Chrome Opera
Published by Ninth Stage September 4th, 2008 in Blog Stuff.I tried Google’s Chrome browser but scrapped it after an hour. Google seems to think that we should put up with it’s spyware phoning home every five or ten minutes and Google installs bonus crap onto your computer that uninstalling doesn’t remove. Don’t be evil? How about don’t be Google.
On the other hand the experience prompted me to try Opera, the (mostly) forgotten browser. After an hour playing with it, my firewall hasn’t bothered me once about other Opera apps trying to access the internet. Opera is fast and has many of the features that Chrome has. I like the ability to drag tabs off of and onto a window. I’m not used to the way tabs operate and I don’t like the fact that my extensive imported bookmark list blocks the menu bar.
If you’re looking to try a new browser, I suggest Opera over Chrome.
UPDATE: Google innovation fail. It seems that Google Chrome is a crapware infested release of the open source browser project Chromium. Unfortunately there are no installer ready releases available so to try it out you’d have to compile the source. Chromium found through Rob Allen’s place.
I just heard this, “Marketing Metrics. Ctrl+Shift+N gets around that”.
I’m going to see if I can find that code in the source code and comment it out.
I suspect it’s the wrapper Google put chrome in so I don’t think the problem comes from Chromium’s source code. Google’s installer loads some Google crapware and has Google Installer load itself on startup, and it is the app phoning home.
It’s like I have this Google-zombie army living down the street from me, out there across the freeway on Charleston - riding big-tired bicycles and wearing their all-the-time casual clothes and drinkin’ diet Pepsi… Be afraid.
Dirt - You’re too close to the epicenter. The radiation’s gonna get ya. ;)