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Chrome 42 Launches With Push Notifications
An anonymous reader writes: Google today launched Chrome 42 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with new developer tools. Chrome 42 offers two new APIs (Push API and Notifications API) that together allow sites to send notifications to their users even after the given page is closed. While this can be quite an intrusive feature for a browser, Google promises the users have to first grant explicit permission before they receive such a message.
So after all the problems with malware-ridden popups and other unwanted crap Google gives us this?
Sure, there's no way it's going to get abused. Or cracked.
Can we go back to the web being "Hey can I get your page at site.tld/page.ext ?" and "Sure, here is what you asked for, and not an entire cart of horseshit jammed in with it, alongside it, or after it! Thank you for visiting our website, valuable reader / customer!"?
Accidentally visit a pr0n site?
Even after you leave
And clear your browsing history
Don't you be deceived
You give your presentation
On the conference room screen
Up pops a message
"More from the gay porn scene!!!"
"You're into coprophagia"
"Here's some more new sh*t!"
"Wow, your wife gives you anal"
"With her strap-on dick?"
"We need some more nude photos"
"Like you sent us the last time."
"Need more bestiality?"
"We've got it all on line"
You claim your innocence
And protest "It's not mine!"
But you still end up
In the unemployment line.
Burma Shave "Come back to our
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Oh great, so if I stumble on a page so full of crap that I decide to backtrack the hell away, the site can still shove notifications in my face, even though I clearly don't want that content? Yeah, I have to explicitly allow it, that's awfully nice of them. But how long will opting out last when the advertisers realize they can force a few more eyeballs? Is there another browser out there that hasn't been bloated to death with "features"? I jumped from Firefox to Chrome when they started churning versions, but Chrome just jumped the shark by doing the same thing.
Left MS Windows for Linux Mint and never looked back!
Vote for Bernie in 2016!
Java is Broken in Chrome 42. Totally. There is no way to run Java in the browser, at all. In any way.
Trying to run any Java app results in this: http://i.imgur.com/Imuxmay.png
There's a ticket open here:
https://code.google.com/p/chro...
Schlock Mercenary.
Way back in the day when Microsoft was unleashing IE onto the world, everybody howled that they were introducing new IE specific things for websites to be able to provide, eg ActiveX. Now it seems that google is doing the same thing with Chrome. In both cases the idea is to take ownership of the web...
Does your iPhone violate Canadian law as well? It too has push notifications.
Make no mistake, I will disable or somehow block this "feature". But seriously - You can't really whine too loudly over your favorite free and not-default-on-any-platform program suddenly including a feature you don't like.
Lately the middle button in Chrome has been deprecated, and it doesn't do what it says on the tin. Sometimes I middle-click on something and the page just begins scrolling, for example Youtube videos (even when not yet loaded!) especially in G+, which is a place you especially don't want to scroll accidentally. Also, image galleries which are probably hosted by google are just coming up as a slideshow in the current tab instead of opening a new tab. Google reserves the right to change the behavior of Chrome only for their sites, and up yours.
I wouldn't use Chrome at all, but some Google sites sometimes only work properly in it. Youtube is the primary example. Sometimes a given resolution will choke in Firefox, sometimes in Chrome, and there's no apparent rhyme or reason to it.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The web is far from the most complex device ever built by humans. It's no more a single engineering project than the old landline telephone system was. Heck, if you're just looking for replicating the same thing over and over as THE measure of complexity, look at any large city. The space shuttle was far more complex.
Apparently you haven't read the W3C on HTML5 and CSS 3 specs :-)
http://saveie6.com/
I use SeaMonkey which is the descendent of the old Mozilla suite.
Its got all the same web engine stuff as Firefox does but it doesn't have the crappy UI or some of the other "unwanted" crap from Firefox.
I'd like to quote from a famous song, "We Built This City", by artists Jefferson Starship.
troll level:
9000
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
You are complaining that you have to turn something off which is disabled by default. You just told everyone you prefer being upset to being well-informed, and that is not very becoming.