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I'm trying out Google's new browser, and I have to say it's quite nice. I've only run into a couple of odd things in how sites render - mostly to do with width of elements.

And it's fast. (of course that may be a function of my having a ton of plugins in Firefox slowing it down)

Questionable privacy policy.

Chacor wrote:Questionable privacy policy.

Maybe so, although frankly reliably maintaining one's privacy on the net take way more discipline and effort than most people are willing to invest.

I was more interested in sharing impressions of the technology. Pretty bare-bones so far, and I've managed to crash it many times tonight - including crashing the whole browser twice, which it's supposed to be designed to prevent. It might have something to do with the fact that I installed the latest Java runtime beta since that was necessary to make java apps run in Chrome. Crashed firefox one time on the SSD site also, although the floater loop is running fine now.

Anyway, Chrome looks interesting but it's got a long, long way to go before it has any chance of displacing firefox for me.

Chacor wrote:Questionable privacy policy.

Why I'm staying with firefox as default. I'll try out Chrome but won't give it much info to work with and unless it's heavenly compared to firefox (doubtful) I won't have it be a default.

And yes I do realize it will still invade my privacy by installing it alone.

Questionable is putting it lightly. Accepting to the original release agreements gave google legal rights to take any information you wrote through email, forum or anything and basically take your idea and use it as their own, royalty free. I heard they removed that from agreement but there is also a lot more. Also looking at benchmarks of it's speed it's really not as good as they seem to say