Google Chrome – do not bother.

Read “leak” in the morning, an hour ago watched www.google.com/chrome under my lovely Ubuntu. It took me some time to decide to switch to win to install it before doing it tomorrow at work. And you know? Waste of time. Honestly. They did a good job – browser works fine, renders properly, rendering time is more or less the same as in Firefox. JavaScript runs with the same speed (no real profiling , just a gmail check). Conclusion? No reason to change. That’s it. Try harder Google!

Would be really interesting to have another browser – some complained that (seen on bbc website) we don’t need another browser. Well, we need one – otherwise Mozilla folks will get lazy .

What makes me even more sceptic about it is UI. For me it stinks like IE7. Hate that layout. Maybe it’s just personal preference. Not another cool thing from Google I’m afraid.

Be safe, wear a helmet aka don’t let Firefox spread your personal data

A bit more then week ago Lisa Hoover posted extremely interesting article about stuff that might increase your privacy while browsing the net with Firefox on Linux.com. If you wasn’t aware about all that stuff it’s a good read. For example: I wasn’t aware that by posting some popular links a malicious site might get info about which of ‘em you visited. That sounds bad IMHO.

Anyway, the most interesting part for me is the one about TOR – The Onion Routing. That fancy proxy/routing service with a little help of privoxy let you become almost impossible to find by any site that wants to know something about you. Read about details on TOR project site.

The article on wikipedia states that it’s not *that* secure and basically it’s not exactly what people think it is but, from my point of view, it gives you the most interesting thing: advertisers don’t have bloody idea where you are and who you are. While playing with it I had IP from France, Germany, Norway… The other thing is that it’s too slow, almost unusable if you would ask me. On the other hand for people in some countries like Belarus or China it might be pretty helpful when they want to avoid jail.

Back to the article: the most funny part of it is the Lisa e-mail address. Tt’s on GMail! which is the least secure and privacy-aware service as far I know (shame on me, that’s for those who know that I still use it . If you write about security you want to sound serious you should avoid such services. Anyway, great article.