Google Chrome Privacy Settings Foretell Major E-Commerce Headaches
Written by Evan SchumanSeptember 8th, 2008
One of the biggest ongoing headaches for E-Commerce execs has been customizable options for browsers, pop-up blockers, firewalls, spyware blockers and any other applet that is hawked to consumers. Without such consistency, it's impossible to control—or even predict—how Web pages will look and act for various customers and prospects.
With a new entry into the browser battleground—Google's Chrome—comes more customization nightmares. This problem is going to get a lot worse very quickly as many E-Commerce sites try and get more complex with more interactivity, multimedia and even 3-D experiments at the same time as consumers are getting more comfortable playing with their browser settings.
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September 10th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
For the life of me, as a user, I can’t understand why anyone would trust a browser by Google? Google is the company that started and perfected toolbar SPAM in that almost any software application you install also wants to install a side of toolbar.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:45 am
So far I’ve been pretty impressed with Chrome but I have to admit that I haven’t done any commerce with it yet.
September 11th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
The transparency we get from having Chrome as an open source project helps me feel at ease about the trust issue. Also, Chrome’s design philosophy seems to be “remove anything that is not absolutely necessary”.
October 1st, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Have not had a chance to use it but still dont see the use of any other browser when microsoft updates and other microsoft related things only udate or use Internet Explorer.