Thursday, September 4, 2008

Chrome Browser from Google

Not sure if you are aware about this new application, but recently SMH has been reporting Google's new Internet Browser - Chrome. Today I learned more about it from this news, and I am not so sure if I really want to use it as my primary Internet browser. I don't use every single product that Google produced. I use my Gmail mainly, and of course, their flagship search engine. I kinda shift to neutral when I realised that a lot of online stuffs are now associated with them somehow.

I just don't like them putting too many fingerprints on the things I do or use online. It's unfortunate that the Blogger that I am using forced me earlier to use my gmail logon to sign-in. Some people might like the idea of single sign-on. By having one simple username and password, they can pretty much access everything online without remembering all different accounts and passwords. But not me. I deter from their online word processor, their online spreadsheet, my photo album and many more. I don't mind to use them indenpendantly though. However, it sounds too risky to me if one's google account gets compromised. Someone can impersonate an online identity by using just one logon. It is just way too powerful.

Therefore, this browser is not really for me :)

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