Re: Google Chrome
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Robert Holtzman<holtzm@cox.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, David Baron wrote:
>
>> The Google Chromium Browser is working on my Debian box. Very quick, works
>> certainly better the kde4 konqueror. Flash not yet implemented.
>>
>> There is a .deb package. Has a nice convenience (should be an option
>> postinstall, however): the installation will somehow set it that apt-get
>> update will list any upgrades so one need not keep visiting their very
>> volatile snapshot to get upgraded .debs.
>
> Not such a nice convenience. I don't like s/w that downloads *anything*
> without my knowledge or permission.
At t the dev.chromium.org site, from which I downloaded the .deb,
there are explicit instructions on how to avoid the automatic update.
So, at least if that's where you get it, it doesn't do anything
without permission.
Patrick
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