Of course the big news now that Chrome is out is the privacy concerns. Matt Cutts has posted a paranoia deflating post about when Chrome calls home. But that doesn’t get round the scary EULA granting Google rights on anything we post or view via the browser. But the EULA is for the released product. The source code is under BSD Licence. So, all it takes is a little messing around and you can build your own Chrome which comes without the EULA and the paranoia. Or you can evaluate the source code and find out what it’s really doing, which appears thus far to be nice and harmless. Sure you’ve agreed to evil, but, the browser doesn’t do evil at the moment. Not that anyone’s found to my extensive searching knowledge.

Update Matt has a new post stating that the EULA is wrong and will be changed. Which I pretty much expected.

I’ve found a fault though, enabled Gears in Wordpress in Chrome:

Gears is installed and enabled on this computer. You can disable it from the Safari menu.

Pretty sure this isn’t Safari

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