Google Chrome, the new Google web browser.

[Gridfan]

Read the comic to learn about it: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

And get it here: http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en

[Acushla]

*Sighs* no matter how good it is do I really need yet another browser ffs. Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE, MSE, now Goggle Crome? It would have to be mighty impressive.

[Ceryn]

All I can say about Chrime, I mean... Chrome... is...


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.


11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above licence.

As taken from the Chrome EULA..

Questionable?

[Dedojo]

I remember a simular agreement when geocities was taken over that caused me and a million other artists to pull all there artwork off the geocities websites. heh Oh so long ago....

[Gridfan]

That's for the services, not the software.

It's a EULA "safeguard" so people that use Google Chrome to post on Google Groups or Blogspot or whatever do not try to sue Google for caching/indexing information that you published.

Remember, your Google Mail is private and they'd never missuse that. I haven't checked but I assume a similar EULA clause exist in that EULA as well. (for situations where you email a public usenet/newsgroup which Google indexes)

They might want to reword or specify that stuff more clearly, a small panic is spreading due to this. Heh.

And what was that about Geocities? Isn't the whole point of Geocities to publicly display a webpage? So why was people upset that Geocites wanted you to grant them permission to do exactly that? or am I missing something here?

[Gridfan]

As for Google Chrome, it looks like a very good alternative to IE and new computer users.

It's still in beta and has a few quirks when typing text in textboxes. (text redraw/display issue while editing)

Personally I'm still sticking to Firefox 3 mostly due to the tools and so on.

In fact, one might look at Chrome as a Firefox Lite, with Firefox being the "big brother" of it.

[Dedojo]

When they where taken over, the new company, Yahoo I believe wrote the new agreement poorly. Legaly it claimed ownership of all creative properties hosted on the webpages. They later rewrote it but it was pretty much too late, the mass exodus had already happened.

[Lykeios]

Sticking with Opera. Trust google bout as far as I could throw a wet haddock wrapped in cement...

[Gridfan]

Seems I was right in that this was a "copy and paste" thing:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... ge-it.html

Google has now changed the wording.

Now, I wonder how long it takes until they fix that Java exploit that was discovered. (unlike Apple that took 2 months to fix it I think?)