerard · · Score: 4, Informative

      Direct Google link to standalone installer.

      Note that this doesn't install under Wine - you need the binary Zip file (which I can't find a direct link to) to try it under Wine. And it still doesn't actually work, so find the missing functions and get to work writing them for Wine ;-)

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    2. Re:Say "no" to Google spyware by pablomme · · Score: 3, Informative

      Wine 1.1.4 specifically includes "Several fixes for Google Chrome support". https support is still missing, though.

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    3. Re:Say "no" to Google spyware by ksd1337 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Oh, that's real nice. Chrome runs on Wine, but it doesn't even run on Windows 2000. I was disappointed to learn it didn't run on Win2k, because I have no XP/Vista machines.

  2. Re:Completely good and noble by David+Gerard · · Score: 2, Informative

    Eh? Non-starter? Apple used it in Safari because it was technically way easier to work with than Gecko.

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  3. Re:Gears and the storage API by David+Gerard · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uh, Google is participating wholeheartedly in the HTML5 effort. Which isn't a W3C standard as yet to become compliant with. Also, Ian Hickson, the editor of HTML5, works for Google (and has previously worked for Opera and Mozilla). It's entirely too much in flux to assert that they're trying to break a standard here.

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  4. Re:Completely good and noble by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You do realize WebKit is a fork a KHTML right?

  5. Re:Bad habbits formed from Firefox useage by shvytejimas · · Score: 2, Informative

    From firefox help:
    Open in New Window : Shift+Left-click