Google announced that they would be releasing their own web browser, and its called Chrome. Their new approach to web browsing and how the software processes javascripts are explained in a well drawn and written comic book, yes comic book. It really is a full length graphic novel! You can see for yourself here.
I, personally am both for and against this browser.
As a web designer I think its great that Chrome (which is almost certain to be a success) will enter the arena as a web compliant browser. It makes my job so much easier, and puts more pressure on Microsoft to adhere to web standards like every one else in the browser business.
On the other hand as an end user I really hate Google’s EULAs (End User Licence Agreements), for some reason Google think its acceptable to claim copyright ownership over everything you write, create and or store with their tools. They did this with Google Mail where they had the right to reproduce any or all of the content of you inbox and reproduce and distribute it royalty free and as a user of said product you agree. As you can probably guess they’ve done it again in the EULA Chrome.
Chrome will track your every move online but more worryingly has a buil-in key logger which will take loog every single keystroke you make while you are in the browser and quite possibly every keystroke you make while the browser is running.
Now if that doesnt sound like spyware to you I don’t know what will! I’m not overly paranoid about this but my biggest concern is where is all this data stored and how secure is it. You have to remember that when web sites like Google and Facebook gather all this information on you that most of the time its not what they will do with it that should concern you but what a hacker can do with it should they crack their security and gain access to your data that should ake you think twice about how uch information software like a web browser can be giving away about you.
If your are interested in downloading a beta of the Chrome Browser you can get it here. (Too bad its only for Windows at the moment).
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