[shimpaku]

OK...I just installed Chrome yesterday and it lasted for only three hours!
I found out that it doesn't support WYSIWYG editor so, that was that and it's now gone. Other than that everything on it worked just fine as far as displaying my two sites flawlessly.

Yes, I realize that this is not what the discussion is really about so let me get to another more pertinent point here. It's a well known fact that Google is a powerful entity and will continue to be so. Hell, stop and think about your Firefox (which I have used for years)! Google is and has been a very integral part of FF for sometime now!

Now consider this. The top two browsers as of now are I.E. and FF. Knowing the track record of Google I would not at all be surprised that in the years to come that the Google browser, albeit it may not be called "Chrome", may very well become one of the top browser's.

I think that this paranoia of Google is getting a bit absurd and akin to the McCarthy era of having a Communist under every bed sheet! For those that firmly believe Google is an evil entity then by all means continue doing so. If that is true than in all honesty I would have to lump in Microsoft with them!

The simple point being is that one of the hardest things in getting a forum site started and off the ground is in gaining members! Granted, and it has been pointed out many times here, that if one does not wish to install this mod is to simply....not install it! Most, if not many here, know more than the average "potential" member who may happen upon your site and become curious as to it's content are more technically oriented than they. If they should happen to do so and see that they are not allowed in because of the browser they are using (Google Chrome) I can most emphatically assure you they will not return! They will not understand why and will simply move on with a possible exiting utterance of "screw you"! I know for a fact I would do the same.

What happens if indeed Google "Chrome" or, whatever it may be called in the future, becomes the number one, two or three browser on the Internet! Thanks.....but no thanks. I think the mod is a tad ridiculous and a premature thing to install on ones forum but, that's just my opinion. I'll be damned if I'm going to take the chance of even losing one potential member when more than likely they will in no way understand as to why they are being turned away!

~Phil