Chrome on Ubuntu: Install it now, show interest in promoting companies to write Linux software!

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 10:12:33 UTC 2009


> Hmmph...  Their websites _do_ require IE or Firefox to function properly.
> Once you lie to gmail about your browser, you _can_ make it work with
> konqueror, but not well.
>

I have no problems with Gmail in Konqi or Opera. Use the
nobrowsercheck option and you'll be fine.

>> Get over it, everything Google collects is information that your web
>> browser is giving them. Complain to your browser vendor for providing
>> features such as cookies,
>
> _my_ browser doesn't save cookies for anyone I don't want.  In fact, I run
> konqueror for security, and firefox when I don't care (which is not to say
> that I couldn't stop firefox storing cookies, it's just convenient to have
> one browser prompt whether to use a cookie, and the other to just go ahead
> and do it).

That is because you are educated, and not simply spewing out the ZOMG
PRIVACY arguments without understanding them.

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Dotan Cohen

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