Comments on: Microsoft Might Sabotage Google’s Big Announcement Using Shills http://techrights.org/2008/09/03/sabotage-google-using-shills/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael http://techrights.org/2008/09/03/sabotage-google-using-shills/comment-page-1/#comment-21676 Michael Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:04:00 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/09/03/sabotage-google-using-shills/#comment-21676 To be honest, Chrome *is* a little light on. However, you get the source-code with it. How many initial release beta browsers came with source? Still - it appeared stable when I tried it for about an hour yesterday, AND it used a fraction of the resources of Firefox - about 30% of the memory. Font overriding and advert and flash blocking are real usability requirements that I would personally require before ditching firefox, although I can't see google blocking their own adverts in their own browser? (although I would drop firefox in a jiffy if they did those 3 simple things - no doubt some hacker will feel the same way and do it, even if I can't be arsed myself). To be honest, Chrome *is* a little light on. However, you get the source-code with it. How many initial release beta browsers came with source?

Still – it appeared stable when I tried it for about an hour yesterday, AND it used a fraction of the resources of Firefox – about 30% of the memory.

Font overriding and advert and flash blocking are real usability requirements that I would personally require before ditching firefox, although I can’t see google blocking their own adverts in their own browser? (although I would drop firefox in a jiffy if they did those 3 simple things – no doubt some hacker will feel the same way and do it, even if I can’t be arsed myself).

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