Actually chrome has no code from firefox as far as I am aware. It uses the webkit rendering engine which comes from KHTML/Safari and otherwise all relatively original code.
Google's motivations in the silent auto-updates are mainly security driven. For most users, the web browser is the primary attack surface on their system. Accordingly keeping it up to date is critical to keeping users systems secure. For the majority of users, requiring user confirmation for an update is pointless at best since they don't have the ability to determine if an update is worth installing and dangerous at worse since some users will defer or deny the update and will end up with an insecure browser. Sure it would be nice if they added an option to prompt for updates or something which could be changed but it's a low priority for Google. It's a feature which a very very small section of users want and which even fewer users would be able to use safely. Additionally there's a viable solution for such users, just run chromium. ____________________________ Sean O'Connor http://seanoc.com On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mark Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 12:21 -0300, Orion Vianna wrote: > > While it would be nice to have the manual update option, I'm happy I > > won't have to worry about old Crhome browsers rendering my sites badly. > > > > Jim Hartley wrote: > > > There's lots of stuff you are not allowed to modify, hack or otherwise > > > tinker, such as (Gasp! Shudder!) Windoze. I avoid proprietary code as > > > much as I can, but sometimes the tradeoff makes it worthwhile. > > > > > > But I really DO NOT LIKE automatic updates you can't turn off! I tend > > > to stick with older, working versions of software, autoupdates BREAK > > > things. I agree with you, I don't think I could accept that, either. > > > > > > Jim Hartley > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration > > Apr 7 - Nagios > > May 5 - Android > > It could well be that Chrome is a little less than polished, they know > that a fair number of people aren't going to like it, and they want to > make sure that you don't like the most upgraded version that they have. > Although they started with Firefox code, they did a lot of things to it > and some features work better than others. I tried it and went back to > Firefox, even though I get most of my features from Google. > -- > Robert Mark Wallace > 60 Delaware Road > Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 > Telephone: (845) 566-0586 > > Please note my new address and update your records > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration > Apr 7 - Nagios > May 5 - Android >
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