Comments on: why you shouldn’t use google chrome

By: Not corporate friendly

Not corporate friendly — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:31:04 +0000

You should also consider how Google “services” (all that cross Chrome, what you send using Gmail…) affect intellectual property (IP) and patents: 1st EULA was getting all IP that was passed through their “services”! This is what seemed so abusive.

Now, they “only” automagically get a licence to use this IP with no fee!

But what does it means? Consider that you have a patent infrigement going to court… and that your opponent come with the evidence that this IP has gone through a Google “service”: They will say you IP have no more value as you already gave a free licence to use it to googe!

And this kind of self-headshot in your business could come from your own data retention policy (as it includes e-mails) revealed to your opponent defense!

So the conclusion is that if you use Chrome (or any Google “service”) at work, you probably infrige your work contract!

By: Porch Monkey

Porch Monkey — Fri, 13 May 2011 04:06:39 +0000

I’m not using Chrome because they support Homosexuals.

By: Bis developer

Bis developer — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:58:43 +0000

yes i tried google chrome, it good and faster compared with other search engines but i feel comfortable with firefox.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:10:32 +0000

I just stumbled upon this article while looking for a good listing of reasons to avoid IE that is more eloquent than I’d throw together. Even though this article wasn’t what I was looking for, it intrigued me.

Anyway, I just wanted to reply to Srividya’s comment about javascript. I don’t know where there comes from. Chrome not only supports javascript, but has a new javascript engine that is supposed to give javascript improved performance. It definitely supported it at all of the sites that I visited.

By: Colenzo

Colenzo — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:13:13 +0000

Opera is free at the moment as far as I know, I only recently switched to Firefox. I like them both, I think the FF security options and add-ons are slightly better.

I remember the outcry last year, the original unamended EULA basically just said “All Your Base Are Belong To Us”.

“11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which 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 license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.” (From the old one)

“Publicly Perform”? It would be weird walking down Rundle Mall and hearing the Google Singers performing your blog posts as madrigals.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:55:41 +0000

Ah yes, Opera, I used to use (and like) that but they changed the licensing to something non-free a long time ago. Is it free these days?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:54:54 +0000

KO – yeah, clause 4 plus the IMPORTANT NOTE at the start seem to combine to give Apple the right to report you for copyright infringement. Again, not a good thing to be agreeing to.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:53:01 +0000

Andy, the amended version is what I am considering above. Basically Google’s response to criticisms of the EULA have been to inadequately amend it and to assure everyone that it has the best of intentions. My point was that you should not have to rely on Google’s goodwill – they should not have those rights in the first place.

I do not agree with their assertion that the wording makes it clear that they are only filtering things they provide – I think it makes it clear that they theoretically have the right to filter (flag, etc) anything you access USING their products.

By: Andy Dustman

Andy Dustman — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:37:53 +0000

This article is about seven months too late.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/09/google-on-chrome-eula-controversy-our-bad-well-change-it.ars

By: Srividya

Srividya — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:04:08 +0000

Google chrome is a nice web browser but it is not as powerful as opera or firefox web browsers. There are many disadvantages of chrome that I can say is that it does not support javascripts.
Now a days,many sites are enabled with javascripts so it seems very odd in Chrome web browser .

So, its just a web browser for persons who are new to internet. But for experienced persons Chrome is not the best option. Firefox or Opera is the Best solution of their case.