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New Chrome Beta Adds Privacy Controls, Translation Option

Posted by Soulskill on from the on-the-campaign-trail dept.

billandad writes "Anyone would think the timing was deliberate; just as Microsoft is forced into giving users the option to switch from IE via the browser ballot screen, so Google introduces a new Chrome beta with enhanced privacy features to chisel away at Microsoft's market share. '... you can control how browser cookies, images, JavaScript, plug-ins, and pop-ups are handled on a site-by-site basis. For example, you can set up cookie rules to allow cookies specifically only for sites that you trust, and block cookies from untrusted sites.' The new beta also adds language detection, and will prompt the user to translate a page if it's written in a foreign tongue."

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  1. A bright future for the web... by levell · · Score: 4, Informative

    And Opera 10.50 has just been released too, the first version of Opera with <Video> tag support.

    With Chrome, Safari and Firefox all evolving quickly, the future of the web is looking good. I just wish they would all support an open, royalty-free codec.

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    1. Re:A bright future for the web... by Inner_Child · · Score: 4, Informative

      Too bad Opera won't be part of that since literally no one uses it.

      You don't know what 'literally' means, do you?

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  2. Re:Google? Privacy? by TSHTF · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't have to "trust" their browser at all.

    The source code for Chrome is freely available. If you find any features that are unfriendly towards privacy, you're free to modify the source.

  3. Re:Beta products from Google! by IBBoard · · Score: 2, Informative

    They passed 1.0 a long while ago. Chromium is up at 5.0 and Chrome is already beyond 4.0!

  4. Re:Hidden in plain sight by icebraining · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or: if you can have someone do it for you. See SRWare Iron.

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  5. Re:Will we ever have control over flash cookies? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Informative

    It seems no browser offers the functionality to wipe those out, and yet they can contain malicious code (there was a recent infection at the office).

    You might be interested in the BetterPrivacy plugin for Firefox.

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  6. Re:Google? Privacy? by Goaway · · Score: 4, Informative

    Good choice. Iron is a very questionable project, and the developer has admitted that he's just spreading FUD about Google to drive traffic to his site to make money off ads.

    Also, http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html

  7. Re:Choices by Skip1952 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bookmark manager works on my Mac version 5.0.335.0 dev, so it's coming to a Chrome near you soon I would guess.

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  8. Updates by gambit3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does it also allow for control over Auto Updates?

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