Atheist Chaplain wrote:

Yes, I started using it the other day. It is, as promised, quick and
nimble. I used it on the WinXP machine to verify changes to the SI
(uploaded from a Mac).

I found, while storing photos from the web, that it would always direct
them to the set download folder instead of the last selected folder.

Images on photo pages (say PBase) seem render a little dull compared to
Firefox or Safari.

Every hour or so it goes into a mad thrashing of the hard disk
(indexing?). This IO bounds the machine into laggardness...

The inversion of the tabs paradigm is simply perfect (and that each is a
separate process a needed evolution of tabbed / windowed browsing. I
have had to kill Firefox (WinXP) and Safari (Max OS X) on more than a
few occasions.

I think Chrome is a very promising browser. May kill off Opera, will
likely dent Firefox, but I'm not sure it will be adopted by the legions
of the indifferent (or even content) who use IE.

11. Content licence from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in
Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By
submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual,
irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to
reproduce,
adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and
distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the
Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to
display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain
Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

Granting Google 'a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and
non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish,
publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you
submit, post or display on or through' Chrome is coming it rich.

I do hope that this was boilerplate running wild. It has been reported
on blogs here and there as an issue. Google would do well to clarify
the issue as well as come out with proper terms for the browser. (It
may also be wrt the open source side of the project.)

It may be irrelevant. If I post an image to Pbase using Chrome, then it
does not pass through the greasy fingers of Google (unless there's
something under the hood we don't know about).

But, if one uses any browser to post content to a google run blog (say,
xyz.blogspot.com) then that clause applies. That's how I read it, anyway.

Netscape - was pretty good in its day
MS IE - burned me
Firefox - been with it from the beginning, and I like it.
Opera - too sparse when I used it. Don't remember specifically why I
swore off of it.
Safari - strange behaviour and freeze ups. Can't copy the text of a
link. (Can only copy the hidden link).

Chrome looks to be the next browser for me.

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