🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2012-09-29, Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
>> Since no one posts here I thought I'd try and add something interesting.  
>> I put my PC on a quiet subnet to check on something and noticed google 
>> updates was phoning home every single minute using http with a rather 
>> lengthy session.  This chatter was filling up my logs so I investigated 
>> and found an installation of google chrome had 3 processes running.  
>> After uninstalling google chrome all went away and my laptop is as quiet 
>> as a church mouse on the network.  Since I use firefox exclusively I 
>> completely forgot I installed Chrome a bunch of months ago  to try it 
>> out.  I didn't know that having it installed meant that they could set 
>> up shop on my PC!  And this much activity is rather obnoxious IMHO.
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> Obnoxious maybe, evil, probably not.
>
> From what I understand (which is little), Chrome is unique because it's a
> sandboxed browser. Other words, you shouldn't be able to hit a malicious
> website which can grab your contacts/address book, plant viruses and so
> forth.
>
> It's completely self-contained meaning it doesn't communicate or need calls
> from the operating system and stays where it belongs.
>
> To get that to work, it needs to launch a bunch of background processes,
> everything from the extentions you have loaded to the printer and updater.
> These have to be in the sandbox with the application since they can't be
> called if not there.
>
> I guess the main question is if they should continue to run after the main
> application quits. I dunno. 

There's an option to control this. It's on by default, naturally.

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Kristian M Zoerhoff