Google Chrome

The Google Chrome browser has now been live for a few weeks. We downloaded it on the day it became available. In summary:

• It's very plain - probably a good thing.
• It appears to be very nippy compared to IE7 and Firefox.
• The new tab option brings up thumbnails of the sites you visit most. Which is nice.
• If you agree, it will send details of all your web behaviour back to Google.

So with Google Mail, Google docs, This blogger, the desktop search/toolbar combo and now Chrome, there isn't much that Google won't know about you. Which is either ok or a nightmare depending on your point of view.

We'd always recommend not letting Google or any other provider harvest information about you, your data or your on-line habits.