What is Chrome secretly up to?

mr_fishbulb

It could be the indexing it does of all your history so you can search through it on the "Most Visited" page

[Deleted User]

chickflix wrote: »

Google is one of the most trusted major computer companies out there.

At any time you wish, please feel free to join us in the real world..

Bob63

esbo wrote: »

abuse reported

!!!!!!? What's abusive about posting a rather funny picture?

In addition to the link already posted, you might want to check out how much memory is being used. If you don't have huge amounts of memory then the disk thrashing could be caused by Windows paging parts of memory out to disk. One rather neat feature of Chrome is that each tab runs as a separate app, but a downside is that this can make it more memory-hungry than a traditional monolith-process based browser. Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del) can show you if this is the problem. Check whether the commit charge is close to or greater than the amount of physical memory that you have in the computer.

Steve-o

cheesy.mike wrote: »

!!!!!!? What's abusive about posting a rather funny picture?

Nothing.

Chrome works fast for me, with no disc thrashing. There are a few other 'issues' that I found problematic, but nothing surprising in a beta release.

esbo

cheesy.mike wrote: »

!!!!!!? What's abusive about posting a rather funny picture?

In addition to the link already posted, you might want to check out how much memory is being used. If you don't have huge amounts of memory then the disk thrashing could be caused by Windows paging parts of memory out to disk. One rather neat feature of Chrome is that each tab runs as a separate app, but a downside is that this can make it more memory-hungry than a traditional monolith-process based browser. Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del) can show you if this is the problem. Check whether the commit charge is close to or greater than the amount of physical memory that you have in the computer.

It's abusive because of what the picture implies.
I have posted twice as to what the problem is and the solution.

Marty_J

esbo wrote: »

It's abusive because of what the picture implies.
I have posted twice as to what the problem is and the solution.

I think it was in response to your initial idea that it was up to "no good".

This is funnier though:

esbo

Marty_J wrote: »

I think it was in response to your initial idea that it was up to "no good".

I don't care what it was in response to, I report anything I consider abusive.
There is plenty of evidence that google is up to no good, including I believe a clause
in their contract which granted them copyright and sole rights to any you do with it?

"Did you know that when you download Google's new Chrome browser, you agree that any "content" you "submit, post or display" using the service — whether you own its copyright or not — gives Google a "perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute" it?"

How trustworth is a company which sneaks something lilke that into their contract?

And that is just the stuff they have been caught doing.

Anyway I have reported you too I will let them decide if you intend to be abusive or not.

Browntoa

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210500008&subSection=Enterprise+Applications

In an effort to dispel fears that it might claim ownership rights over all work done using its new Chrome browser, Google has revised Chrome's Terms of Service agreement.

globalds

"Did you know that when you download Google's new Chrome browser, you agree that any "content" you "submit, post or display" using the service — whether you own its copyright or not — gives Google a "perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute" it?"

How trustworth is a company which sneaks something lilke tha into their contract?

And that is just the stuff they have been causght doing.

You could always uninstall it

esbo

globalds wrote: »

You could always uninstall it

Yea I suppose you could get rid of all compting problems by throwing your computer
in the bin.

That's not how I like to deal with problems though.