68 replies on “Google Chrome: It Gets Better”

  1. I’m a little emotional about this this morning and very proud. I’m so happy our teens and young people are being helped by this project. Please continue to share the love and give someone 2 minutes of your time. You just never know how much it may mean to the other person. It may make their day, week, year, life. Make it better for everyone.

  3. Hey, Canuck and Lissa, good morning you terrible people! @50 what do you mean by “automatic spellchecking” – is it that as you begin to type it likes to offer you suggestions about what the rest of your search term may be? Google calls those auto-suggestions, and here a Google employee explains how to undo them. No, of course it’s not intuitive….

    Turning off Auto-Suggestions (also see Reference 1)
    1. Clear your browsing history
    2. Click the Tools menu
    3. Select Options
    4. Click the Under the Hood tab and find the ”Privacy section
    5. Deselect the ‘Use a suggestion service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar’ checkbox.
    6. Click Close.

    http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Ch…

    If it’s something else I might be able to figure it out still. Though I just switched back to Firefox after a yearlong Chrome experiment (talk about relief!), I do still have it in my apps.

  4. 42
    Most; if not, literally, all; kids are taunted and teased about something by someone.
    Fat, pimples, brainy, skinny, dumb, wrong religion, wrong accent, wrong colour, wrong sport, etc., etc…
    Many of them come from crummy homes and don’t find refuge or support there.
    Some of those kids will crack under the load of their particular burden, most won’t.
    The cold hard fact of life is that life is hard and you have to toughen up to some extent to survive.
    The good news is that the great majority of kids, whatever they are bullied for, will cope and get/be strong enough.
    This is true of ALL kids.

    The problems with IGB are that it

    >Glamorizes the suicides of kids who are gay (or who homosexual activists can suggest in any small way were brushed by the gay…) and focuses HUGE attention on them, which is exactly the opposite of the way teen suicide should be handled
    and
    >it throws all of the responsibility onto some great malicious evil out there and absolves the kids of any responsibility to cope themselves.
    “You’re gay?! Oh-poor dear; it’s a miracle you haven’y killed yourself already…”

    Teen depression is real but it is treatable.
    Creating a ghetto of Cool Gay Kids with Special Needs and blaming everything on the Bad Bad Christians is poor mental health care.

  5. woot, gus, terrible people unite! So, before I told my son to turn auto-correct off his hand-me-down iPhone, he sent me the following text:

    “Me and some friends are sodomy at the mall. Call you later!”

    Of course, I texted back, “Some friends and I.”

  6. @55 essentially confirms that @35 is his new registered identity (one of a number). But I will give credit for attempting a more diplomatic approach.

  9. Canuck, too perfectly dry. “Sodomy at the mall” sounds like one of those band names you think up and then decide against.

  12. I love the ad. And I was all weepy, too, until this comment —

    It Gets Better should go on your tombstones. Well done, guys!

    — completely cracked me up. I know it was unintentional, but thanks, @26!

  13. Lissa, on my Mac desktop and laptop Chrome didn’t handle streaming media (Flash video, html5, silverlight, what have you) as reliably as Firefox, and the damn browser was so slow to actually shut down after I closed it that I frankly felt almost insulted, like Chrome was saying yes, yes, you want me to leave but hang on, what’s your rush, I’m still collecting your activity details for future sale to some marketing partner we’re just sure you’ll be happy to meet….

    Plus Google is for profit and Firefox is nonprofit. I’m pretty easily had on that front….

  14. Irena @63, my daughter once said to me, “That song ‘Brown-eyed Girl’ always reminds me of you, we should play it at your funeral!”

  17. Canuck, that was so very thoughtful of her! What a nice thing to, er, look forward to…?!

    Honestly, this is why I don’t have children. It would be an 18-year-long anxiety attack.

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