Development, Privacy, and Standards for Chrome

Continuing our coverage of Google Chrome, snydeq points out an Infoworld story about looking at the new browser from a developer's perspective, and another about how WebKit should be the focus of development efforts, rather than the browsers that use it. TGdaily notes that Chrome's search box will fetch all types of data, and can be made to display banking information with little effort. ABC and coderrr have slightly more paranoid articles questioning Google's commitment to privacy. NetworkWorld suggests that Chrome's unique process model (explained here) will require the development of new measurement standards.

Completely good and noble

[David Gerard]

Webkit is completely safe; Apple is completely good and noble. Google will maintain complete confidentiality within the marketing department [today.com] of whatever the browser accessed concerning your confidential business data, bank account details, medical information and personal preferences in pornography. Apple won't even tell you about you.

Two was bad enough

[FloydTheDroid]

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror as their managers noticed that this Webkit browser has a couple of percentage points.

Re:Chrome is a resource hog

[drseuk]

Obviously you've never been married then. >=50% resource use is perfectly normal.