RE: Google Chrome

2008-09-05 Thread jef moskot
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I must have missed something, how would running the Chrome browser collect our valuable data? What other purpose would Google have for creating this software? Everything Google does is attempt to collect more data, whether it's collecting the

RE: Google Chrome

2008-09-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
our valuable data? What other purpose would Google have for creating this software? Everything Google does is attempt to collect more data, whether it's collecting the world's email or convincing corporations, universities, private citizens, and everyone else that storing all their documents

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/ Kris P.S. This thread is off-topic for freebsd-questions, redirecting to chat. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As for google collecting private data, this browser apparently does no more of that than other existing browsers, according to: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/ of course. they just start.. just wait a bit ___ freebsd

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA said: Hello, In Google Chrome System requirements (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95411to pic

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Huff
John Nielsen writes: It won't be trivial to port. Last night I got as far as installing the recommended versions of the dependencies (including nspr and nss a version ahead of what's currently in ports). The chromium build script assumes the existence of /proc and /bin/bash. I stopped

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 05 September 2008, Robert Huff wrote: John Nielsen writes: It won't be trivial to port. Last night I got as far as installing the recommended versions of the dependencies (including nspr and nss a version ahead of what's currently in ports). The chromium build script assumes

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-05 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, John Nielsen wrote: I'd be glad to, but I'm afraid I do not have the skills for that... :-( It won't be trivial to port. Last night I got as far as installing the Until it get's ported run it under wine!:

RE: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RW Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 5:22 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:47:34 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread Fred C
On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:21 PM, RW wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:47:34 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For most people that's already happened, except that it's Adobe-Flash WWW. Google's approach of open-source software, and open-extensions, leading to new standards, sounds

RE: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred C Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:21 PM To: RW Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:21 PM, RW wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:47:34 +0200

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread Fred C
On Sep 3, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred C Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:21 PM To: RW Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:21 PM

RE: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred C Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:42 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: Google Chrome On Sep 3, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote

RE: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread jef moskot
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Seriously, what Google is doing is exactly like what ATT did when they sent out source of the early UNIX to all those colleges and universities, so many years ago. This isn't about creating software, it's about collecting our data. I don't

RE: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
else would you find something? I think I'm missing something here in this argument. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of jef moskot Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:32 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Google Chrome

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread Gerard
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:26:46 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I must have missed something, how would running the Chrome browser collect our valuable data? Obviously, keying in data into a search engine to find things is giving the search engine data on what people

RE: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:15 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:26:46 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread RW
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:16:08 -0800 Peter Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Safari is based on KDE's Konquerer (which already runs on FreeBSD), so with a FreeBSD version of Chrome, you would essentially have Konquerer ported to Apple, ported to Microsoft, ported to Linux, ported back to

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Ivan Voras
RW wrote: On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:16:08 -0800 Peter Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Safari is based on KDE's Konquerer (which already runs on FreeBSD), so with a FreeBSD version of Chrome, you would essentially have Konquerer ported to Apple, ported to Microsoft, ported to Linux,

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think it would be in beta for decades :) There's just so much thing they said they'll do that would be very complicated to implement - their multiprocessing model instead of multithreading for example. To me it looks like they will soon find out that there's a reason todays browsers behave like

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Gerard
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:55:39 +0200 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I think it would be in beta for decades :) There's just so much thing they said they'll do that would be very complicated to implement - their multiprocessing model instead of multithreading for example. To me it

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread RW
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:59:28 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyway what a point of using google software having other alternatives. do you really like to everything be controlled by one company? google mail, google news, google browser, even google documents.

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:13:35PM +0100, RW wrote: For most people that's already happened, except that it's Adobe-Flash WWW. Google's approach of open-source software, and open-extensions, leading to new standards, sounds a lot better to me. What about this?

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread RW
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:39:01 -0500 David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:13:35PM +0100, RW wrote: For most people that's already happened, except that it's Adobe-Flash WWW. Google's approach of open-source software, and open-extensions, leading to new standards,

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Edwin L. Culp
Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On 2008-09-02, Vlad GURDIGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA said: Hello, In Google Chrome System requirements (http://www.google.com/support

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Gerard
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:03:51 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:39:01 -0500 David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:13:35PM +0100, RW wrote: For most people that's already happened, except that it's Adobe-Flash WWW. Google's approach

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
For most people that's already happened, except that it's Adobe-Flash WWW. Google's approach of open-source software, and open-extensions, leading to new standards, sounds a lot better to me. except it leads to google-everything. not even a bit better than microsoft-everything

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Christopher Arnold
Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On 2008-09-02, Vlad GURDIGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA said: Hello, In Google Chrome System requirements (http://www.google.com/support

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread RW
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:47:34 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For most people that's already happened, except that it's Adobe-Flash WWW. Google's approach of open-source software, and open-extensions, leading to new standards, sounds a lot better to me. except it

Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Vlad GURDIGA
Hello, In Google Chrome System requirements (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95411topic=14660) they say that a Linux version is going to appear. And in the Download and install help article (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95346query=open

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA said: Hello, In Google Chrome System requirements (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95411to pic=14660) they say that a Linux version is going to appear. And in the Download and install help article (http://www.google.com

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Vlad GURDIGA
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA said: Hello, In Google Chrome System requirements (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95411to pic=14660) they say that a Linux version is going to appear

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-09-02, Vlad GURDIGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA said: Hello, In Google Chrome System requirements (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95411to pic

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Peter Giessel
On Tuesday, September 02, 2008, at 12:38PM, Vlad GURDIGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, In Google Chrome System requirements (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95411topic=14660) they say that a Linux version is going to appear. And in the Download and install help