It was my impression that Chrome is part of a larger effort by Google to develop cloud computing based on Linux. I had heard, in fact, that Google was polishing it's own Linux distro, based on Ubuntu, but tying the user into their cloud services. The Google Linux distro was supposed to come out late in 2010, but don't set your watch by that.
Although Safari is Unix based, it is proprietary software and they might have had to buy a license to touch it. By comparison, they could download all the source code that they wanted for Firefox for free. In early editions of chrome that I tried, it behaved suspiciously like Firefox and one plug in or something that I downloaded for Firefox worked in Chrome. A Google Linux distro would finally push people like Lexmark into developing a good set of Linux drivers. The HP software for Linux works better than the stuff they have for Windows, probably because all they had to do was release a driver that CUPS could use, and not bundle the driver with a lot of free but not GPL photo and printing software that wasn't all that great in order to be sure the user would get value out of the printer. Sitting here at Ubuntu 9.10, it amazes me that anyone would use XP or Vista over this. My daughter's boyfriend just got a laptop with Windows seven in it and she says that it has a lot more features, but I have been using some of the same features in Ubuntu for years. I tried Kubuntu 9.10 last week and, although it downloaded a s--- load of bug fixes, it is still over engineered. I hear that Mark Shuttleworth both told them where it's at on KDE 4 and provided a lot of help to get it cleaned up. Mark I have no meaningful experience in Safari. I downloaded it once and looked at it and decided I wasn't motivated enough to learn and configure a new browser. On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 11:17 -0500, Sean O'Connor wrote: > Actually chrome has no code from firefox as far as I am aware. It > uses the webkit rendering engine which comes from KHTML/Safari and > otherwise all relatively original code. > > > Google's motivations in the silent auto-updates are mainly security > driven. For most users, the web browser is the primary attack surface > on their system. Accordingly keeping it up to date is critical to > keeping users systems secure. For the majority of users, requiring > user confirmation for an update is pointless at best since they don't > have the ability to determine if an update is worth installing and > dangerous at worse since some users will defer or deny the update and > will end up with an insecure browser. > > > Sure it would be nice if they added an option to prompt for updates or > something which could be changed but it's a low priority for Google. > It's a feature which a very very small section of users want and > which even fewer users would be able to use safely. Additionally > there's a viable solution for such users, just run chromium. > > ____________________________ > Sean O'Connor > http://seanoc.com > > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mark Wallace > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 12:21 -0300, Orion Vianna wrote: > > While it would be nice to have the manual update option, I'm > happy I > > won't have to worry about old Crhome browsers rendering my > sites badly. > > > > Jim Hartley wrote: > > > There's lots of stuff you are not allowed to modify, hack > or otherwise > > > tinker, such as (Gasp! Shudder!) Windoze. I avoid > proprietary code as > > > much as I can, but sometimes the tradeoff makes it > worthwhile. > > > > > > But I really DO NOT LIKE automatic updates you can't turn > off! I tend > > > to stick with older, working versions of software, > autoupdates BREAK > > > things. I agree with you, I don't think I could accept > that, either. > > > > > > Jim Hartley > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group > http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS > Auditorium > > Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration > > Apr 7 - Nagios > > May 5 - Android > > > It could well be that Chrome is a little less than polished, > they know > that a fair number of people aren't going to like it, and they > want to > make sure that you don't like the most upgraded version that > they have. > Although they started with Firefox code, they did a lot of > things to it > and some features work better than others. I tried it and > went back to > Firefox, even though I get most of my features from Google. > -- > Robert Mark Wallace > 60 Delaware Road > Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 > Telephone: (845) 566-0586 > > Please note my new address and update your records > > _______________________________________________ > > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group > http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS > Auditorium > Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration > Apr 7 - Nagios > May 5 - Android > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration > Apr 7 - Nagios > May 5 - Android -- Robert Mark Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Telephone: (845) 566-0586 Please note my new address and update your records _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration Apr 7 - Nagios May 5 - Android
