safari is THE worst thing. behind even ie. it installs a truckload of crap alongside with itself (quicktime, itunes even) and it reinstalls them if you manually remove them. additionally, there is no personalization/customization possible with it.
chrome is atleast 5x faster than firefox on linux. though its only about 2x faster on windows.
i thought firefox people might have been optimizing for linux but seems like they don't give a shit about oss.
you know what? firefox is slow as shit on ubuntu. i don't know why but even ie6 inside wine runs faster than firefox native. this is why i avoid chrome on win7 but use it anyway in ubuntu.
With Facebook you choose what information you put or post there.
With Google you do not - they have what you have typed to address bar, what you have searched for, what your emails contain, what sites you visit, how you're there, what you do (analytics) and so on..
Actually both Google and Microsoft are worried about this - see my subscription here for a request to change relating laws.
you CHOSE to use google, didn't you? and didn't you CHOOSE to use gmail? how is this any different from facebook?
It's useless. some people refuse to realize that ads are not inherently bad. they are obnoxious/annoying only when they are irrelevant for you. google is trying to change that. by tracking your activities google can show you ads that are actually useful to you. i just can't see any problem with that. and google, unlikw m$, won't share your data with the government of china.
no, i don't want to make a choice between searching or entering a url. i want it done automatically. what chrome does is what the future of browsing will be like.
actually, i like the fact that google knows so much about me. it really helps when news results are auto suggested and really relevant adverts reach me. adverts are not bad, you know. they are bad only when they are irrelevant/useless for you. google is changing that. you see ads of only those things you are interested in. and its not that google is sharing info with any third party.
interestingly, i couldn't care less about that news. because i'm not in the us!
that's probably the only good thing to come out of living in india.
we have so many real life problems, no one cares about the internet. and even if i have to give up bittorrent i can walk 500 meters to the nearest market and buy any game/movie for pc/xbox/ps3 for ~50 bucks. of course i'll stop paying 1000 bucks for unlimited internet then.
i don't know if i'm doing something wrong but on ubuntu 9.10, it pops up an ugly update list and waits for me to click update and enter my password.
if there is a way to tell it to do so automatically please tell me, i'll be glad to hear it.
the problem with flash video is that it stutters on my core duo laptop running a fully updated ubuntu 9.10. by the way, compiz runs perfectly on the same laptop.
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noscript blocks you from downloading files?
actually, foxit is much lighter than adobe. and as a bonus it does not install the adobe AIR crap automatically.
safari is THE worst thing. behind even ie. it installs a truckload of crap alongside with itself (quicktime, itunes even) and it reinstalls them if you manually remove them. additionally, there is no personalization/customization possible with it.
chrome is atleast 5x faster than firefox on linux. though its only about 2x faster on windows. i thought firefox people might have been optimizing for linux but seems like they don't give a shit about oss.
i opened four tabs of news articles. cpu usage remained 4-5% on both cores. memory usage jumped ~4mb. what ancient set up are you using?
Have you even used Firefox lately? It's a bloated piece of crap now.
especially on ubuntu.
thanks. i really did not know about this.
you know what? firefox is slow as shit on ubuntu. i don't know why but even ie6 inside wine runs faster than firefox native. this is why i avoid chrome on win7 but use it anyway in ubuntu.
Actually you are spot on, but for other reasons.
With Facebook you choose what information you put or post there.
With Google you do not - they have what you have typed to address bar, what you have searched for, what your emails contain, what sites you visit, how you're there, what you do (analytics) and so on..
Actually both Google and Microsoft are worried about this - see my subscription here for a request to change relating laws.
you CHOSE to use google, didn't you? and didn't you CHOOSE to use gmail? how is this any different from facebook?
if you use ie8 you will notice (apart from its bugginess) that it ias atleast twice as fast as firefox.
It's useless. some people refuse to realize that ads are not inherently bad. they are obnoxious/annoying only when they are irrelevant for you. google is trying to change that. by tracking your activities google can show you ads that are actually useful to you. i just can't see any problem with that. and google, unlikw m$, won't share your data with the government of china.
no, i don't want to make a choice between searching or entering a url. i want it done automatically. what chrome does is what the future of browsing will be like.
also, i was surprised to find bing as an option in chrome.
actually, i like the fact that google knows so much about me. it really helps when news results are auto suggested and really relevant adverts reach me. adverts are not bad, you know. they are bad only when they are irrelevant/useless for you. google is changing that. you see ads of only those things you are interested in. and its not that google is sharing info with any third party.
maybe he should have used 'consumers'?
interestingly, i couldn't care less about that news. because i'm not in the us! that's probably the only good thing to come out of living in india. we have so many real life problems, no one cares about the internet. and even if i have to give up bittorrent i can walk 500 meters to the nearest market and buy any game/movie for pc/xbox/ps3 for ~50 bucks. of course i'll stop paying 1000 bucks for unlimited internet then.
i love tpb. isohunt guys are just wimps. tpb shutting down its trackers has been a good move imo. dht is better.
i don't know if i'm doing something wrong but on ubuntu 9.10, it pops up an ugly update list and waits for me to click update and enter my password. if there is a way to tell it to do so automatically please tell me, i'll be glad to hear it.
its called sarcasm.
fuck apple
Hear, hear!
Google, moving against their own child, HTML5? Ahaha.
oh well, i guess you hear something new everyday!
...I am using Konqueror...
you are irrelevant.
um, it works on mac too.
At this point the most significant security hole in web browsing are Adobe products, so yes, it does add problems every other browser doesn't have.
FTFY
the problem with flash video is that it stutters on my core duo laptop running a fully updated ubuntu 9.10. by the way, compiz runs perfectly on the same laptop.