[Info-vax] OT: Chrome bug with Applet and threading

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 25 May 2012 07:48:42 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply
wrote:

> In article <00AC1D7C.120A38EE at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-
> @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 
>> Fuck Chrome and fuck Google too.  On Wednesday, the Google doodle was a
>> pseudo-Mini-Moog synthesizer to honor the birthday of Robert Moog.  It
>> was also used to push Chrome -- especially, after reports had it
>> besting M$IE -- and it did so by crippling the doodle on a number of
>> browsers.
>> 
>> I'm glad to see M$IE go but if Google is going to play the same games
>> as the evil Redmond empire then, it's only a bittersweet victory.
>> 
>> I will see Michelle Moog (Bob's daughter) in a couple of weeks and I
>> will ask her to voice a complaint (hers will carry more clout) about
>> using her father's legacy to promote this sort of sleezy marketing push
>> by Google.
> 
> A nice idea with the, errm, Goog synthesizer, but if other browsers were
> intentionally crippled, then Google is really stooping down to the level
> of Microsoft.

That is not all they have been up to recently.  In the run up to their 
new EULA:

o - I could not do a Google Groups search without being logged in to
    a Gmail account.  Deleting cookies sorted that one out.
o - When not logged in to Google I was seeing random delays of up to 2
    minutes before a Youtube video would start playing.  That was playing
    dirty.
o - Google search would throw a tantrum if I didn't have Javascript
    enabled.
o - There were too many stories floating around that Google wanted me
    to use my real name for my Google account (Hah! I'd already fooled
   'em on that one, but I could have had that account invalidated at
    any time).
o - Google wanted my phone number as part of their 2 step authorisation
    process.  While there was no evidence that they were using that for
    marketing purposes, who was to say that I wouldn't get pestered to
    death at some point in the future for letting them have that
    information?

There's more than that, and I took the opportunity that the new EULA 
implementation gave me of deleting the Gmail account.

I also note that when Firefox 12 landed on my Linux systems, the update 
deleted my preference from the search engines list and made Google the 
default instead.

-- 
Paul Sture