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Google Chrome – Caveat Emptor

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So, you probably heard about Google‘s new Web BrowserGoogle Chrome“. Who wouldn’t? Its all over the Internet. Most of you perhaps downlaoded and tried it. I did. Honestly, I didn’t like it one bit. I hate it mainly for its Interface :P (Yeah, I understand its still under developement)

Sure it got wonderful reviews, claiming it was way faster than all other browsers. But heres the catch, It’s Terms Of Service. Here are a few Excerpts you may want to read before using Chrome :o

11. Content license from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which 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 license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license 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.

12. Software updates

12.1 The Software which you use may automatically download and install updates from time to time from Google. These updates are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the Services and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new software modules and completely new versions. You agree to receive such updates (and permit Google to deliver these to you) as part of your use of the Services.

17. Advertisements

17.1 Some of the Services are supported by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and promotions. These advertisements may be targeted to the content of information stored on the Services, queries made through the Services or other information.

17.2 The manner, mode and extent of advertising by Google on the Services are subject to change without specific notice to you.

17.3 In consideration for Google granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that Google may place such advertising on the Services.

Full Text of the Terms Of Service
You Decide

EDIT: I AM TOLD THEY FIXED THIS ISSUE

If you still want to download Google Chrome, Download it here

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Mozilla announces Ubiquity

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Mozilla recently announced “Ubiquity” and it turned up on all Social Bookmarking Site. So I thought I’d Give it a try. I downloaded the Ubiquity 0.1 firefox extension and Installed it.

The default command to open ubiquity is ctrl+spacebar. On opening ubiquity, a small greyish box appears at the top-left corner of your browser. This is where you enter commands. Somewhat feels like the linux command line :D . Ubiquity isn’t fully supported on linux yet, so I was on Vista while trying this.

To Search a word/phrase on a search engine, just select the part and hit ctrl+spacebar, and top few results will appear in the Ubiquity box itself. You can also search wikipedia by selecting wikipedia “search term” or check weather for your city.

Theres tons of commands, like email (uses your gmail account)

email (message) (to contact)

Submit to digg.com

digg

Set your twitter status

twitter (message)

Checkout these links to learn more commands:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1_User_Tutorial

And this if you’ve already installed Ubiquity:
chrome://ubiquity/content/cmdlist.html

Install Ubiquity 0.1

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Sooooo… I helped set a World Record!

So Firefox Download Day ended and there were over 8 million downloads and I was one of them :D
Like I said I would, I only downloaded the windows version. Looked more like an unintended DDoS when the clock struck 10:30 PM here in India. So…

Download Day Certificate

Get your own certificate here.

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Firefox Download Day Today

So… its Firefox’s Download Day already

Download Day
(Adblock Blocks this so heres the url: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/firefox3)

When Ubuntu Hardy Heron released with its default browser as Firefox3 (pre/rc version), I thought it sucked thanks to tons of unsupported extensions/add-ons (and no good looking themes :-P ) and stuck to Firefox 2. But a couple of weeks back I tried out Firefox 3, Well Swiftfox (an optimized build of Mozilla Firefox for Linux) actually and was amazed by the progress it had made. All of the extensions I used (except one) were now supported and it was running faster than ever.

Since it isn’t clear if getting Firefox3 through your Linux Distro‘s package manager would count in their Record Attempt, I’ll just download the windows version :-D

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