I stopped pirating PC games when Steam came out. The convenience of ownership outweighed the convenience of piracy.

I have a few pirated games on my DSi XL because I hate lugging cartridges around. I own several DSiware titles because shopping was convenient and I don't need cartridges. Beef up the DS's storage and make games intangible and they'll have sold me.

Bad example.. the memory consumption gets closer as you open more tabs.

I agree with your alternatives, but I still attest that your privacy is unquestionably comporomised to some degree by joining the address and search bars. Other browsers have the same functionality while retaining your privacy by breaking these bars apart. All I'm saying is that there are some URLs people will not want to share with Google.

I made this conclusion based on the Windows task manager. It showed Chrome using upwards of 300MB of RAM or even more, seconds after starting up with 7 or 8 tabs open. This is in stark contrast with Firefox which sometimes gets as high as 250MB with the same number of tabs open, but drops considerably if I close and restart the browser.

Thanks for correcting me. I mean, my analogy was about a tiger and a lion, and that your steak would be safe with neither, but you cleverly inferred my hidden implication that a shark would deftly steal your steak and place it in the nearest freezer.

So you trust a tiger infinitely more with your steak than a lion?

Seriously though, between Microsoft and Google, which company's revenue is more reliant upon user profiling for advertising networks? If I were to make a rash (and perhaps outdated) generalization I'd say that Google is more dangerous to individual privacy, whereas Microsoft is more dangerous to ethical competition with other businesses.

Obviously, by separating search from the address bar. That's how IE and every other browser does Google and Bing suggest. Do you really want to inform Google every time you test your private, internal web staging server at 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.11.22? How does that add value to the user?

Your browsing history doesn't get sent to Google, but every keystroke you type into the address bar gets sent to Google, even if you don't press Enter to submit it. This applies even to internal addresses and IP addresses typed, character by character, into the address bar.

pitdingo's previous comment is absolutely correct. What he implies but doesn't say outright as that even with AdBlock from Chrome enabled you still have to wait for ad banners and scripts to do their thing, so you often must wait and wait for the last pixels of an ad to show before you can start downloading the actual content. Firefox's AdBlock+ is superior in many ways.

My only problem with this is that, with several tabs open, Chrome uses 2-3 times more memory than other browsers. There's a huge footprint to enable its performance.

Just because they're talented and successful, doesn't mean I can't hold a grudge against them forever.

Monolith doesn't do charming games with intelligent dialogue anymore. They only do scary games for 12 year olds now. R.I.P. NOLF and TRON 2.0.

They're both clueless, then. The defendent is claiming that removing hyperlinking will make the web less interesting, when in fact hyperlinking is the only thing defining it as a web!

My wife is using Foobar2000 for Windows which uses 12MB of resident memory. I used it for years as well but the browser is clunky so I switched back to Windows Media Player (30MB resident while viewing a list of album cover thumbnails).