Comments on: CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome

It may be too soon for businesses to switch from Internet Explorer, but execs hope Google's browser could spur Microsoft to up its game.

[mrorie]

Ironically enough, Chrome is much, much faster at dealing with Sharepoint than IE is. Obviously you lose some functionality, but for browsing documents and such it's a huge improvement.

[Save_Me_from_my_Govt]

After reading the user-license agreement, I'm not putting it on my machine. The companies can do what they want.

[pjhenry1216]

What's wrong with the user-license agreement? I don't see any problems with it anymore.

[benjaminstraight]

Everyone will use it eventually

[Vegaman_Dan]

I doubt enterprise level companies will adopt it because there is no support for the product. As long as it is Beta (is any Google app NOT still in beta years later?) and that means no support or liability for using it.

Give it time though. It only came out a short time ago. A company would be foolish to adopt a bleeding edge product.

[zizzybaloobah]

The thing both Firefox and Chrome (and Opera?) need to get adopted is solid enterprise management capabilities for their products. I know a lot of IT managers who love Firefox for example, but can't deploy it within their organization because they aren't able to deploy and manage it a the granular level they can with IE.

[howard_nyc]

Q: why can't you install both...?

People -- excuse me, corporate users -- would select whichever browser best suited a given situation

Dude, use a bicycle to go around the block... and jet around the world with Chrome....

(whoops my bias is showing)

[Kwasiowusu]

Chrome is chock full of malicious Google spyware. Any CIO that installs it on his company's PC's should be sued.

[ivorycruncher]

Until Chrome supports NTLM authentication (a.k.a. Single Sign-On), there's no way my company will even touch it. We have one web app already that depends on that feature, and others may follow soon. That app is completely inaccessible from Chrome. Firefox does support NTLM, althouth you need to manually enable it per site in the advanced configuration page (sort of a while list of sites to allow NTLM to work on). We have a few Firefox users here and there, but those users are typically more advanced than most. Everybody else just uses IE7 as their default, because even though there are more security risks, "it just works." Most average users wouldn't have the patience to hassle with switching back and forth between two separate browsers. Yes, if Firefox were more manageable, it might be easier to deploy, but all it will take is for somebody to run into a site that requires ActiveX, and they have to switch back to IE again.

[ferretboy88]

Chrome is spyware

[JoSlaight]

I'm a home user and an artist (visual). I'm trying out G-Browser right now, but I like Firefox 3.0 much better. "Just Because It's FREE" is not a great reason to adopt it.
I hate I.E. and every website that requires it, tho. I used Netscape browser from 1990-2002. I've used Mozilla's Browsers & T-bird since, but with every kind of security software you can think of.
So today I check out Chrome, and throw my 2 cents in.

[fadetosepia]

At my company, timecard fraud is the #1 reason for firings with #2 being surfing inappropriate sites. Sure, they can see everything on the firewall and the network but it's always good to backup a good firing with hard evidence. There was a study done on forensics and it was found that Chrome's incognito mode doesn't really store data on hard drive. So, for many companies this may be a problem if they're trying to get physical evidence of the employee's surfing habits.

http://www.surfchrome.com/index.php/home/news-list-mode/70-incognito-mode-forensics