On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 08:38:12AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
> Has anyone tried out chrome for linux? 

I began using it about a month ago, and I now use it exclusively on
Linux (ubuntu at work and Fedora at home), except for when my job
requires using Firefox (e.g. testing web apps in supported browsers).
I downloaded from www.google.com/chrome in both cases, and have not
run into any problems whatsoever.  Flash works fine, and the only
features I miss from FF are the "paste URL in the main window to go to
a new site" and pressing '/' to start a search.

Aside from those very small issues, Chrome is way faster and way, way
more stable for everything I do, *on Linux*.  In particular, a lot of
the sites I use the most make heavy use of Javascript, and those crash
Firefox rather regularly... not so with Chrome, where they also
typically perform tremendously better.  I still mostly use FF on
Windows as I find it runs better there (than it does on Linux), and I
don't like Chrome's window decorations, which you can't change to
OS-specific ones (you can on Linux, not on Windows... annoying).

Despite being a privacy freak, I've given up on privacy on the
internet in general.  Your ISP  already logs everything you do, and
the government has access to it on demand.  Businesses are finding new
ways to track and communicate what you are doing on sites they
run/deliver to their partners who are willing to pay for the
information.  The war is already lost: privacy is dead.  

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