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2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux
AlienRancher writes "Google launched this morning a new beta version of Chrome 2.0: 'The best thing about this new beta is speed — it's 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version.' Other enhancements include user script support (greasemonkey-like) and form auto-fill." And reader Lee Mathews adds news of the open source version, Chromium, on Linux: "Not only has Chromium gotten easier to take for a test drive thanks to the personal package archive for Ubuntu Chrome daily build team, but development on the browser is also progressing nicely. Despite being a very early build, Chromium on Linux feels solid and boasts the same blazing speed the Windows users have been enjoying for months."
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Edit your hosts file (theres even one for Windows), and put in all adservers to redirect to localhost. There. No ads, similarly, no extra bloat from Adblock. Plus, it works on whatever, e-mail, browsers, etc.
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Not a wrapper.
Check out the Chromium Wiki for more info:
http://dev.chromium.org/Home
It's only called "Chromium" because it's an unofficial build; once Google finally releases a GNU/Linux version it is expected that it will also be called Google Chrome. At least that's what the article implies.
See the "this browser is not ready" start page:
Do you mean the stupid and annoying Googleupdate, that sits there. All the time. Running even when you aren't using any Google software? And that even when it runs on a schedule, will sit there all the time anyway, doing nothing?
Definitely a negative side to using any of Google's apps.
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Actually, there is a dialog box when the browser is first run. You likely clicked through it
Well I found out how to do it. I do not have ads anymore in chrome... Go here and follow instructions : http://www.adsweep.org/ Basically, since Chrome now support Greasemonkey scripts, you just have to have a good ad blocking script and adsweep is one. I wonder what will be the future extension mecanism of Chrome but with Greasemonkey, there is something very usefull and integrated in the web pages we use. So this is definitely interesting.
its not in msconfig as its installed a service (they thought of that) even hijackthis wont kill it due to permissions (it runs as system) if its running it puts itself right back
to remove it you need to
start>run>services.msc
find google service in list, double click it and take note of the service name
it should be something like googleupdatesvc(randomcharacters)
stop the service (if its running)
then open a command prompt (in admin mode if you are on vista) and type
sc delete "nameofgoogleservice"
then go into controlpanel>scheduled tasks
and delete the google job
and voila its not running anymore, then for full piece of mind delete the googleupdate exe in its folder.
As you can see, its just as malicious to remove as most spyware, so we (our company) treats it as such, the fact that its google[donoevil] means nothing to us as we can only judge by an applications behaviour
While somewhat effective, that's a very crude way of blocking ads. Adblock can block ads and other content based on regular expressions (for example, */ads/*) and can auto-subscribe to a regularly-updated blocklist. I especially like how you can pretty much click on a particular element and say, "here, block this" whether it's an ad or not. And it doesn't really add any noticeable bloat to the browser. My only gripe is that it doesn't support more browsers.
Note also that when using hosts, the whole computer tends to slow down when your hosts file is very large (install SpyBot and use the vaccination tool, and you'll see what I mean).
Also, when you use XP Pro with a webserver, the localhost blocking will show your site, since basically you do something like www.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1, which is VERY uncomfortable.
Wow, maybe Firefox 1 and 2, but 3 seems to have done away with that problem. I leave Firefox 3 open all the time and never have an issue, and I'm running an oldish computer by today's standards (AMD Athlon 64, AGP GFX, etc).
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