[ale] OT: Google releases new OS browser - CHROME

[Jim Philips]

On Thursday 04 September 2008 09:19:48 Robert Reese~ wrote:
> > so the winders world gets another chunk of spyware to run on their
> > box. And Google gets deeper access to everything they do. "Do no
> > evil" is pretty vague and referenceless. They can do a lot of
> > "really bad" before they cross the line to "evil".
> > I'm glad I run GNU/Linux!
>
> .:sigh:.  Would you like a little tinfoil to go with that whine?
>
> If someone doesn't like whatever you presume Chrome is doing, then they are
> perfectly allowed to remove that functionality from the source code and
> redistribute it.
>
> R~

On a similar front: Has anybody tried ubiquity for Firefox? It gives you 
something like a command-line terminal where you can execute simple commands 
and see results immediately. For instance:

weather atlanta, ga

will immediately give you a graphical window of the current weather. Or:

tr <foreign gibberish here>

will immediately start trying to translate whatever language you typed in. You 
can also map locations, use it as a calculator or search based on text you 
highlight on a Web page. It's a fantastic little Swiss Army Knife kind of 
tool. See:

http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

and also:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1_User_Tutorial