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Testing this in work now, pretty impressed 
I like the tabs above the address bar, oh and the application shortcuts are handy.
I like the tabs above the address bar, oh and the application shortcuts are handy.
Any word on the following?
- Showing of saved passwords
- Better bookmark organiser (even IE7 is better!) and bookmark tagging
- Live bookmarks
- Deleting individual URLs history
- Better address bar; like FF3's. (IMO it's worse than just your normal address bar now)
- Showing of saved passwords
- Better bookmark organiser (even IE7 is better!) and bookmark tagging
- Live bookmarks
- Deleting individual URLs history
- Better address bar; like FF3's. (IMO it's worse than just your normal address bar now)
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OOI do a lot of you save passwords in your browser? I used to, but now I just disable that option and prefer to type them in manually. Seems a bit dodgy keeping all your passwords in one location, no matter how well secured it is.
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Might be a little nicer to use the thumbnail matey...
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[*url=http://i36.tinypic.com/2qwl7qb.jpg]
[*img]http://i36.tinypic.com/2qwl7qb_th.jpg[/img][/url]Removing the * of course.
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Everyone at work has been told to uninstall Chrome due to security risks. About 45 people of 3000 installed it.
I can't remember my 20-string, upper+lower case alphanumeric with random sign passwords
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I have a 24 inch screen(shown in my sig btwget a bigger monitor
) it's no problem for me, i was thinking of the not so priviledged. 
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On a related note, anyone else think it's named in honour of Bill Gibson?
On a related note, anyone else think it's named in honour of Bill Gibson?
No.
Interesting...
Does it not concern anyone at the extent that Google is starting to dominate a large portion of internet use for users.
Search for anything - Google dominates
Advertising - controlled pretty much by Google
Video - YouTube, nope, that's Google as well
Email - Gmail (although hotmail still has more market share at the moment)
Location - Google maps and earth (although they still have some competition from MS)
Feeds - Google Reader
and now the browser as well.
So Google dominating may well be because they produce good products, but I must admit I am beginning to see a MS V2 emerging more and more and yet it still seems to have a trendy "we're the good guys" image.
What worries me increasingly is the amount of personal data Google is starting to control, and now with a browser potential access to it. OK so the EULA was a mistake, but the fact that that sort of "everything you do belongs to us" clause even exists in a Google EULA must set some alarm bells ringing?
With IE7 & 8 plus Safari for propriety browser and FF/Opera in the open source space we hardly need another browser (although innovation is undeniably a good thing). I just think in this case it's a step too far for me to be comfortable using it.
I don't think Google are evil per se, but I also don't think it's going to be healthy in the future for one mega corp to dominate the internet so completely for a large portion of users.
Just my 2c
Does it not concern anyone at the extent that Google is starting to dominate a large portion of internet use for users.
Search for anything - Google dominates
Advertising - controlled pretty much by Google
Video - YouTube, nope, that's Google as well
Email - Gmail (although hotmail still has more market share at the moment)
Location - Google maps and earth (although they still have some competition from MS)
Feeds - Google Reader
and now the browser as well.
So Google dominating may well be because they produce good products, but I must admit I am beginning to see a MS V2 emerging more and more and yet it still seems to have a trendy "we're the good guys" image.
What worries me increasingly is the amount of personal data Google is starting to control, and now with a browser potential access to it. OK so the EULA was a mistake, but the fact that that sort of "everything you do belongs to us" clause even exists in a Google EULA must set some alarm bells ringing?
With IE7 & 8 plus Safari for propriety browser and FF/Opera in the open source space we hardly need another browser (although innovation is undeniably a good thing). I just think in this case it's a step too far for me to be comfortable using it.
I don't think Google are evil per se, but I also don't think it's going to be healthy in the future for one mega corp to dominate the internet so completely for a large portion of users.
Just my 2c
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maps.live.com is great for the bird's eye view
Much prefer it.Also, I won't be trying Chrome just yet as I think it's a potential conflict of interests. Google are advertising driven, hence there could be sinister things going on in the background as far as your browsing habits and privacy are concerned. I'll wait for everyone else to test it and find the problems thanks
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Hey, just checked out my street on maps.live.com. not a bad view compared to Google Earths. Lol at seeing my old car in the drive way.
Unfortunately Athanor, that is the way that business works : shareholders want more money, which drives the business into new areas, etc etc.
Tesco do Insurance. Why the hell Tesco are in insurance, is mostly because Tesco bought an insurance company and now cream the profits off it and give it promotional positioning in Tesco's.
Basically, we have no rules that say that "promotion or positioning" of goods or services must be equal, so therefore anyone with a platform will eventually try to eat everything and push it through their platform - expect google to try and do everything on the web eventually because they consider the web to be "their" platform - just as Tesco would eventually do everything (produce alcohol, cleaning materials, insurance) by controlling the platform.
Its really, really dangerous, but people are stupid and lazy and think "oh its google, its safe" and create a little monopoly for the company. Quality and value for money was always driven by competition, without competition you will lose that process. Perhaps there should be laws concerning offering particular services detrimentally to the competition, forcing Tesco to offer competitors' services at the cash desk and so on with google...
Tesco do Insurance. Why the hell Tesco are in insurance, is mostly because Tesco bought an insurance company and now cream the profits off it and give it promotional positioning in Tesco's.
Basically, we have no rules that say that "promotion or positioning" of goods or services must be equal, so therefore anyone with a platform will eventually try to eat everything and push it through their platform - expect google to try and do everything on the web eventually because they consider the web to be "their" platform - just as Tesco would eventually do everything (produce alcohol, cleaning materials, insurance) by controlling the platform.
Its really, really dangerous, but people are stupid and lazy and think "oh its google, its safe" and create a little monopoly for the company. Quality and value for money was always driven by competition, without competition you will lose that process. Perhaps there should be laws concerning offering particular services detrimentally to the competition, forcing Tesco to offer competitors' services at the cash desk and so on with google...
I think it is a little scary how big Google are getting i.e. moving away from just being a search engine.
What I'm most concerned about is what will happen when the android project is released on handsets (The Google platform for mobile phones). It will be great IMO because it'll do everything I want (inc. everything on linux) but the thing that is slightly concerning is I can see a huge shift in the way people use their internet -
People apparently have to have a gmail account (I think i read that somewhere) but why wouldn't they want one, gmail will work out the box with the phone, as will google calendar, plug it in your computer and then you got all your bookmarks on your mobile browser (Possibly a dif. version of chrome??) and all of this will sink with your computer without plugging in the phone since your mail and calendar are all stored on Google server.
So i can just see a lot of people opting for Google's services if they manage to pull of the android project.
(On a side not - all of Google Chromes browser is open source, so firefox is more than welcome to steal bits of it and a nice lil race may occur between the two unless google made chrome to just point firefox in the right direction to do what google wanted)
What I'm most concerned about is what will happen when the android project is released on handsets (The Google platform for mobile phones). It will be great IMO because it'll do everything I want (inc. everything on linux) but the thing that is slightly concerning is I can see a huge shift in the way people use their internet -
People apparently have to have a gmail account (I think i read that somewhere) but why wouldn't they want one, gmail will work out the box with the phone, as will google calendar, plug it in your computer and then you got all your bookmarks on your mobile browser (Possibly a dif. version of chrome??) and all of this will sink with your computer without plugging in the phone since your mail and calendar are all stored on Google server.
So i can just see a lot of people opting for Google's services if they manage to pull of the android project.
(On a side not - all of Google Chromes browser is open source, so firefox is more than welcome to steal bits of it and a nice lil race may occur between the two unless google made chrome to just point firefox in the right direction to do what google wanted)
