Google Chrome Browser

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Frederick

5,694 posts

219 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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Add me to the install, try, uninstall crew! Firefox, IE and to an extent Safari have it right, by not trying to reinvent themselves.

I can't get on with Chrome's layout, and the bloody crappy object explorer/xml explorer thing that pops up on every page pissed me off within 5 seconds!

Back to Firefox...

Edited by Frederick on Tuesday 2nd September 20:51

R360

4,316 posts

205 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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Im using this now, i like the simplistic basic look and it seems to be faster then IE

Kinky

39,455 posts

268 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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Much faster on XP than FF3, and also with DNS cacheing option turned off.

Just need an ad-blocker add-in now yes

Funk

26,254 posts

208 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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Already installed and uninstalled. Very unimpressed, nothing beats FF3 at the moment IMO.

Noger

7,117 posts

248 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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I think it is a refreshing change to have something so clean. Not completely sold on the style.

Whilst it is faster than IE7, it of course doesn't do half the stuff I want it to do, so won't replace anything too soon.

But a decent effort for a beta nonetheless.

Chris Type R

8,018 posts

248 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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Like what I see - it needs an Adblock equivalent though. Slightly slower than FF3 (for me).

Like the distinct activefocus box and window resizing of memo boxes.

Incognito works wink

Need to try and hunt for some developer / API info.

Lord Snot

6,627 posts

213 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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Funk said:
Already installed and uninstalled. Very unimpressed, nothing beats FF3 at the moment IMO.
Mozzarella Sea Monkey is quite good.

To be honest I don't know if there is any point in trying Google Chrome when it comes out for Suse - FF3 runs quick enough (with Suse 11.. have not tried FF3 with Vista yet)

dern

14,055 posts

278 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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I like it a lot... nice and simple and it's definitely faster than ff for me (xp).

Russ35

2,491 posts

238 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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Likes.
. Tabs - like the way you can drag them into a new window.
. Incognito - not that it makes much difference as there is only me that uses this computer.
. The little grab handle that allowed the test box this message was typed in be resized (bottom right hand corner of the text box)


Dislikes.
. Tabs at the very top - I use objectdock toolbar, any more than 2 tabs and they are covered by the toolbar. In FF there is a setting that allows you to put them to the bottom of the browser.


Unsure.
. Speed - BBC seemed very fast, but local newspaper (http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/) slower than FF, but that could be down to the adverts etc that I have blocked in FF


Requirements.
. Some of the more common FF add-ons (pop-up blocker etc)
. Bookmark manager
. Bookmark window toggle


dern

14,055 posts

278 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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Russ35 said:
Likes.
. Tabs - like the way you can drag them into a new window.
Didn't know you could do that... having two monitors I like that feature very very much indeed.

JohnnyPanic

1,282 posts

208 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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I actually use IE7 as my main browser. I'm a web-developer for a design agency (and have been for a while). Most of my stats show that 75% of people use IE, and that 2/3 of those use IE7 (the rest mainly being IE6). I find it useful to see the web as the majority of users do.

Naturally I also use FF, Opera and Safari for dev and testing on a number of platforms. If Chrome isn't going to play fair and adhere to the standards properly I'd rather it didn't exist! But it's early beta days so we'll see how it goes.

I'll give it a chance but if FF couldn't tempt me as a main browser I'd be surprised if this could.

JohnnyPanic

1,282 posts

208 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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I do quite like the built in task manager though

sstein

6,249 posts

253 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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Im going to download and try it now, pity there is no linux version yet. Firefox on linux is buggier than a very buggy thing. I think its clever to have each tab as a new process, when youtube crashes in a tab in Firefox it hangs the browser! (obviously)

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Stuart

_dobbo_

14,327 posts

247 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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No ad blocker? No thanks.

And since google is mainly ad funded, who wants to bet it will be a long wait till Chrome gets a decent one?

sstein

6,249 posts

253 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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My only concern is do I trust google to have their browser on my machine. I would never install something like google desktop..

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Stuart

mft

1,752 posts

221 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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So far so good - it renders well (as it would, with Webkit on board) and it takes up less vertical screen space than Firefox. It's going on my Advent ASAP smile

I've found my first bug, though - when you select a word in a form, then click the right-button on it towards the upper half of the selection (but still over it) it often moves the area of selection to elsewhere - most odd! smile

Edited by mft on Tuesday 2nd September 21:33

Funk

26,254 posts

208 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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sstein said:
My only concern is do I trust google to have their browser on my machine. I would never install something like google desktop..

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Stuart
We share common concerns. There was no EULA to read when I installed. I've since cleared out the registry since uninstalling as well. Googlechrome was still trying to gain firewall access even after uninstall (subsequently denied).

Perhaps my paranoia is reaching extreme levels, but I also run 'Track-me-not' in Firefox..

http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/trackmenot/

Edited by Funk on Tuesday 2nd September 21:37

Russ35

2,491 posts

238 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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_dobbo_ said:
No ad blocker? No thanks.

And since google is mainly ad funded, who wants to bet it will be a long wait till Chrome gets a decent one?
Chrome is open source so shouldn't be to long before there are mods about - hopefully.

It's definitely a long way from being a replacement for either IE or FF but for a light weight, simple browser it's not bad.

Seems to play Windows media, Real Player and Flash without extra stuff needing to be installed. Early versions of FF were a pain to get them to play embedded media.



FunkyNige

8,859 posts

274 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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Google Help said:
Your search - block adverts - did not match any answers in this Help Center
DELETED!

_dobbo_

14,327 posts

247 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2008
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I only installed it to see how some of my websites render.

The fact that without asking it's installed an updater which is now relentlessly trying to get out to the internet does not bode well. Why does the updater need to run in the background at all times - why not just run when it launches like Firefox does?