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Great, another creepy thing in Chrome we have to disable. Like Google Software Update wasn't already annoying enough.

If I wasn't a web developer, and needed to use Chrome for testing, I'd have uninstalled that creepy quasi-spyware long ago.




Why is Chrome "needed"? I would imagine merely having a standards-compliant browser is the only thing you need?

In which case, why not Firefox?


In practice it’s not unusual for behavior to differ between chrome and Firefox.


Especially when google has been known to program their sites in a way that favors their browser..


Sounds like a good way of saying that one or both browsers is/are not following standards


Chrome isn't identical. For example, we found SVG images don't render properly in Chrome but do in Firefox.


As creepy as the Mozilla Maintenance Service.




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