as i could see there was no option to place sites to block somewhere in google chrome, there was almost no options for anything special. no security options like disable active scripting or such either as i could see.

Scanning cookies and history will be easy, they're in SQLite tables very similar to Firefox 3. Blocking content for immunization is a bit more difficult, I agree, but there's already a place for it - just look at the files, not just the GUI ;) Safe Browsing is a database that seems to be intended for that purpose; just the content of the blob fields in there is a bit unclear yet.

Well this is the first beta after all, I do not think Google will ship a browser so devoid of security/safety features any time soon (heard that it does not support client ssl). Going by the way Gmail has been in beta for years I expect at least 6 months and 3 betas before the browser releases version 1.

As of now they have made the rendering engine and other basics part of the beta, they might bring in more details about cookie control, site blocking later.

I used Chrome for 3 days. Ran Spybot S&D and found 61 malware programs running. I'll be on the sidelines until immunization is figured out.

Don

I just don't like how Google Chrome sends user info to the Google server. Would there be a solution to this problem?

I've recently seen the first clone where the phoning has been stripped right in the source code. I think it was called Iron Chromium or something like that.

Recompiling the (open) source is obviously the best choice, since if there is no phoning home, none needs to get blocked. One just have to make sure sich a clone is always up-to-date to non have otherwise fixed bugs and holes open.