For those with privacy concerns, Iron is a fork of Chromium that targets privacy and security.<p>Download link: <a href="http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php</a><p>Comparison with Chrome: <a href="http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron...</a>
Stores passwords in plain text on disk: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25404&q=password&colspec=ID%20Stars%20Pri%20Area%20Type%20Status%20Summary%20Modified%20Owner%20Mstone%20OS" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25404&...</a><p>I noticed that detail when I was trying out Chromium a while back, and it still hasn't been fixed. It seems like a simple but basic security feature. I don't know what else isn't done yet, but it does make me worry. No guarantees that Firefox isn't doing similar things I'd object to, but I don't know about them, so for better or worse I have more confidence in it.
This may be a niche problem, but I found an interesting bug in chrome yesterday.<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=7357" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=7357</a><p>Basically, if you do a redirect (30x) then the referrer isn't set. This means that a number of things are broken. The referrer should be set, and is set in all other browsers.<p>For example, if someone clicks on a tinyurl link, which redirects to your website, you won't get info on where they came from. The referrer will be empty.<p>Bug was reported in feb, I'm not sure why it's not been fixed, since it's a pretty big bug.
I just called up my local development site which has a ".dev" domain (which is setup in /etc/hosts) in Chrome and it decided it didn't want to load up any JavaScript or CSS. Apparently you have to disable the phishing and malware protection from the options. Just in case anyone else has a similar setup.
I know this isn't 'Chrome Support' - but any idea how I would get the scroll wheel to get working?<p>edit (i.e., have it be that actually clicking it yields the windows behavior of being in a 'scroll mode' - motioning it down will have me going down the page, instead of actually wheeling it down)
Unfortunately, the chromium .deb <i>pre-depends</i> on a version of dpkg that is greater than the ones available on the xandros repositories for my little eeePC (it needs >= 1.14.00; repositories have 1.13.25). I'm sure the eee forums will have a solution to that, so I'll check there.
Looks like they ran out of cash to get Scott McCloud like they did for the first, awesome, Chrome comic: <a href="http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/</a>
I've been using the Ubuntu Chromium PPA builds for the last two months and as far as I can see, it all works just fine. Granted, the Delicious plugin didn't start working until a few weeks ago and I haven't yet tried any other plugin, but the developer tools are very good and those are the majority of my Firefox plugins.
Great...looks slick and runs fast...but with comments like this (<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/</a>), how can I trust it?