{"id":650,"date":"2008-09-03T18:41:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T02:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=650"},"modified":"2009-04-04T21:21:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T04:21:05","slug":"google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2008\/09\/03\/google-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being the Google nerd that I am (although I will admit that I have finally taken them off their pedestal and realized that just having a motto of not being evil doesn’t stop you from… actually doing evil things) I downloaded Google Chrome<\/a>, their new browser.<\/p>\n

It’s slick, I’ll give you that, but I won’t be switching from Firefox anytime soon. There are some interesting features:<\/p>\n

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  1. Homepage with your most-visited sites.<\/strong> I actually dislike this idea very much. Seriously, I don’t need everyone who opens my browser to know that I am a GMail addict and check it frequently. Sites that I need to visit, I’ll visit–otherwise, this is rather useless.<\/li>\n
  2. No extensions.<\/strong> Yet. I’ve been using Adblock (and no NoScript) for so long that it’s weird to see ads on webpages. I think<\/em> that since it’s a open-source application, this kind of extendable functionality is just around the bend.<\/li>\n
  3. Tab control.<\/strong> Reorder your tabs. Drag a tab into a new window. Drag them between windows. Remember those days when tabbed browsing was a new idea?<\/li>\n
  4. New download manager!<\/strong> I like it better than Firefox’s–it stays in a “status bar”, but you can call up a full (and searchable) list of downloads if you like.<\/li>\n
  5. Best feature for last: Incognito mode.<\/strong> Basically, any browsing you do while in this mode leaves no traces on your computer. It’s intended to rival IE 8’s “Privacy Mode,” I think. Somehow, though, I doubt Microsoft could get away with this little gem:
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    You’ve gone incognito.<\/strong> […] Going incognito doesn’t affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software. Be wary of:
    \n[…]<\/p>\n

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    • Malicious software that tracks your keystrokes in exchange for free smileys<\/li>\n
    • Surveillance by secret agents<\/li>\n
    • People standing behind you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      Cute, Google. Cute.<\/p>\n

      (Every time I hear “incognito”, I think of that movie I watched in French class. Yes, sad, isn’t it?)\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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