Google Chrome - reasons to avoid
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Recommended: Click here to check for outdated driversAs we reported, Google has released the first beta of their new web browser, Google Chrome. Within a day of its release, there are already a couple of points that users should be cautioned of before using this new browser.
The first, is the popular "carpet bomb" vulnerability that still exists within Chrome, as pointed out on our forums by our member matessim. This vulnerability allows malicious websites to drive by download and execute programs on your machine. Our visitors may remember the uproar that this same vulnerability caused for Safari users, and that Apple patched the carpet-bombing issue with Safari v3.1.2.
The other, and less technical, problem with Chrome exists in its EULA. More specifically, the point that would seem to give Google rights to anything you post on the Internet while using their browser, mostly in conjunction with the promotion of its services.
Update: Google has rectified the EULA issue.
"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and pro
There is also the point that Google reserves the right to automatically update and install Chrome. Interesting, "the software which you use may automatically download and install updates from time to time from Google. These updates are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the services and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new software modules and completely new versions.
Now we're all used to seeing automatic update functions built into software. It seems that almost anything you install these days has one. However, very few demand that I install their updates. What if I don't want to because the new version includes a bug or breaks something else on my computer? Although, one would hope that they'd use this automatic update feature to fix the flaw pointed out above.
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Comments(11)
the eula has already been corrected.
it is crap ware, nothing more needs to be said....
i'd would stop using the internet before i would ever use that browser or any other
piece of google software. google is world's most evil corporation.
i don't install any betas, period - too many past problems. but the company google has
a soft spot in my heart for being the only major isp who didn't bow down to the us
government when they demanded the isp's give them names of individual customers who had
searched on certain keywords (ie, terrorist, assasination, etc.) - you remember, shortly
after 911. google docs is wonderful after f***ing around with open office for several
months. google also indexes more pages than any other search engine. why do you hate
them??
i do not trust google! that's th why!
firefox is the best!!
i just cannot explain this rush for "chrome, the browser" otherwise than by curiosity
of the geeks and google hysteria of the innocent ones. things will deflate quickly i
think.
by the way, i wonder if chrome will stay as long in beta stage as gmail :
google seems to have made of betas a highway of its destinations ... sorry for my english,
i'm french.
chrome is fast and does the job
firefox 4 ever , f-u-c-k chrome,
chrome is crap ware, i like firefox, is the best browser of the world!
chrome is going to have bad flaws for a while, but what they have so far is great. it may
take a while to get the browser to an acceptable level of capability, but it does have
major potential. they are not trying to compare it to firefox either, this is majorilly
about taking on ie. ill still use firefox, but chrome may have enough to it in the future
for people to make a swap from other browsers.
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Google Chrome - reasons to avoid (not so many)
By Daniel on 05.09.2008 - 23:09