OK well maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. I don't really care. But what with their crazy EULA for using it (which basically amounts to 'if you use CHROME, then Google will own your soul) and the fact that they are abusing (well OK that's possibly debatable too) their market position by placing the CHROME download link front and centre on the main Google page, I won't be in a hurry to ditch FF and all my cool extensions any time soon.

But I would like my old Google back. (You know the one that says that it won't do evil?)

With that in mind, is there any way of getting rid of the download link on the main Google page so I can have the old default simple Google page back again?

I just feel like my face is being shoved in it every time I see it.

I tried adblock-plus, but that didn't work.

They are changing the EULA:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080...-change-it.html

all google services have similar if not identical clauses in the EULA

When google toolbar just came out, they put a link too dude. Nothing wrong with that, it's their own product.
you are not the only one whos whining about adblock plus, in fact the whole internet is whining about that.
but think logically, Google only has two options to enable Adblock Plus:
Google can port one from Firefox, but it will get tons of lawsuits for disabling ADs.
Google can open up 3rd party plugins, but that will significantly affect its stability.

You should go read google's comic about Chrome. This browser is not designed to be a regular web browsing browser, its more of App oriented. Thus its javascript performance is friggen scary. firefox also claims that they are not worried about Chrome. They are not rivals, they take different battlefields.

use it or leave it, two simple solutions

Can someone give me a run down of the EULA? The parts that everyone is up in arms over?

Basically they copied the EULA from other Google services, which wasn't relevant to the browser. They're being removed.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080...-change-it.html

Thanks and thanks.

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If you're familiar with Ad Muncher, it works with Chrome and everything else. http://www.admuncher.com/

i love chrome. its my new favorite browser. =)

All this complains about Chrome. Why ?
It works fine . looks better than firefox

But no addons yet but i really don't care

yes and so does Privoxy (www.privoxy.org). It blocks almost everything out of the box and it's free and released under GNU GPL licence.
Also for paranoid ones there is always Chromium which is basically the same thing as Chrome but without Google branding and released under BSD licence ...
build.chromium.org

Sorry like but so what if they have a link to Chrome on the google home page. It is their page to do with as they see fit.

needs to mature as a browser

It will get there. They have a boat load of developers working on it.

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