What privacy concerns?
Chrome vs Firefox
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What privacy concerns?
Someone might have to spell it out to me. What privacy concerns? I don't get what that Article is saying. Yes I'm stupid.
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Is there anyway of syncing bookmarks between Firefox and Chrome?
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Because modern PCs have a shortage?
If you use Google Chrome, Google will know every URL you type into the location bar. More than that, they will know (almost) every partial URL you type into the location bar. More than that, they will know every word or phrase you type into the location bar, even if you type it and then delete it before pressing enter. More than that, all this information can be linked with your main Google account, because Google sends your cookie along with every automatic search it performs from the location bar. Chrome will use the cookie of whatever Google account you are currently logged into.
A lot of people don't seem to care about this, but they're the same people who void their bowels when UltraSuperAntimalwareBytes2010 finds a tracker cookie....
What with Chrome, and more recently the unauthorised aquisition of WIFI data from peoples net connections, I don't trust Google at all.
One big keylogger of a corporation.
And funnily enough, I'm not a member of the foil hat brigade!
I play an online version of RISK, and for users they have a firefox extention notifier which sits in the bottom right corner with a series of lights which turn green when its your turn to move in a game, and there's also a greasemonkey script which provides enhanced game data. Those are both keeping me tied to firefox since otherwise I would forget my turns/in 'simultaneous' games it means I wouldn't act as early, which could be important in some games.
extension, GM script.
I don't know the first thing about coding, but I assume it would be fairly complicated to port them to chrome or other browsers, which is why it hasn't been done before now, right?
extension, GM script.
I don't know the first thing about coding, but I assume it would be fairly complicated to port them to chrome or other browsers, which is why it hasn't been done before now, right?
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i was using firefox till it refused to work with plugins on vista for some reason on my laptop. swapped to google and found tons better. ive always been a firefox fan but i think google, once you get used to its way round of things its good
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The adblocker seems good now, before it used to load them, and then block them. Now it blocks them before downloading.
That gmail checker is a long way off Gmail Notifier. But it's a start I guess
Will spend a month on Chrome and see how I like it
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If I have 5 tabs open, and I'm working in tab #1, then I press Ctrl + T, how can I make this open as the new tab #2 (instead of being #6)
If you use Google Chrome, Google will know every URL you type into the location bar. More than that, they will know (almost) every partial URL you type into the location bar. More than that, they will know every word or phrase you type into the location bar, even if you type it and then delete it before pressing enter. More than that, all this information can be linked with your main Google account, because Google sends your cookie along with every automatic search it performs from the location bar. Chrome will use the cookie of whatever Google account you are currently logged into.
A lot of people don't seem to care about this, but they're the same people who void their bowels when UltraSuperAntimalwareBytes2010 finds a tracker cookie....
What with Chrome, and more recently the unauthorised aquisition of WIFI data from peoples net connections, I don't trust Google at all.
One big keylogger of a corporation.
And funnily enough, I'm not a member of the foil hat brigade!
So the same as typing an address into google each time? Are you suggesting nobody should use google ever to do a search since they will know what you searched for? I thought that went without saying. Of course they will know that. I'm not sure I'm getting the big deal here.
ive started using chrome (usually use firefox) im quite liking it so far, snappy, simple...BUT i do find it annoying that chrome saves files from the internet without allowing you an 'Open' only option. hope that gets sorted soon
Indeed it's not even a small deal at all and being completely blown out of proportion by people who don't really have much of an idea of what's actually going on.
Press ctrl + 0, you're ever so slightly zoomed out. Firefox saves your zoom level on a per-site basis.
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