Google Chrome

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I still use FF 2.0.0.16 ... and before that I was using a a build in the early 1.x series :lol:

 

On the plus, it's nothing compared to the number of hits from IE5 I still around the place.

[Dracion1]

Disregard my previous comment. Google fixed up the EULA so that they no longer claim to own your material.

 

 

 

See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7597699.stm

[Nadril]

 

I like the "stats for nerds" button. It even lets you compare memory usage between google and other browsers. :P

[D. V. Devnull]

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/897/lolgooglezy3.png

 

I like the "stats for nerds" button. It even lets you compare memory usage between google and other browsers. :P

 

Bright Side: If a tab messes up, at least you can knock it out without calling "Windows Task Manager" and having to figure it out the hard way. :P ... I would call that an improvement over something like... *gulp* ...FireFox. :( ... Although, FireFox could use a memory breakdown feature like that. I wonder if such exists as an extension for FireFox. :-k

 

 

 

Unluckily, Chrome doesn't have certain things yet. I'll be watching, but I'm doubtful. Especially with how they reacted to plugins in their little comic. :XD: ... At least FireFox took better to it. 8-)

 

 

 

~D. V. Devnull

[ClareJonsson]

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/897/lolgooglezy3.png

 

I like the "stats for nerds" button. It even lets you compare memory usage between google and other browsers. :P

 

Bright Side: If a tab messes up, at least you can knock it out without calling "Windows Task Manager" and having to figure it out the hard way. :P ... I would call that an improvement over something like... *gulp* ...FireFox. :( ... Although, FireFox could use a memory breakdown feature like that. I wonder if such exists as an extension for FireFox. :-k

 

 

 

Unluckily, Chrome doesn't have certain things yet. I'll be watching, but I'm doubtful. Especially with how they reacted to plugins in their little comic. :XD: ... At least FireFox took better to it. 8-)

 

 

 

~D. V. Devnull

 

Dear Mr Devnull,

 

We are all aware of how you're against change and how you poo poo ideas opposed to your final order. I for one have supported you on certain subjects and still do when you are correct and make sense,

 

Unfortunately I feel at the moment you are being very negative about a potentially awesome development and may I say you are talking out of your arse sir....

 

 

 

If you ever talk about technology again please note that technology = progression, whether it be silk worms that spawned the invention of binary cards via the silk industry or the latest audio encoder bringing us smaller sized audio files. Do remember that progression brought us where we are today. Please don't stick to something because you know it, please embreace something new and run with the rest of us, learn and view the wonder of what is!

 

 

 

I.E Stop being a nut and get with the program!

[Nadril]

I don't really see how you think that google would be so against plugins or anything like that, DVD. The only thing they really mentioned about them is how they work with the rest of the browser.

 

 

 

Google is really bent on being sure this is as open source as possible.

[InkofDeath]

To be honest I just can't wait till Google releases some kind of O/S that can 'somehow' beat out Linux in terms of size, accessibility, and speed. I give it 7-10 years. :lol:

 

 

 

Having a lot of fun looking at the source code even if I have no idea what I'm looking at, at times. :wall:

[D. V. Devnull]

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Dear Mr Devnull,

 

We are all aware of how you're against change and how you poo poo ideas opposed to your final order. I for one have supported you on certain subjects and still do when you are correct and make sense,

 

Unfortunately I feel at the moment you are being very negative about a potentially awesome development and may I say you are talking out of your arse sir....

 

 

 

If you ever talk about technology again please note that technology = progression, whether it be silk worms that spawned the invention of binary cards via the silk industry or the latest audio encoder bringing us smaller sized audio files. Do remember that progression brought us where we are today. Please don't stick to something because you know it, please embreace something new and run with the rest of us, learn and view the wonder of what is!

 

 

 

I.E Stop being a nut and get with the program!

 

Sorry for the pessimism, Clare... I'm not really out to kill stuff, just question it until there's no more to be questioned. :anxious:

 

 

 

BTW, if I didn't live with parents who are paranoid over giant new pieces of software, I might have dived in and checked all this out myself. (Sure would have left me not-so-nitpicky.) Instead, I just get to be miserable and live in a mental 'cave under a rock' for now... :| ... So, enjoy! :

 

 

 

~D. V. Devnull

[krisc6]

I really really really wnated to like this browser to the point that i would use it as my browser of choice but i havent liked it as much as i like firefox.Ok its beta but my gmail still says beta on it so google set standards of releasing an almost feature complete program and eventually iterating on it.

 

 

 

I love the idea of trying to create lightweight apps for the internet especially because of how americas getting bandwidth caps and it looks like this can easily translated to a phone without ripping out features.

 

 

 

Ill keep it installed just in case there are some major updates but im going to stick with firefox, for now.

[sloter]

I really really really wnated to like this browser to the point that i would use it as my browser of choice but i havent liked it as much as i like firefox.Ok its beta but my gmail still says beta on it so google set standards of releasing an almost feature complete program and eventually iterating on it.

 

 

 

I love the idea of trying to create lightweight apps for the internet especially because of how americas getting bandwidth caps and it looks like this can easily translated to a phone without ripping out features.

