Googles new free web browser

[#1]

I don't think I'll be signing up after reading Rogerloxton's post.

[#2]

It gets worse http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/

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11. Content licence from you     11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services. Image of HAL eye from 2001 movie with Chrome logo in eye Granting Google 'a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through' Chrome is coming it rich. Suppose Google does this to material you have posted that's not yours? No problem. It has a get-out-of-jail card signed by you in section 11.4 of the EULA:     11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above licence. But you may be posting material via Chrome to your employer's site and it owns the copyright of anything you create in work time. What then if Google adapts, modifies and distributes it? Your fan has brown stuff all over it but none of it sticks to Google.

[#3]

I baulked too at condition 11 in the EULA, but thought, let's have a look anyway!
Chrome doesn't run the BT Speedtester, nor the Plusnet version (wrong version of Flash installed, was the error). My internet bank's website didn't display correctly and neither did the BBC news website. After all the hype, I thought this sounded a brilliant concept. In practice, it appears to be a rushed, botched-job, released (escaped?) in a beta-version to steal Microsoft's thunder with IE8.
Chrome doesn't float my boat; Google has done itself no favours here. I for one am removing this software as of now!

[#4]

ooops http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10031250-83.html?tag=xlr8yourmac

[#5]

Is it alright if I stick with Firefox then

[#6]

Firefox takes some beating IMO 

[#7]

Quote from: adiewoo

ooops http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10031250-83.html?tag=xlr8yourmac

Did the carpet-bombing flaw ever get fixed in Safari?
Regarding the EULA, aren't most of Google's EULA's very similar? Wasn't there minor uproar about something else they launched a while back that pretty much had the same clauses in its license agreement?

[#8]

Apple patched the vulnerability with Safari v3.1.2, but the underlying software behind Chrome is based on older code, hence the vulnerability.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_vuln/

[#9]

If you dontr want to install it but would like to test it then try this thininstall
http://rapidshare.com/files/142400777/Portable_Chrome__0.2.151.0.rar
It doesnt require any install so it cant muck up your system you just run the file no complicated install or uninstall

[#10]

Seems Google don't quite want rights to everything.. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-license-agreement/ , though you never know.

[#11]

Bugs? Well on my machine the make chrome your default browser button doesn't seem to work, you press it and nothing happens! I have to say I like it. But I will wait for an update or two before deciding on a permanent change!

[#12]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/04/google_retracts_lousy_chrome_eula_terms/
They removed the silly EULA terms - apparently they just copy/pasted their standard EULA.
B.

[#13]

I read that and liked these comments

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The ruckus was caused by our old friends, the paralegal firm Cut 'n' Paste Inc. Their employment has now been terminated and a new contract arranged with Fink First, Cut 'n' Paste who have produced a revised section 11 reading: <snip> Thaddeus P Fink, founder, chairman and CEO of Fink First, Cut 'n Paste, said he had a one-time-only, special offer deal for cutting out Completely Redundant Arcane Prose (think acronymically) from EULAs, and was open for further business. ®

[#14]

Yes, made me smile too 

[#15]

It seems that if you want to make Chrome your default browser in Vista you need to start an instance in Admin mode so the button works.