Google donates your open tabs to charity

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When you’re a professional blogger, you have a lot of tabs open on an hourly basis. Like fifty. Or a hundred. Or so many that your top of the line iMac maxed out with RAM and loaded with a lightning fast SSD drive bogs down and begins to spit out acrid smoke. It becomes such a part of your daily life that you spend more time than you could even imagine having passionate opinions about the way browsers display tabs: are favicons necessary? What about multi-rows?

In other words, being a pro blogger can be pretty stupid… but when Google comes along and announces a new charitable initiative as cool as Chrome for a Cause, I thank my lucky stars I have a career that makes me passionate about anything as pedantic as tabs.

What’s Chrome for a Cause? It’s a new extension for Chrome which, if you’re a Chrome user, you should install now. What happens when you install? Every tab you open from that moment forward will trigger Google to make a donation to one of five charities, including

* The Nature Conservancy
* charity: water
* Doctors Without Borders
* Un Techo para mi Pais
* Room To Read

Everyday from today, the 15th, and December 19th, Chrome for a Cause will count how many tabs you have opened, multiply that into cash and ask you at the end of the day which charity to donate your tabs to.

Brilliant. I think, though, Google may have overestimated their fortune: they can not even begin to imagine how many tabs bloggers open up in the course of a day. We’ll bleed them dry.[/p]

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Time to start opening those tabs!

 

[Law]

Ah, very clever Google.

I'm not going to fall for your marketing tricks; Are you really that desperate for people to use your browser?

 

[Tonitonichopchop]

I already use Chrome so I have no reason not to install it

 

[sjones900]

Chrome is a nice browser already. But it's good to know me using it is benefiting someone in need.

 

[Y05h1]

How cool! I'm a chronic tabber, so I could definitely make a significant contribution...
Too bad I got addicted to the latest Firefox Beta.

 

[Santee]

I'm guessing its a 1 cent to 1 tab ratio nonetheless still a great idea.

 

[Uncle FEFL]

Ah, very clever Google.

I'm not going to fall for your marketing tricks; Are you really that desperate for people to use your browser?

Chrome is amazing.

 

[nryn99]

i gotta use my chrome on those days more often

 

[8BitWalugi]

Or so many that your top of the line iMac maxed out with RAM and loaded with a lightning fast SSD drive bogs down and begins to spit out acrid smoke.

loliMac.

Meh, I use Chrome. So long I don't need to pay anything I'm in.

 

[ComplicatioN]

Wow, good on you Google.

 

[Infinite Zero]

I always use Chrome

Could we got some money, too Google pl0x?

 

[Costello]

I'm guessing its a 1 cent to 1 tab ratio nonetheless still a great idea.

I'm pretty sure they don't want to announce a ratio/rate before the operation is completed, otherwise people would abuse it.
Once the amount of tabs has been collected they'll calculate a ratio that matches what they expected.
they probably already know how much they're gonna give away.

 

[Forstride]

For only 4 days, I'm hoping the tab to donation amount is enough that it will make a big difference. I don't use Chrome, but this is still a really awesome thing they're doing.

 

[Danny600kill]

Just got it, i reopened all my tabs and I'm on 10

This is such a great idea, now I'm helping charities with what I'd do anyway

Google

 

[Delta517]

Good idea by Google!

I would have done it if I had Chrome, but I'm using Firefox.

 

[Invisible Man]

Google has set the max amount they are willing to donate and also limited the amount of tabs which count to the cause per person, per day...

The Charitable Donation

Google has set a maximum contribution of $1,000,000 associated with the Google Chrome for a Cause extension. You agree Google may change this maximum contribution at its sole discretion.


Limit on tabs submitted

Google Chrome for a Cause sets a daily maximum for the number of tabs you may submit, presently equal to 250 tabs per day. You are also limited to accruing one tab per second towards your daily maximum. You agree to abide by these limitations, and will not use multiple accounts, automated means or other methods to circumvent these limitations. You further agree that Google may change these limitations at its sole discretion.

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cause/tos/

When you take into account the $6.5 billion profit Google makes per year their contribution suddenly seems a lot smaller.

I still installed it anyway just to help push Google closer to the $1 million donation.

 

[RupeeClock]

That's a pretty cool idea, i'm a doted firefox user though, I've set up my browsing experience just the way I like it.

Free Rice has a thing too, you install a plugin that lets you search webpages using the Free Rice engine.
Means you aren't using google though, so boo.

 

[FireGrey]

How cool! I'm a chronic tabber, so I could definitely make a significant contribution...
Too bad I got addicted to the latest Firefox Beta.

Firefox Beta 4 is great but it bums me out that it doesn't have support for most plugins, like stylish...

 

[PettingZoo]

How cool! I'm a chronic tabber, so I could definitely make a significant contribution...
Too bad I got addicted to the latest Firefox Beta.

Firefox Beta 4 is great but it bums me out that it doesn't have support for most plugins, like stylish...

I'm always using Minefield for my browsing (Firefox nightly builds, at the moment mainly Firefox 4 alphas/early beta builds), and you can just install Nightly Tester Tools that amongst many tools, allows you to force enable addons which usually function normally, although a few addons here and there require certain updates to function properly with new builds.

 

[Kwartel]

Good go Google