-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:24:23 -0400 "B. Alexander" <xxx> wrote:
> I tried chrome once, and really wasn't impressed with it. First of > all, it didn't play nicely with my kde4 desktop, had its own > fisher-price looking borders Those can be easily fixed if you're under a GTK environment. It steals from GTK2 pretty nicely except for the tabs, which I don't mind. > I also wonder how much of my browsing experience that google is > caching and phoning home. I know it sounds odd, but /none/. The whole scariness of "omg it sends everything you type to google!!!!11" is a /crock of steam/. The logic is as follows: 1. User starts typing into the Unibox 2. if it looks like a URL, check if the local history has it. If so, return those. 3. when no more results are available from the local history, query the URI against the search provider given in the preferences* 4. if it looks like a URL (that is, beginning with a URI scheme that we understand), go there. Otherwise, return the search page of the search provider with the entry as the query. > I know I use gmail, though I have been reconsidering that as > well...Since it has been almost painfully slow the past month or so... Do you use the web interface or a POP3/IMAP interface? The web interface is painfully slow, yes, and most of the time I keep it together with some very carefully crafted userscripts. As someone who's a bit of a security freak - -- Morgan Gangwere "We have forgotten the light at the end of the tunnel. It is out for maintenance" * MS FUD of the year: They claim that when you use Chrome, everything is by default sent to google. under Windows, however, Chrome tries to pick up the search provider that is "default" in the default browser's settings. On windows most of the time, this happens to be IE, which therefore means Bing. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJMhmJOAAoJEEURiCSotvJD0DUP+gLEnJx/II/0q+ehGqXoP5YY h1YrcEapENw1QujoJ85VD2IciAbqFYaGjdIfvGUHVejxoS+cce+NcSYpigM5J3+g uNeaepuvNKE6PnP4a9Sd3CKoKhsSyVgyjBjb4PA634ZIwo1Z7u9IgNVACHR5hzbJ vBV18jB33KeeSt6Us4/GyRI052+aYLe4kjv7/NJMKBK7rTXAltvJUPsvwfe1Vt1p Zf/afY+ipn1cKLqqMs8xMpYAV3F/0w35OqFkfZZDIDnn0STbPuZC959xCvdbVHaY mH3dP6VMm+0GlndGOAUyRFxEuBOBqfDv+4AXdKsyNsY84UPPEHPAO9r+t0o5kXEw ey7oI4EMOLEUfsHiUm3OZvAWa2YO9tRtqap4rlcWEPiBdlXs35/LSQSa64QzR46W PsMJn0xY1WJFxTldup0xcO62wpvBC79xHWh4X5xATEJryPsQ8Wk2daBppEwuSch1 J1A9GpfJehLSWjp3UU5mc4qGhi5Xe864M5Ak8/PGPgaANadAF2Ys9VFx7mPgEcB6 FgMiTuylX61FnzB7skvf2U9FwkLX7bCs+e+Z4FWAUpjMJo9hw12Lckw8M7HqvauH 4SKauHnRHuUfjbYWGMAuGR5f+kNYiHoo3VgH20CHIXBLYZ2NiYnf85dggVuXK2is zf+YVFM6LPTPvzg7BXCW =YfiA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----