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[ NNSquad ] Why I'm Switching to the Google Chrome Browser (New Privacy Enhancements)
Why I'm Switching to the Google Chrome Browser (New Privacy Enhancements)
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000696.html
Greetings. You may recall my saying in the past how much I liked
Google's Chrome Browser, and what enormous potential I thought it had
for the future.
You may also remember that I've repeatedly stated that I would not
consider using it as my primary browser until such a time that it
included per-site cookie management tools at least on par with Firefox
and Internet Explorer.
That impediment to the adoption of Google Chrome has now vanished.
At the start of this month, Google released a beta version of Chrome
including a new array of content-related privacy controls
( http://bit.ly/bZsci3 [Google Chrome Blog] ). These new features have
now migrated to the latest stable (non-beta, non-developer)
Windows-based Chrome release (4.1.249.1036).
This is a big deal from my standpoint. Site-by-site controls are now
available in Chrome for cookies, images, JavaScript, and browser
plugins, along with other privacy-related functions
( http://bit.ly/aObHgu [Google Chrome Docs] ).
Especially given the speed and other performance advantages of
Chrome -- including a rapidly growing and sophisticated plugin
environment -- these new privacy enhancements remove the constraints
that had previously forced me not to recommend Chrome for routine
browsing (particularly in privacy-sensitive environments).
I have lately been decreasingly enamored of Mozilla Firefox -- my main
browser of choice for years -- for a number of reasons, and the less
said about Microsoft's Internet Explorer the better. And I'm really
not interested at all in Apple's Safari browser -- the closed Apple
ecosystem is a giant downer.
With per-site cookie controls and other privacy enhancements now in
general release, Google Chrome looks to be a real winner and at the
very least is definitely now worthy of serious consideration for all
Web browsing purposes by all Internet users.
Looks like it's time to press the "Make Google Chrome my default
browser" button. Sometimes change is definitely a good thing.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, NNSquad
- Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org
Founder, GCTIP - Global Coalition
for Transparent Internet Performance - http://www.gctip.org
Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein