Google Chrome for Linux

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 10:03 PM UTC

pyre wrote: post #36

alec wrote: post #9

Stores passwords in plain text on disk: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25404&#38... I noticed that detail when I was trying out Chromium a while back, and it still hasn't been fixed. It seems like a simple but basic security feature. I don't know what else isn't done yet, but it does make me worry. No guarantees that Firefox isn't doing similar things I'd object to, but I don't know about them, so…

How about just not using the browser to store you passwords?

Post by andreyf » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 10:08 PM UTC

bugs wrote: post #26

rufugee wrote: post #8

Great...looks slick and runs fast...but with comments like this ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/ ), how can I trust it?

Obviously you can't because you are doing something you think/know you aren't supposed to be doing. In all reality however google is no more evil than telephone companies that allow the government to place wire taps on lines or datacenters allowing the government to take the private server your website is on.

Post by wmf » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 10:16 PM UTC

sjs wrote: post #41

kylemathews wrote: post #35

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For the past ~2 months or so, Linux Chrome has worked really well with flash -- as good or better than Firefox. They seem to be running a windows version of flash -- or at least the few times flash has run into an endless loop and I have to kill it via top, the process name is "exe". Update: Flash still doesn't work perfectly -- as my trip to scribd just proved. For times like this, I just reopen the page in Firefox.

That explains a lot! I wondered how Chrome OS got the Linux build of Flash working without X11. I thought they might have a thin X11 lib in their window manager, but I guess they shoe-horned the Windows build into the Linux version of Chrome. Crafty.

Post by blasdel » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 10:23 PM UTC

sjs wrote: post #41

kylemathews wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the past ~2 months or so, Linux Chrome has worked really well with flash -- as good or better than Firefox. They seem to be running a windows version of flash -- or at least the few times flash has run into an endless loop and I have to kill it via top, the process name is "exe". Update: Flash still doesn't work perfectly -- as my trip to scribd just proved. For times like this, I just reopen the page in Firefox.

That explains a lot! I wondered how Chrome OS got the Linux build of Flash working without X11. I thought they might have a thin X11 lib in their window manager, but I guess they shoe-horned the Windows build into the Linux version of Chrome. Crafty.

Post by steveklabnik » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 11:08 PM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #59

camccann wrote: post #57

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Following evil laws is evil. Legality and morality are orthogonal, not isomorphic, concepts.

Morality and law are not equivalent or coterminous for sure, but I'd hardly say they are orthogonal. Do you really think they are completely void of interdependency?