On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 19:30 -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > On a new install, I was using firefox for a while. I installed > chromium. > > At no point did chrome ask if I wanted to import firefox history, but > nevertheless, it autocompletes urls based on things I've visited in > firefox. (And definitely not suggestions from google, the completions > include localhost:port combos.) > > I'm not particularly paranoid, but I think this is a security > expectation violation. I do not expect two browsers to be sharing > anything. At least part of the reason I'm installing two > separate browsers is because I want them to be separate.
This does seem odd. I agree with what you're saying, if for no other reason installing two different browsers on Windows, MacOS, or most GNU/Linux distributions gives you two different configurations with two different histories. -- Shawn K. Quinn <[email protected]>
