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Geek Culture / Torch - Webbrowser

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TheComet
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Posted: 5th Mar 2013 19:30
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Has anyone used this?

http://www.torchbrowser.com/

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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 5th Mar 2013 22:26 Edited at: 5th Mar 2013 22:30
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Reminds me of a Mozilla-based browser I used to use around the time of Netscape which had sharing built in. In all honesty though the only 'novelty' browsers I use are on my ageing PowerPC-based Macs for the performance, and they are closely based off of Webkit or Firefox.

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Blobby 101
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Posted: 5th Mar 2013 22:33
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I am using it now, I was using chrome before, so it's not a difficult switch (It's Chromium based, so the UI is almost identical).
I was also able to copy my settings across from my appData folder with just a little bit of work too.

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 6th Mar 2013 00:39
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To be honest, this looks like someone took Chrome's source code, added 3 plugins, and called it their own browser. The media download button is useful though, I will admit.
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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 6th Mar 2013 01:06
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Like DBD79 stated, everything could be replicated with Chrome and three plugins - does it really warrant an entire browser? Grumbling posts like what I'm writing now annoy me - but I'd want to be sure that they're pushing the latest Chromium security patches on a regular basis if I were to use this. Their development process doesn't seem to be very transparent though, unfortunately.

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TheComet
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Posted: 6th Mar 2013 13:29
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That's because it is based off Chrome's source code.

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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 6th Mar 2013 14:17
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Yeah, so does taking Chromium and adding three plugins really warrant an entire new browser? My point is that they now have to patch across all the security fixes from Chromium in similar time period - is it really worth it?

I'm not bashing it as such, I just don't see the point. But having never used it I am not really qualified to say - so that's as far as my input goes!

What was your experience with it?

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Blobby 101
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Posted: 6th Mar 2013 14:45
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Was Google justified in taking Chromium's source code, doing almost nothing to it and then releasing it as a new browser? xD

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mr Handy
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Posted: 6th Mar 2013 15:20
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if it doesn't sending private data to google, looks good

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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 6th Mar 2013 19:06
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Quote: "Was Google justified in taking Chromium's source code, doing almost nothing to it and then releasing it as a new browser? xD"


That's slightly different though - Chrome contains non-free code, is closed source, and is developed directly by Google.

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 6th Mar 2013 23:23
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Quote: "if it doesn't sending private data to google, looks good"
I honestly don't see what the issue is here. They use your private info to help you. Are you like, paranoid or something that they are going to sell it to some hacker or are out to get you with the personal info they collected?
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Phaelax
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Posted: 8th Mar 2013 01:50
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Quote: " They use your private info to help you. Are you like, paranoid or something"

As everyone should be with how data collection is such a huge thing online these days. But either way, you can turn that off.

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