Rating and comments for Chrome

Google would turn your personal information over to the government in a heartbeat. Why would anyone in their right mind want to use it's browser?

I think it's a bit too early to include Chrome, because although it is indeed open source, it only runs on a single closed-source operating system at the moment (i.e. Windows). It will eventually be released for Mac OS X and Linux later in 2009 and that's probably when you should have first included it.

Perhaps osalt.com should have a rule that they only include open source software if it *also* runs on at least one open source operating system and on at least two operating systems overall? By doing this, it allows users to pick open source software that will let them migrate between platforms more easily (yes, some people might go from an open source OS to a closed source OS as well, but this allows them to do that migration too). Remember that this is an "open source as alternative" site and I think that should apply to the OS'es that the software is run on too.

If you ever surfed, blogged, commented or emailed on the net, governments ALREADY have your info. As long as you aren't interesting to them, who cares.

no adblock built in. firefox is 1up on that.

Although I

Chrome is based on the open source Chromium...perhaps that's what should be included here, for all intents and purposes, it's identical to Google's Chrome.

chrome? dont make me laugh... its just spyware with google logo. srware iron is much better@

From the EULA for Chrome:
8. Proprietary rights

8.1 You acknowledge and agree that Google (or Google’s licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the Services (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist).

This is NOT open source. This is freeware (free as in beer).

You're listing Gimpshop but not GIMP? Gimpshop hasn't been
updated for several years, and is quite buggy. GIMP, on the
other hand, is updated regularly and is truly open source.

Non-native look. Poor customization. Feels cold and alien.