Google Chrome Browser

[beanbag]

So far....

- Slower
- Terribly unstable
- Not a patch on FF3

Still needs A LOT of work.....still, it's beta so there are many more updates before the next release.

[Funk]

_dobbo_ said:

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?

You've just caused me to check my running processes and what do I find there....? Yup, googleupdater.exe! This is despite having closed and uninstalled the browser entirely.

Christ, just fired up WinPatrol and it's added:

* ActiveX control
* Scheduled Tasks entry

Nasty bit of kit, especially as I'VE UNINSTALLED IT...!

[sstein]

Funk said:

_dobbo_ said:

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?

You've just caused me to check my running processes and what do I find there....? Yup, googleupdater.exe! This is despite having closed and uninstalled the browser entirely.

Christ, just fired up WinPatrol and it's added:

* ActiveX control
* Scheduled Tasks entry

Nasty bit of kit, especially as I'VE UNINSTALLED IT...!

Why isn't that a suprise!!!

-

Stuart

[Funk]

sstein said:

Funk said:

_dobbo_ said:

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?

You've just caused me to check my running processes and what do I find there....? Yup, googleupdater.exe! This is despite having closed and uninstalled the browser entirely.

Christ, just fired up WinPatrol and it's added:

* ActiveX control
* Scheduled Tasks entry

Nasty bit of kit, especially as I'VE UNINSTALLED IT...!

Why isn't that a suprise!!!

-

Stuart

I've also just manually removed over 30 registry entries.

Installing that thing was a mistake. Should've known.

[Morningside]

Posting using Chrome...
VMWARE comes in very handy for testing the great unknown

Just one question....Why do we need another browser?

[Strangely Brown]

The majority of people here who are installing it, deciding it looks nasty and then uninstalling it are completely missing the point. The good stuff is all under the surface. Read the comic strip on the technology behind the scenes. It's really rather good. Roll on the Mac version.

[sstein]

Morningside said:

Posting using Chrome...
VMWARE comes in very handy for testing the great unknown

Just one question....Why do we need another browser?

We don't, but what we need is Mozilla to incorporate the good points of chrome (tabs as separate processes etc) though

Wonder how long google will keep feeding Mozilla with the $$$$$$ if they now have a competing browser??

-

Stuart

[HRG]

You big bunch of negs... It's beta FFS

[ginettag27]

I've tried it (using it now) it does work surprisingly well and I like some of the features they've added in, they work well, but I kept on trying to do things that I've added on to FF and wondering why I couldn't, so it will be back to FF for me.

[jimbo_m]

Just downloaded and so far so good- noticeably quicker than IE7 and i like they layout, very easy to use and get used to.

[HRG]

And if it's beta it'll still be full of debugging code so it's gonna get quicker

[Swilly]

I'm chroming..... have i just invented that term

It is spell checking this as i type too

[CR0X]

I like the simple layout. I don't like the most visited pages though, why not have the same thing as Opera or fast dial in FF3?

I like the tabs being in the title car, it looks so so much better.

I am sure that it will only get better, so quite excited really.

[Funk]

Swilly said:

I'm chroming..... have i just invented that term

It is spell checking this as i type too

Something Firefox has done for ages..!

[mft]

Funk said:

You've just caused me to check my running processes and what do I find there....? Yup, googleupdater.exe! This is despite having closed and uninstalled the browser entirely.

Christ, just fired up WinPatrol and it's added:

* ActiveX control
* Scheduled Tasks entry

Just wondering... is that after a reboot?

[HRG]

The Hun & Redtube incognoto... I'm sold

[xiphias]

Er Incognito has been around for yonks in safari.

[J111]

Firefox import - froze
BBC iPlayer - Shockwave plugin error
Adverts - apparently the internet is full of them. Who knew ?

bks to this.

[PJ S]

xiphias said:

Er Incognito has been around for yonks in safari.

They did say they've taken bits/aspects of what's out there already and implemented them - Private Browsing being one, and moveable tabs being another.
The nine "thing" looks a bit like what Cuil does for its search results.
Gotta say though, the Windows style look really doesn't do it any favours - I would imagine the Mac version will look less cluttered.

[beanbag]

I've thrown in the towel.

What a load of tripe that was. It dragged my PC down to crawl at times, although I'm not sure how since Firefox uses about 4 times as much memory whereas Chrome was running on about 40MB!!!

Keep in mind I have 4GB of RAM on my machine (well 3.5MB)

I'll wait until the next release and install on Virtual PC, thank you very much. Not trashing my PC set-up again!!!!