not ALL of chromes source is open.

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Almost all of it. And you can easily see what it sends/ gets from google using packet managing software and it's all listed in that article.

Very few parts of Google's code aren't made open source and none of those have anything to do with sending or receiving data.

Crash report software is open source. Autoupdate software is open source. 99% of this project is open source.

There is literally no reason to believe that Chrome "steals info" other than the media playing up whatever the hell they can find.

Small tidbit with Chrome: There's an updater plugin it installs to Firefox and to Windows startup.
Now that's some really nasty thing to do and I really hope they review / fix that.

It installs it to firefox? I've never heard of that but I've never had both installed at the same time.

But yes, Chrome's autoupdate starts with windows. It doesn't effect boot time with my current hard drive. I've used boottimer.exe to measure and I'm 19.5 seconds~~ pretty much no matter what.

Most programs will put a startup entry for updates. Java does this for example. It's a big security boon to programs like Java, which need security updates as soon as they're available. It's less important with Chrome, which is pretty secure already, but Chrome's #1 goal has always been security first with performance second.

(04-20-2011 10:56 PM)Hungry Man Wrote:  But yes, Chrome's autoupdate starts with windows. It doesn't effect boot time with my current hard drive.

Point is that it's intrusive, I remember first time I tried chrome I actually had to make a security policy for it to not set the autoupdater each time since I didn't want it, I really hope that improved since then

I don't think the autoupdater has changed at all. You can go to msconfig and simply disable it.

I wouldn't recommend it though. It checks for updates every 25 hours and the process itself takes about 5MB of RAM.

I'm willing to lose 5MB in order to get my security updates ASAP =p

While it should be possible to turn auto-updating off I can see why it's a very low priority to add that functionality.