(11-06-2014, 08:39 PM)gold_finger link Wrote: This is potentially problematic. While you and many others may feel that Chrome is the "best"; there are a number of people who would react to the inclusion of anything of Google's by default as highly offensive due to the extreme level of data mining and privacy intrusions their business model is based on. I am one of them. Even though I know that I could (and would) immediately delete and replace it, its presence alone on a standard install would be enough to make me reconsider using LL at all. Because of how easy it is to install/remove whatever browser makes one happy, I see no reason to add a potentially highly controversial app that will instantly link negative feelings for Google with LL. (When/If Misko's choose default browser application gets integrated into LL, switching browsers will be even easier than it already is.)
I see your point completely. Believe me, I have tried to avoid Google products like the plague for these reasons. I have migrated away from using Gmail as one example. As another I have tried to use DuckDuckGo for searches instead of Google. And, I have tried to use alternate browsers instead of Chrome. However some problems exist....
Google as a search engine is GOOD. I use it daily to gather system specs for customers for one. DuckDuckGo does a great job, but I have to move back to Google most of the time to find what I am really looking for. Chrome browser I can do without sometimes, but I need it for Netflix and more importantly I need it to view flash content that will not work in the current/last version in Linux from Adobe. I am finding more and more that content requires flash 12 or higher, and that is a big problem for Firefox in linux (and any other browser for that matter). If this keeps up (and I am sure it will), Chrome will be the only answer for viewing flash content. HTML5 is awesome and hopefully will remedy this entirely some day. But for now, new flash is needed and Chrome supplies it.
Bottom line is that sometimes you have to deal with certain things in order to have a useful experience. Most of us deal with non-free software out of convenience and usefulness because the computer is not very useful without much of it. I do not like the fact that Google tracks (although this can be shut off) but it is the only browser available to Linux currently that can do the aforementioned things. And since I want to do those things I have to use it. And because it can do things others cannot currently, it makes it the most useful browser currently available for Linux.
You should check this useful link which explains various portions of Chrome and how to turn it all off to enjoy the browser without the spying:
http://www.howtogeek.com/100361/how-to-o...m-privacy/