It’s not the new software, tho. Chrome would run just fine, nice and sleek and whatever. The problem was that it insisted on auto-updating itself and that process was too heavy. It could have asked before it ran, or allowed you to schedule it, or allowed you to get rid of update altogether, but it didn’t (doesn’t?) and that’s not cool.
I don’t have any beef with Chrome. I don’t care about it one way or another. I’m just answering the question as to “what’s wrong with Google Update?”
A lot of machines are all about scaling back on power for portability nowadays, so a heavy uncontrollable update process wouldn’t just be a problem for someone with a shitty old machine. It could be a problem for people with lightweight new machines too.
Entered this in chrome address bar - chrome://settings/passwords , This shows all saved usernames and passwords(on clicking show). I am wondering whats the rational behind showing passwords. This shouldn’t be happening, what say?
Every so often (when I get nervous/paranoid about google having access to everything) I decide to switch from chrome to another browser, but so far, on my computer, chrome is the fastest one, which is the only reason I stick with it.
I’ve tried firefox, waterfox and palemoon.
If someone (with nefarious purpose) is sitting behind your unlocked computer you’re fucked anyway. “Hiding” your passwords is a false sense of security.
Chrome does hide them, it shows the only when one clicks ‘show’ beside each p/w on “chrome://settings/passwords” .
Lets say that I ask someone for using their computer for a minute to check email, I can get all stored passwords in that time just like that without installing anything on the computer.
Actually, I just found the option to disable this, buried in the settings:
To disable IE tab previews in taskbar, just open Internet Explorer > Tools > Internet Options. Open settings for ‘Tabs’ and uncheck the box saying ‘Show previews for individual tabs in the taskbar’. Click Ok and restart IE for letting changes to take effect.
Again, just comes across as an interesting default setting, on a tabbed browser.
If you are afraid someone uses (steals) your credentials, you should presume they have installed a keylogger. I.e. either you trust someone or you don’t.
If you know where to look other browsers store passwords in equally convienient manner.
My point is: chrome makes it clear someone with acces to your computer can do a lot of damage. This IMHO is a better approach than feeling safe because YOU don’t know where IE stores your passwords.
Before Firefox, IE was basically the dominant option, and so Microsoft didn’t have a lot of incentive to improve it or have it comply with standards. As a result it really did start to suck. Then Firefox came along with a bunch of improvements (as well as some problems of their own) then Chrome and Safari gained marketshare. People touted them as better then IE because they were.
But Microsoft has long since responded, and improved IE to the point that I don’t think the average user really has much grounds to care what browser they use.
