Chrome is NOT open-source. Parts of it are open source. Obviously Google won't make public it's trojan capabilities.
2. What trojan capabilities exactly?
- RLZ identifier, an encoded string sent together with all queries to Google[3] or once every 24 hours.
- Accesses Google search on startup for users with Google as default search[4][5]
- Has a unique ID ("clientID") for identifying the user in logs.
- Google-hosted error pages when a server is not present
- Automatic address bar search suggestions.
- Bug tracking system, sending information about crashes or errors.
I think that, before accusing something of having 'trojan capabilities', you should first learn what 'trojan' actually means.
@OP that's the FUD Microsoft etc spread around in the time they were attacking Linux.
FUD?! For their users universe Windows is a pretty damn secure OS. I wonder what would be with Linux holding 90% of the desktop computers around the globe!
People then come up with virus, trojan, whatever as argument, however you forget that the ones doing it do it for the major audience. They're way more up to infect someone in a 90% universe with loads of newbie users than in one of 5% with loads of nerds. Actually you already have virus targeting Firefox...
This - the 'it's just because Windows has more market share' argument - is a known nonsense argument. Correlation is not causation. The security model in Linux is inherently more secure than that in Windows.
Ubuntu however was going in the right direction, up to the last version when they decided to screw it up big time. Yes, you can switch to classic, but most of the users by seeing that will take "Windows" for the "classic". Lucky Bill Gates...
You know, Ubuntu is not the only thing that exists. I always recommend OpenSuSE to new users, exactly because it actually does what Ubuntu promises (working out of the box, not needing a terminal) - without the Unity crap.
Linux keeps doing wrong turns, the only one coming close to threat Windows, Lindows, was sued by Microsoft... they got it covered. I wonder if the new look of Ubuntu wasn't input by MS hired spies to grant that thing sinks before become any threat to Windows.
I always felt like Linux was behind the curve, never really innovating. Everything they have done, was already done my Microsoft or Apple before. Either way, competition is good. Microsoft is much more worried about apple sales numbers than worried about Linux.
I've actually seen the exact opposite rather often.
Ha. The place where I get my groceries doesn't require me to walk past a cashier in the first place.
I guess this means; I'm still leeching my parents...
No, this means I don't like wasting perfectly good food, and I do something called 'dumpsterdiving' - by choice.
EDIT: Oops, broke the quotes.