 

 

 

Ill keep it installed just in case there are some major updates but im going to stick with firefox, for now.

 

I kind of have the same feelings about it i jsut like fore of the features in firefox than chrome. That is another good point look how long Gmail has been a beta. How long will chrome be a beta? Not that i have anything against google at all. I do use gmail and i do have chrome installed.

[krisc6]

I really really really wnated to like this browser to the point that i would use it as my browser of choice but i havent liked it as much as i like firefox.Ok its beta but my gmail still says beta on it so google set standards of releasing an almost feature complete program and eventually iterating on it.

 

 

 

I love the idea of trying to create lightweight apps for the internet especially because of how americas getting bandwidth caps and it looks like this can easily translated to a phone without ripping out features.

 

 

 

Ill keep it installed just in case there are some major updates but im going to stick with firefox, for now.

 

I kind of have the same feelings about it i jsut like fore of the features in firefox than chrome. That is another good point look how long Gmail has been a beta. How long will chrome be a beta? Not that i have anything against google at all. I do use gmail and i do have chrome installed.

 

I dont think it matters whether it always has that beta tag on, your always going to be tweaking and refining the productso i suppose they can get away with it wheras if GTA4 came out with a big beta sticker on you would get some outcry.Most of the press about it though is that this is google coming one step forward to releasing a OS, and OS which is always connected to google and centred around google, a menubar mod for xp happened like this where you typed what you were looking for it would also throw up a web search.Theres better examples but thats the concept in theory.

[ClareJonsson]

Well it's been around for a few days now and we seem to have a lot of pro and anti users. But for a product that's brand new and is still Beta it's kinda kewl. I have found some problems already and reported them to Goggle, I hope you do the same as that's the point of a Beta; to release it into the wild and then have bug reports, if you use a Beta version of anything then you should understand this concept and report back accordingly.

 

 

 

Spell checker doesn't seem to work correctly on vista, right clicking on a red highlighted word doesn't suggest any corrections on my PC, but does on my XP boot, Runescape has the same problem as IE on my PC (White screen of nothing on full screen), I would like the option to set home page for new tabs. I would love a drop down arrow to list recently visited websites on the address box instead of having to partially type it.

 

 

 

I'm sure things like this will be addressed and added or at least as an option or someone will write an extension, who knows, I might even write some myself :)

 

 

 

Addition: Home page button should be visible by default. Home page is something I use a lot, especially if you can't set what a new tab defaults to.

[Captainkidd]

I've had it for a little while now and I've only found a couple things that would be nice if it were changed.

 

 

 

- I wish that the "middle/wheel" button would work for scrolling.

 

- Also a clipboard feature built into the browser would be awesome!

 

- Better handling on downloaded files

 

It seems if I click on the little tab at the bottom it cancels my download, VERY annoying.

 

 

 

Other then that I think it's great, I'm still not uninstalling Firefox until the final realse of chrome comes out and web services start making pugins made for it.

[Sbrideau]

Well, I downloaded it and am trying it. Looks neat and has all the features it needs.

 

 

 

Things I like about it, is the view source code thing, I will probably be using it to look at it when I learn to code webpages, also the fact that the browser is light and all. I also like the task manager, as it has been said, no need to go to windows task manager. That browser is going to be great competition to the others.

 

 

 

I will still use Opera though, that's my favorite browser, even if I still use Firefox for a lot of things. Also what Dracion quoted would be something that will, most probably, keep me off of chrome most of the time.

[Sbrideau]

Anyone got a pop-up from their antivirus saying it had a trojan.generic in it while trying to install? I was on my laptop today and decided to download it for the laptop too, so I think it's odd that having the same antivirus on both computers and only having it poping up on one with one day difference of download.

[Doomster]

A couple of negatives, one temporary, one permanent.

 

 

 

1. They used an older webkit version in the beta, so it has the "carpet bombing" vulnerability.

 

 

 

2. It has the annoyware "google updater" - I hate background updaters, they are so unnecessary.

[evil_mumm_ra]

the google updater updates the phishing/malware database it uses to automatically tell you if it's a known bad site you are trying to access.

[dsavi]

but then internet explorer strikes back with version 8!

 

Oh no! Firefox is screwed!

 

Anyone who thinks that IE has serious capability for taking over the Firefox user base is wrong. IE is years behind Firefox.

 

And as a web designer, I hate IE. It doesn't render anything correctly, and isn't web standards compliant. Take a look for yourself, use IE6 and switch the forum theme to TIFblack.

 

AARGH! Now you see why I keep a portable installation of Firefox everywhere I go.

[sloter]

but then internet explorer strikes back with version 8!

 

Oh no! Firefox is screwed!

 

Anyone who thinks that IE has serious capability for taking over the Firefox user base is wrong. IE is years behind Firefox.

 

And as a web designer, I hate IE. It doesn't render anything correctly, and isn't web standards compliant. Take a look for yourself, use IE6 and switch the forum theme to TIFblack.

 

AARGH! Now you see why I keep a portable installation of Firefox everywhere I go.

 

I have had it where the css only works in IE before. For the most park though IE has the most issues though i will go there with you.