Chrome 69 Arrives With Revamped Design, More Powerful Omnibox, and Better Password Manager (venturebeat.com) 60
An anonymous reader writes: Google today launched Chrome 69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Android, and iOS, just a few days after the browser's 10-year anniversary. The release includes a new design, more powerful omnibox, updated password manager, more accurate autofill, plenty of developer-specific changes, and a slew of security improvements. You can update to the latest version now using Chrome's built-in updater, download it directly from google.com/chrome, or grab it from Google Play and Apple's App Store. Further reading: As Chrome turns 10, Google bets on AI and AR, and Google wants to kill the URL.
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Splain to me how the interweb can work without a url. Sure you can go to having people remember an IP address again because that worked so well last time right... Not to mention site hosting becomes harder as they can no longer share an IP address. Unless you redesigned web servers and clients making us have to give a url to the client to pass to the server... Hey wait isn't that how it works now?
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They're not proposing you use IP address (where the hell did you get that from?)
I'm guessing he got it from "Google wants to kill the URL".
1 - Without a URL, you're limited to IP addresses. On an IP network, anything that maps to or substitutes for IP addresses is effectively a URL. Thus, if you're killing the URL, your only option for accessing shit is via its actual address, port, and protocol.
2 - Did you all give up on the abortion that was forcing people to say URI instead of URL? I hope so!
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Thank you for articulating my point better than I could.
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The summary makes it plain that Google wants something to replace current HTTP:// style URLs because they're cryptic and easy to create misleading versions of.
I imagine Google will have Chrome (and encourage other browsers to) send the URLs to Google where they will be logged, and perhaps analyzed and cleaned up, and a token will be sent back to the browser with information for the browser to use, like the URL and display name... This will allow Google to track even more users, their information and browsing habits. I'll add my "No thanks" to the already long list of others who don't want this.
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I hadnt saw that article when I posted this but it says so in the summary so not really off topic. And sexconker helped define my brain thought, so read his post to see what I meant.
...and Improved Spying! (Score:4, Insightful)
You forgot THAT feature...
Does Chrome still install 3 system services? (Score:2)
A long time ago, I installed the Google Chrome browser. It installed 3 system services. I discovered that using the free SysInternals Process Explorer [microsoft.com]. Chrome back then took control over computers.
Does Chrome still install 3 system services? Is Chrome spyware?
I recommend Microsoft's SysInternals [microsoft.com]. There are numerous helpful programs written by one of the best programmers ever connected with Microsoft, Mark Russinovich [wikipedia.org]. (He is now CTO of Microsoft
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Chrome 69 (as did 68 and 67; I forget about earlier) on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit installs the following "things" that would fall under the categorisation you're implying:
- Two (2) Task Scheduler entries: GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore and GoogleUpdateTaskMachineUA. The former gets run any time the user logs on, as well as at 18:28 every day (at least on my machine). The latter gets run at 18:28 every day, repeating every 1 hour for 1 day. The former runs C:\Program Files (x86)\Google Update\GoogleUpdate.ex
Application update service (Score:3)
Both major third-party evergreen web browsers (Chrome and Firefox) install a service to download and apply security updates. If the current user were an administrator, the browser could use a service-free update flow, in which an update is installed after the user has closed the browser. But if the current user is not an administrator, and no administrator is immediately available to enter the elevation password, a service-free update cannot complete.
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A long time ago, I installed the Google Chrome browser. It installed 3 system services. I discovered that using the free SysInternals Process Explorer [microsoft.com].
Thanks for the advertisement. I discovered them using the task manager or the management console.
Yes Chrome still installs services. If that is your definition of spyware then maybe go talk to the men in white coats and avoid any hard objects.
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Keep hearing this claim but never see any evidence. Surely if it was true someone would have used packet capture to prove it by now.
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>"Keep hearing this claim but never see any evidence. Surely if it was true someone would have used packet capture to prove it by now."
If they are doing it "right" then perhaps it isn't that easy to know. So although one would think someone would notice something right now, perhaps not. One thing is certain- with a binary blob (like Chrome) it is hard to analyze beyond what it puts on the network.
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"-1 Troll how dare you question the prescribed narrative!"
When you are offended by people asking for evidence that your religious dogma is true you have a problem.
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What was the reasoning behind making the tabs taller, but the text still the same size on them? It feels like I lost a little browsing real estate.
Courage.
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The curve trend comes and goes.
So with the Old "GUI" Which was just text mode, Everything was flat because wasting a space would be impossible to work.
Then these text modes went to 50 row displays text modes, this gave enough room for buttons to have boxes with beveled appearances to them.
After a while when they switched to early GUI they really slowed the system down, so they didn't waste too much processing in making items rounded or beveled. Just because the extra processing power to draw them.
Then as s
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Vertically narrow controls are harder to hit reliably with a finger on a 2-in-1 laptop's touch screen.
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Love the vomit inducing amount of childishness in the video, intended to mask the vile nature of this corporate entity
Have you interacted with the "average" person lately? A good portion of the internet population has the IQ of a seven year old, and THAT is who this infomercial is targeted towards.
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Made text blurry with custom scaling in Windows (Score:1)
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Another redesign failure (Score:3)
Just what I want (Score:2)
Just my 2 cents
On another note (Score:2)
Just my 2 cents
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Insensitive clods (Score:2)
On the day our beloved folk hero, Servalan (aka Jaqueline Pearce) died. The fact that she was notoriously sexy in her youth in no way relates to the version number.
Seriously, a revamped design? You're infinitely better off with a modular design and a scripted UI. That way, you can upgrade modules independently and the design is whatever the user wants.
Servalan, I think, would have approved.
killing the url is for manipulating people (Score:1)
On this topic, check tflow's talk on 34c3:
lecture: Uncovering British spies’ web of sockpuppet social media personas [events.ccc.de]
Chrome this bugs me (Score:2)
Have not looked in to it but maybe they are preparing to open all links in a page in background browsers so they can appear fast?
Did I ask for that do I care?
Just my 2 cents
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Just wondering?
Just my 2 cents
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I just switched to Firefox (Score:1)
Vertical Tabs (Score:1)