RE: [PHP] Google Chrome

From: Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:33:57 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP] Google Chrome
Groups: php.general 
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<!-- SNIP --> > You can at least track memory + cpu usage through the Task Manager > (Ctrl-Alt-Del + T on most distros). In the Task Manager, I also noticed > that GoogleUpdate.exe is running even when Chrome.exe is not. This made > me a bit curious, so I went into msconfig (the Microsoft GUI utility for > modifying startup programs, services, and system INI files) and saw that > GoogleUpdate.exe had been added to the list of programs to run on > Windows startup. > > I hate, hate, HATE it when programs install resident agents that eat my > memory and perform background network activity. Rrgh! Points taken away > from Google for this app's EULA and its methods. Slick otherwise, though > (aside from the lack of XMLDOM instantiation support for Javascript)... startup monitor -> sure it runs at startup, but that little bugger keeps an eye on my startup and asks me if I want to allow my startup to be modified. :-)

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