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    WhiteCrow Guest

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    Cos I work in IT, I've heard the hullabaloo about the new Chrome browser and thought it was worth taking a look.

    Very good it is too - although I'll avoid using it for any shopping transactions until it's a proper release.

    http://www.google.com/chrome/index.h...campaign=en-GB

    Oh and it supposedly had a "helpful feature" showing sites of web pages you've visited. So no more sneaky looking at porn sites ...

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    I've tried it briefly. It seems to have better Windows Media support than Firefox does, even in its third incarnation, but Chrome feels too lightweight for me to use it. Plus Google make their money off adverts so no handy ad blocking features in their browser.

    On the plus side it seemed zippy, it imports bookmarks, user names and passwords from Firefox so no more hunting for emails to remind you how to log into places, and the interface is about a zillion times less crappy than IE7's bizarre layout.

    Oh and "Incognito" will let you browse sites of mature interest without leaving traces all over your screen. Well, not on the inside anyway.
    Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?

    If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...

    #dammitbrent



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    WhiteCrow Guest

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lissa View Post
    Oh and "Incognito" will let you browse sites of mature interest without leaving traces all over your screen. Well, not on the inside anyway.
    Cheers Lisssa!

    You seem kind of quickly up to speed on that side. Honestly those pictures of that topless woman being whipped wearing PVC was put there by a virus ... honest.

    It is kind of nice, zippy and attractive, but whether the core of it is as safe as Firefox I dunno.

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    Looking through my recent history on Chrome (porn now removed), I can now see why I've been having so many nightmares this week ...

    Naftaly Frenkel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    The Gulag -- Communism's Penal Colonies Revisited
    Letters From Stalin's Russia
    mental_floss Blog » Gulags: Then and Now
    Siberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Gulag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Image:Soviet censorship with Stalin.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Great Purge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Censorship of images in the Soviet Union
    I'm going to have to start reading up on the care bears or something.

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    Is it because your subconscious is worrying that you might've been getting inaccurate information from Wikipedia? You should remind it of that research which says Wiki is as accurate as Britannica. Then you'll sleep more easily.

    I meanwhile have written a somewhat longer review of Chrome for my upcoming tech column. Tantalising.
    Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?

    If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...

    #dammitbrent



    The eleventh annual Brenty Four serial is another Planet Skaro exclusive. A new episode each day until Christmas in the Brenty Four-um.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WhiteCrowUK View Post
    Looking through my recent history on Chrome (porn now removed), I can now see why I've been having so many nightmares this week ...



    I'm going to have to start reading up on the care bears or something.
    So what was Stalinist Russian porn like?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lissa View Post
    I meanwhile have written a somewhat longer review of Chrome for my upcoming tech column. Tantalising.
    And you recon you don't have "the Right Stuff" to be considered a software tester proper!

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    One of the licence conditions for Chrome (which they may have removed by now) was that all contents posted using the Chrome browse belonged to Google.

    I wonder how their "Do no evil" moto is going for them?
    Assume you're going to Win
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