Anyone using Google Chrome?

[evp5O]

Just wondering if any of you have switched to it.

[19pct]

they are still working on a Mac version if you try the pc version let me know how it is

[twentynout]

Yeah I use it from time to time. Ive had it since it came out several months back.

It's super fast, Has some neat features.

It doesn't have all of the doo-dads that the other browsers have, and that's why it's fast.

Safari, from apple is not bad either. Download both and play with them.

T

[copnot]

I've been tinkering with it since it was released.

Like others have said, it's lightweight and fast; however, too lightweight for my liking. By lightweight I mean I can't tweak certain things because there's no control for the tweak. For example, there's a great stealth browsing mode that doesn't keep track of where you've been. Unfortunately, you can't make that the default mode at startup. If you don't enter that mode and you start browsing, it shows it's a Google product, this default mode keeps track of everywhere you been. Deleting stuff from this mode is a major PIA.

Additionally, I have no idea if this thing is safe or not. With IE, including it's warts, you at least know it has problems and that one needs to keep it updated and to use one more separate anti-virus products, etc. Firefox has all those plug-ins available that shut down a lot of the junk. This one is simply too new yet.

That's about where I'm at with it.

[copnot]

From today's NY Times

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/adobes-flash-and-apples-safari-fail-a-privacy-test/

December 30, 2008, 6:29 pm
Adobe’s Flash and Apple’s Safari Fail a Privacy Test
By Brad Stone

In the new browser war, privacy is a crucial battleground.

Mozilla’s Firefox, Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari all compete to give users the most control over their online identities and the best protection from Web sites that use “cookies,” those unique identifiers that can track users online.

So how effective are the newest batch of browser privacy tools? Kate McKinley, a researcher at iSec Partners, a San Francisco security firm, sought to find out.

In a paper published Tuesday, Ms. McKinley found particular problems with Safari and concluded that none of the four major browsers extends its privacy protections to Adobe’s immensely popular Flash plug-in, which is used to display Web animations and video.

Apple’s Safari fared the worst of the browsers in Ms. McKinley’s tests. When used in “private browsing mode” on a Macintosh running OS X, Safari was “quirky,” Ms. McKinley wrote, accessing some of the cookies previously stored on her computer, but not others. When used on a machine running Windows XP, Safari’s private browsing mode was not private at all -– it accessed previously set cookies and did not delete any new ones.

Of course, relatively few people use Apple’s Safari on a PC running Microsoft Windows. The problem with Adobe’s Flash software is a bigger issue, since 99 percent of Web surfers use the software, which drops its own separate cookies on people’s computers.

Sites such as MySpace, Hulu.com, CrateandBarrel.com and Amazon.com all use Flash cookies to record some kind of information about their users.

Ms. McKinley found that this information cannot be deleted by average users in the browser privacy settings, should they wish to do so. “Flash elevates the interest of developers over the interest of the end user,” she said.

Emmy Huang, group product manager for the Adobe Flash Player, noted in an e-mail that there is a separate process for deleting Flash cookies, which is described in this somewhat arcane document. She conceded that this may not be clear to most Internet users.

“It is accurate to say that the privacy settings people make with regards to their browser activities are not immediately reflected in Flash Player,” Ms. Huang wrote. “Still, privacy choices people make for their browsers aren’t more difficult to do in Flash Player, and deleting cookies recorded by Flash Player isn’t a more difficult process than deleting browser cookies. However, it is a different process and people may not know it is available.”

She added that Adobe is working with the browser makers on combining privacy settings for the browser and Flash to make it easier for users to manage their settings.

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