Yeah, It was obvious that sooner or later, I’d come to speak about the attempt from Google to do a browser. Actually, I just tried Chrome. And after a short time of use, I know that this browser is not yet for me: ok it’s fast. But, it has too many lacks. Even if it could be skinned easily by replacing a dll file, it doesn’t support extensions, and has many missing features. I found a related google project, but the code is hosted there. If you want to compile it yourself, here are instructions.
Finally there are two bills on the subject, one by Lennart Regebro, and the other from “the independent”.
Note: for those who want to change the theme, just rename the file default.dll. I saw a theme changer on a forum, but it seems to be done in vb6, so you’d better get away from it if you don’t want to screw your Chrome up.
#1 by zin at September 11th, 2008
mon ptit boris, j’en profite pour te renseigner plus avant sur un point auquel tu n’a sans doute pas prété plus d’attention que ca concernant Chrome, et j’espere que des lecteurs s’en rendront compte assez rapidement : la license de Chrome autorise grosso merdo google a utiliser toutes les données qui passent par son navigateur
je sais plus exactement ou c’est, mais j’te passerais les textes de la license des que j’aurais retrouvé. Si on combine avec le nombre impressionant de connexion faites a des serveurs google (et de transfert de données, ca va de soit), on pourrais bien tenir la le plus impressionant spyware sous forme de navigateur jamais crée.
bref, restez sceptiques les amis, open source, certes, mais avec des “surprises”.