Google Chrome

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:59 pm

trivial wrote:I'm deactivating my shotachan account. Better use firefox for that, huh.

Yeah, thanks for making me google this. Please tell me more about being a pedophile.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:10 pm

You're really into this, aren't you?

- VANNED

trivial · Post by **trivial** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:40 am

Guilty knowledge as carn(iv)al action? How convivial!

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:40 am

trivial wrote:Guilty knowledge as carn(iv)al action? How convivial!

Sodomy laws should have stayed in your country.

Etrian · Post by **Etrian** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:46 am

Elixir wrote:
trivial wrote:Guilty knowledge as carn(iv)al action? How convivial!
Sodomy laws should have stayed in your country.

Oh, burn

So google chrome.. it's too "new" for my liking. Firefox is waaaay too developed at the moment, and has a bunch of support from third party developers (addons etc) to make me switch. But it was neat to try out.. at this rate Google will end up trying to make an operating system. It seems like they want to take over everything nowadays.

But hey, I would try that out too.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:57 am

Etrian wrote:Firefox is waaaay too developed at the moment, and has a bunch of support from third party developers (addons etc) to make me switch. But it was neat to try out.. at this rate Google will end up trying to make an operating system.

Haha, but your issue with Chrome is the exact issue an OS from them would have. It would be too new and people would be unfamiliar with it. Most people have the "if it's not broken, don't fix it" attitude, or they just don't like change. Considering people have been using XP/Linux for years, most just won't bother.

An operating system would be such a huge project for them though. Honestly, I don't think they're going to bother with something like that.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:08 am

What's the huge deal about that? It isn't too rare that a lone coder or a small team will write all, or the bulk of, an operating system.

• Ken Thompson wrote UNIX
• Andrew Tanenbaum wrote MINIX
• a three-men team wrote Coherent
• Ville Mikael Turjanmaa wrote MenuetOS
• Gary Kildall wrote CP/M
• Tim Paterson wrote MS-DOS
• Doug Comer wrote XINU
• Robert Szeleney wrote SkyOS
• Ken Sakamura wrote TRON
• Andy McLaughlin wrote Visopsys OS

(most of these examples taken from here)

trivial · Post by **trivial** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:52 am

Erinu wrote:Sodomy laws should have stayed in your country.

That would have been funny if these hadn't been different in every state, and if I could possibly have been conceived after they'd been taken off the books.

Did Chrome show you a page about cunnilingus or something when you fired it up? You can adjust your preferences.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:21 pm

trivial wrote:That would have been funny if these hadn't been different in every state, and if I could possibly have been conceived after they'd been taken off the books.

And unlike Google Chrome, sodomy laws are beneficial to both parties. It would actually be more funny if you understood what I meant by that instead of throwing dumb assumptions around.

trivial wrote:Did Chrome show you a page about cunnilingus or something when you fired it up? You can adjust your preferences.

We're getting off topic now. You seem to be equipped in the arts of knowing all about Japanese young boy porn though, so let's get back on track. Just how long have you been a pedophile?

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:59 pm

Erinu · Post by **Erinu** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:53 pm

trivial wrote:
Erinu wrote:Sodomy laws should have stayed in your country.
That would have been funny if these hadn't been different in every state, and if I could possibly have been conceived after they'd been taken off the books.

Did Chrome show you a page about cunnilingus or something when you fired it up? You can adjust your preferences.

Hey.. do me a favor, okie? Keep me out of your pissing contests. I don't have time for this..

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:03 pm

IE 6 and some common sense > whatever new browser is hot at the moment.

honorless · Post by **honorless** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:22 am

A word of warning; if you installed the normal version of Chrome, you also installed Google Update.

Google Update creates a task for itself that runs whenever your computer is idle, regardless of the last time you have opened Chrome. It also sets itself up as a service that runs on startup.

It will not be removed (or even stop running) if you uninstall Chrome, even if you do not have any other Google software on your PC. Lastly, if Chrome is the only Google product you have ever installed, Google Update won't show up in Control Panel.
(I guess that doesn't matter since the official uninstallation doesn't seem to be that effective anyway.)

If you care, some uninstallation instructions. (I nuked a few more registry keys than he did, but the only thing I had installed from Google was Chrome.)

Automatic download and installation of updates is an annoyance, but it was in the EULA so mea culpa for not reading it closely. The updating program remaining after uninstallation (and installing itself even if the Chrome installation fails) is inexcusable and I wish I'd looked that kind of shit up before trying Chrome out.

Mea culpa again, I guess.

edit: Apparently there are builds out there that don't include Google Update; definitely look for those if you want to try Chrome.

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:28 am

Sounds like a pretty cumbersome way to do it.

I did it by pressing windows+R, typing in "msconfig", going to the autorun tab, removing the tick at "GoogleUpdate", and pressing OK.

honorless · Post by **honorless** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:32 am

Well, there's a difference between what you and he did—you disabled it. The on-startup part anyway; the task is still there. Those instructions are for removing it.

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:36 am

Well, in my case it still physically exists on my hard drive (taking up 1.5MB), but it's no big deal. :)

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:40 am

Stormwatch wrote:What's the huge deal about that? It isn't too rare that a lone coder or a small team will write all, or the bulk of, an operating system.

• Ken Thompson wrote UNIX
• Andrew Tanenbaum wrote MINIX
• a three-men team wrote Coherent
• Ville Mikael Turjanmaa wrote MenuetOS
• Gary Kildall wrote CP/M
• Tim Paterson wrote MS-DOS
• Doug Comer wrote XINU
• Robert Szeleney wrote SkyOS
• Ken Sakamura wrote TRON
• Andy McLaughlin wrote Visopsys OS

(most of these examples taken from here)

Either you're joking or you just have no idea how this sort of thing works...

honorless · Post by **honorless** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:43 am

moozooh wrote:Well, in my case it still physically exists on my hard drive (taking up 1.5MB), but it's no big deal.

Yeah, I imagine a lot of people won't care, especially if they've still got Google software installed. I wouldn't have even known Google Update was there had I not decided to check Task Manager, so it's not like it was bogging my computer down.

I'm just posting for the fellow neurotics who don't like random processes running on their computers "whenever there's idle time", especially when the process is from a program that I've explicitly uninstalled.

Violent Ken · Post by **Violent Ken** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:26 am

Google Chrome is Big Browser!

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:19 pm

i followed ken's arrow into the vastness of space

disappointing

Erinu: Showing up to overreact to a single post in a random thread will surely take the fun out of griefing you

p.s. Google Chrome still sucks, doesn't it?

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:14 am

Violent Ken wrote:

The block was dead yo, so I continued to A1A DETROIT AVENUE.

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lgb · Post by **lgb** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:25 pm

bloodf, does Chrome cause any problems with the forum? Seems to take up a little less memory than Firefox, depending on what you do with Chrome. The "individual tabs are their own processes" is an amazing feature.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:40 pm

lgb wrote:The "individual tabs are their own processes" is an amazing feature.

What's so great about it? Oh look at me I'm loading up sites with broken scripts in them!

Erinu · Post by **Erinu** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:30 am

Ed Oscuro wrote:i followed ken's arrow into the vastness of space

disappointing

Erinu: Showing up to overreact to a single post in a random thread will surely take the fun out of griefing you

p.s. Google Chrome still sucks, doesn't it?

Hey, just because I haven't been all that active.. you know in your heart that it doesn't give you any right to troll people or 'grief' them. Give me a break...

trivial · Post by **trivial** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:02 pm

Sorry. Post more. I have this theory that with the advent of mass media, sport became a storehouse of amusing last names. Your thoughts?