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Why do people use Google Chrome?
Tatsujin:
I am considering Chrome from Google at the moment. My friend said I should try it out now. My question falls on their privacy statement - do they keep track of what you do without your notice? Like, using Google pretty much save history there and they can pull it out anytime. I'm just a little confused on that part and I'd like to be corrected. Thanks.
Freedom Kira:
Yay for necro. =P
Even if they do, what the heck are they gonna do with every one of their users' browsing history? Seriously? That's a lot of wasted disk space IMO.
If it really is sent to Google, I would expect that they modify the data in such a way that it's actually useful; for instance, for indexing purposes.
vuzedome:
I'd rather have Google keeping my history than my ISP.
Meomix:
Used google chrome because firefox was bloated, switched back to firefox when they updated their html code and supported .APNG
rostheferret:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on September 05, 2011, 11:31:07 PM ---My question falls on their privacy statement - do they keep track of what you do without your notice? Like, using Google pretty much save history there and they can pull it out anytime.
--- End quote ---
From my understanding they do, but its used so as to better target ads. A lot of ad companies do it; they take a look at your browsing history and process it through some sort of algorithm to try to tailor ads that better suit you. But it isn't particularly good at it.
I pretty much skipped FF. I used to run an old version of Opera for years - V4 or V5 or something - finding the newer ones more resource intensive for pretty much no benefit. I tried FF once but found it tended to bloat like crazy after an hour or so, a problem admittedly still prevalent in the version of Opera I was using only far worse. I made the switch to Chrome back when it was in beta when I was playing a browser based online game where refresh speed is important, finding it took about half the time to load a page, and I've been using it since. It's never bloated on me, rarely hangs up and has maybe crashed half a dozen times since I started using it. It depends what you're after. It consumes more RAM and doesn't have the same amount of extensions support but in terms of stability, I don't think theres better imo (though I have heard FF has done a lot of work to fixing their memory leaks so has improved vastly, so if you're already used to FF I don't think there would be much in it beyond simply getting used to a new interface).
Oh, and Chromes superbar <3 How did I live without this baby...
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