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Firefox VS. Google Chrome
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07-25-2012, 02:47 PM,
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RE: Firefox VS. Google Chrome
(07-25-2012, 02:18 AM)Moneyman Wrote: The only reason I have not and will not use Google Chrome is because I have de-Googled! Literally you cannot escape from Google's hands, at least not before you totally leave all computers, phones, and tablets. You could choose to block all Google Ads and Google Analytic codes on many sites you visit with Adblock or something similar, and totally reject to use Google Custom Search used on some websites, yet it's always very well possible that some services that keeps your statistics would share them with Google. For example, when you clicked on an ad whose provider has some cooperations with Google, Google could still be immediately informed about your click. Not to mention you are probably already using many Google sponsored projects, many software hosted on Google code, utilizing some software/website that uses Google Maps, meeting a website that uses Google Translate to translate its content, a blog hosted on Blogger, a video from YouTube, an image from Picasa, a chart generated by Google Chart, a website using Google-hosted libraries (like jQuery) or Google-hosted web fonts... And hey, even Firefox is sending some data to Google, by default. Chromium is an open-sources project that is sponsored by Google. It's the underlying code base of Google Chrome, but it does not track your usages and reports them to Google (unless you strictly asked so), so you could try Chrome's features without installing Chrome: http://www.chromium.org/Home If you don't feel like building Chromium yourself, you may favor a third-party build, for instance, SRWare Iron: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
Gentoo Linux User (w/ fvwm) / Loyal Firefox User / Owner of a Stupid Old Computer - My PGP Public Key
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. -- Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), John Donn |
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