{"id":28730,"date":"2018-09-24T21:35:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T19:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28730"},"modified":"2018-09-24T21:35:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T19:35:21","slug":"why-im-done-with-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/24\/why-im-done-with-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m done with Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mathew Green shares<\/a> his reasons for leaving the Google Chrome development team.\u00a0 I recommend reading the whole thing, but here’s a quote from the “What’s changed?” part:<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago Google shipped an update to Chrome that fundamentally changes the sign-in experience. From now on, every time you log into a Google property (for example, Gmail), Chrome will automatically sign the browser into your Google account<\/strong> for you. It\u2019ll do this without asking, or even explicitly notifying you. (However, and this is important: Google developers claim this will not actually start synchronizing your data to Google \u2014 yet. See further below.)<\/p>\n

Your sole warning \u2014 in the event that you\u2019re looking for it \u2014 is that your Google profile picture will appear in the upper-right hand corner of the browser window. I noticed mine the other day:<\/p>\n

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Mathew Green shares his reasons for leaving the Google Chrome development team.\u00a0 I recommend reading the whole thing, but here’s a quote from the “What’s changed?” part: A few weeks ago Google shipped an update to Chrome that fundamentally changes the sign-in experience. From now on, every time you log into a Google property (for … Continue reading Why I\u2019m done with Chrome<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[20,1955,384,200],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-browsers","tag-google-chrome","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11355,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/03\/google-chrome-a-new-punch-in-the-browser-fight\/","url_meta":{"origin":28730,"position":0},"title":"Google Chrome – a new punch in the browser fight","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"For the last few days, the biggest thing in the technical news is Google Chrome browser (check the comics book, introducing the browser, download beta).\u00a0 Sure, we had our share of browser wars, and we still do, but this is something completely different.\u00a0 Most of today's browsers started back in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25965,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/23\/good-bye-google-chrome-hello-chromium\/","url_meta":{"origin":28730,"position":1},"title":"Good bye Google Chrome, hello Chromium","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Google dropped the support of its Google Chrome browser on 32-bit Linux operating systems. \u00a0This is very unfortunate, but not deadly. \u00a0This change doesn't affect the Chromium browser - the Open Source project behind Google Chrome. 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