RE: Google Chrome

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Yeah, my Kerios firewall kept popping up asking me to Permit google something to go somewhere off my computer. Even when Chrome wasn't running. I sure like the skinnyness and the last visited webpage. What can you tell a 500 pound gorilla? probably nothing.
 


>>> "Boyd, Todd M." <tmboyd1@xxxxxxxx> 9/4/2008 1:26:16 PM >>>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolf [mailto:lonewolf@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:34 PM
> To: Boyd, Todd M.
> Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Google Chrome
>
> <!-- SNIP -->
> > You can at least track memory + cpu usage through the Task Manager
> > (Ctrl-Alt-Del + T on most distros). In the Task Manager, I also
> noticed
> > that GoogleUpdate.exe is running even when Chrome.exe is not. This
> made
> > me a bit curious, so I went into msconfig (the Microsoft GUI utility
> for
> > modifying startup programs, services, and system INI files) and saw
> that
> > GoogleUpdate.exe had been added to the list of programs to run on
> > Windows startup.
> >
> > I hate, hate, HATE it when programs install resident agents that eat
> my
> > memory and perform background network activity. Rrgh! Points taken
> away
> > from Google for this app's EULA and its methods. Slick otherwise,
> though
> > (aside from the lack of XMLDOM instantiation support for
> _javascript_)...
>
> startup monitor -> sure it runs at startup, but that little bugger
> keeps an eye on my startup and asks me if I want to allow my startup to
> be modified.

Yeah, I used to use a program that had similar functionality. Haven't really bothered putting much of my "familiar" software on my work PC, but maybe I should after this... it has been bogging down a bit lately, after all.


Todd Boyd
Web Programmer




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