@Chaim Chaikin: Open source programs make you less vulnerable because more people are looking at the code and closing gaps. Chrome is based on and open source software called Chromium so your comment makes no sense.

@nitrous9200: I gave a source in another mesage for installing in Ubuntu linux, it's Chromium PPA . It offers an alternative media plug ins which are proprietary, and that offers H264. I've been using youtube html5 since day one of using Chromium.

@aikiwolfie: you're using Ubuntu right, ok here's what you have to do. Don't use Chrome, just for the hecks of open source. And add this source to your source list.

@Pickaxe: For me the theme's are ok, in linux they have the ability to use GTK theme which helps it blend with the whole OS, plus you can put the OS bar ontop. It looks and acts just like a native application on my linux install.

@MattBurris: Yes I found myself doing the same thing. I've been using firefox for as long as I remember, and when I found out about chromium for linux. I installed it just incase, you know to have a second browser. Now I don't even open Firefox, I have no need, I never really used extensions, and the browser is…

@SandHammer: Instead of installing Chrome, you can install chromium, the open source project behind Chrome. It's Chrome, but without all the google things, no contract no other stuff. Just the browser, and a cooler logo if you ask me. Download the latests and try it out, I find it to be better. Plus I use Linux, not…

@Spiny: It's faster, the interface is minimal but highly functional, plus if you have a gmail account you can sync all your bookmarks through there.

@valthun: Same here, I just can't get that in Chrome, tried looking for extensions but no luck. The closer is a button to the side. But I started using google reader and would like to see the RSS feeds from google reader in Chrome, from a tab/

@nwilliam3: Yes it is, I do the same added the Chromium daily builds PPA to the source list and I'm impressed a couple of bugs here and there but it's a beta, I didn't expect any less. But it's a great browser.

@Tris Oaten: Yes it is, what I did was et the chromium daily builds, so updates everyday, so I get the latests updates, as soon as they come out, it's beta testing but hell I haven't had much problems with it, a crash or two, but it works great. Plus Chromium is open source.

@TheFu: a $250 it's a full PC you can do much more than a networked playback device, plus I get to install Linux which I use. also most small HTPC's are quite silent. I get what you mean about Apple and Microsoft, I wish all computers came with the no OS option. I just think a full if you could call it full computer…

@TheFu: H264 support on avi is very limited I understand what you mean, but there are some quirks involved in shoving an x264 stream in an avi container, even though it might play there may be many features from the encoder that the container doesn't support.

@TheFu: And Although avi is dying, mkv should take it's place rather than mp4/

@TheFu: I wasn't talking about a codec, I was talking container wise. If we talk codec wise, get some X264 encoded video with aotuv b5.7 encoded vorbis. Plus all the subtitles. What I was saying is that Mkv even though not known by many, should be the one being used instead of avi, or mp4.

@cr0ft: People should stop using avi and mp4. MKV is much advanced than both, supports more subtitles more audio streams, plus it's open source.

@taz20075: In ISO you are copying the entire DVD, MKV in a single file you have the whole movie, plus subtitles, different audios, it's like an advanced .avi container. A lot of players won't play iso correctly.

@Tsylord: Use DVDshrink, or DVDfab

@skubisnack624: Which is weird you know I use linux and get the three finger click, but what I find weird is that if linux can do it on their hardware why couldn't Apple.

actually this is interesting, I have a second generation white macbook 2,1. I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on it for the first time after using ubuntu for like 2 years, now it has Ubuntu 9.10 . I have the three finger click almost by default, and I can't do without it.

@kgwd: The good old days, when perception could change reality.