Google Chrome Browser

[ginettag27]

ad551 said:

I've tried it a few times now, it is soo fast but there are a couple of annoying small things. You can't double click the tab bar to open a new tab. This is a habit I picked up from Firefox which is hard to drop - why should you have to click a tiny '+' button.

Secondly, Google doesn't quite trust itself...

ROFL!

Although I never knew about the double clicking thing, I always use Ctrl-T

[ad551]

ginettag27 said:

ad551 said:

I've tried it a few times now, it is soo fast but there are a couple of annoying small things. You can't double click the tab bar to open a new tab. This is a habit I picked up from Firefox which is hard to drop - why should you have to click a tiny '+' button.

Secondly, Google doesn't quite trust itself...

ROFL!

Although I never knew about the double clicking thing, I always use Ctrl-T

It's quite useful if you've, er, got your hands full.

[Fetchez la vache]

ginettag27 said:

ad551 said:

I've tried it a few times now, it is soo fast but there are a couple of annoying small things. You can't double click the tab bar to open a new tab. This is a habit I picked up from Firefox which is hard to drop - why should you have to click a tiny '+' button.

Secondly, Google doesn't quite trust itself...

ROFL!

Although I never knew about the double clicking thing, I always use Ctrl-T

Me Neither. File | New Tab for me.

Thats todays fact learned, back to bed

[sstein]

For people using Google chrome, I would recommend going into a Options and tick the box under "Ask for a download location each time".

If you don't it will quite happily download a .exe file from the the URL bar without asking you. e.g. you click through to:

http://www.evilsite.com/evilprogram.exe

Google will download evilprogram.exe to your machine without asking. It doesn't run the program, but I still think it's safer with the feature turned off!! (Asking each time should be default behaviour(sp?)).

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Stuart

Edited by sstein on Thursday 4th September 10:24

Edited by sstein on Thursday 4th September 10:28

[pikey]

Try SHIFT + ESCAPE to find out who's doing what? Useful!

[onlynik]

sstein said:

For people using Google chrome, I would recommend going into a Options and tick the box under "Ask for a download location each time".

If you don't it will quite happily download a .exe file from the the URL bar without asking you. e.g. you click through to:

http://www.evilsite.com/evilprogram.exe

Google will download evilprogram.exe to your machine without asking. It doesn't run the program, but I still think it's safer with the feature turned off!! (Asking each time should be default behaviour(sp?)).

-

Stuart

Nope still happier with FF.

[sstein]

onlynik said:

sstein said:

For people using Google chrome, I would recommend going into a Options and tick the box under "Ask for a download location each time".

If you don't it will quite happily download a .exe file from the the URL bar without asking you. e.g. you click through to:

http://www.evilsite.com/evilprogram.exe

Google will download evilprogram.exe to your machine without asking. It doesn't run the program, but I still think it's safer with the feature turned off!! (Asking each time should be default behaviour(sp?)).

-

Stuart

Nope still happier with FF.

I agree, I will be sticking with FF. I just though it may be useful information for people who are choosing to use Chrome

[paddington]

Fetchez la vache said:

ginettag27 said:

ad551 said:

I've tried it a few times now, it is soo fast but there are a couple of annoying small things. You can't double click the tab bar to open a new tab. This is a habit I picked up from Firefox which is hard to drop - why should you have to click a tiny '+' button.

Secondly, Google doesn't quite trust itself...

ROFL!

Although I never knew about the double clicking thing, I always use Ctrl-T

Me Neither. File | New Tab for me.

Thats todays fact learned, back to bed

I just use middle-click on the home button (or back button to keep the page but go back to search results/directory etc.).

[Morningside]

Just had a good think about this. As it is now on the front page of the worlds most used search engine, we KNOW it is going to be
the most used browser in a couple of years time regardless of how good/bad it is just because of its coverage.

Imagine if the BBC done one, that would also 'sell' as well.

Had another look this morning and still dont like it.

[pdV6]

ginettag27 said:

ad551 said:

I've tried it a few times now, it is soo fast but there are a couple of annoying small things. You can't double click the tab bar to open a new tab. This is a habit I picked up from Firefox which is hard to drop - why should you have to click a tiny '+' button.

Secondly, Google doesn't quite trust itself...

ROFL!

Although I never knew about the double clicking thing, I always use Ctrl-T

I always use a mouse gesture

[Funk]

pdV6 said:

ginettag27 said:

ad551 said:

I've tried it a few times now, it is soo fast but there are a couple of annoying small things. You can't double click the tab bar to open a new tab. This is a habit I picked up from Firefox which is hard to drop - why should you have to click a tiny '+' button.

Secondly, Google doesn't quite trust itself...

ROFL!

Although I never knew about the double clicking thing, I always use Ctrl-T

I always use a mouse gesture

Mouse gestures are brilliant, although I forget some of the more obscure ones..!

[Funk]

DP, sorry..

This may interest some of you - http://lifehacker.com/5044518/enable-chromes-best-...

[Spam]

Ok, I've been trying to use this for a day now whilst experimenting with other browsers

Some annoying points...

If you scroll down using your mouse wheel it wont scroll up the page again you have to use the bar on the right!!

It keeps asking me to install flash on every fking page!! I install it then go to the another page and it does it again.

A key example is this site and youtube. I can't watch any videos on YouTube as it asks for a flash player...So I install it again and it still wont accept it.

I love the basic, easy design but some things are beginnning to fk me off!!

[_Lee_]

Spam said:

Ok, I've been trying to use this for a day now whilst experimenting with other browsers

Some annoying points...

If you scroll down using your mouse wheel it wont scroll up the page again you have to use the bar on the right!!

It keeps asking me to install flash on every fking page!! I install it then go to the another page and it does it again.

A key example is this site and youtube. I can't watch any videos on YouTube as it asks for a flash player...So I install it again and it still wont accept it.

I love the basic, easy design but some things are beginnning to fk me off!!

I don't have either of those problems.

But then, it is a beta so there will be plenty of bugs in there for a while.

[Spam]

_Lee_ said:

Spam said:

Ok, I've been trying to use this for a day now whilst experimenting with other browsers

Some annoying points...

If you scroll down using your mouse wheel it wont scroll up the page again you have to use the bar on the right!!

It keeps asking me to install flash on every fking page!! I install it then go to the another page and it does it again.

A key example is this site and youtube. I can't watch any videos on YouTube as it asks for a flash player...So I install it again and it still wont accept it.

I love the basic, easy design but some things are beginnning to fk me off!!

I don't have either of those problems.

But then, it is a beta so there will be plenty of bugs in there for a while.

I don't believe it!! It's not doing it now!! and I can use youtube etc as for the scrolly thing...it is still happening but I can live with that.

[130R]

I've given this a quick go but unless I am missing something it seems to have almost no features whatsoever? I can't even work out how to get a homepage icon in the taskbar at the top or how to tell it to give focus immediately to a new tab. No adblock, no mouse gestures, no gmail notifier, no flashblock .. no thanks. I'll stick with FF3.

[Frik]

Anybody worked out how to scroll progressively with the mouse wheel?

Bloody thing jumps down the page like a learner with bad clutch control.

[Funk]

Chrome..? What's that then?

I think Chrome's problem is that it's offering features that mean sod-all to the Average Joe, whilst at present not offering the features that they DO want. I also still have immense reservations about Google's intentions - let's not forget, it's ALL about the advertising and I don't trust what Google may or may not do with my personal data and my search history. Google aren't doing it for OUR good, are they?

Forgive me for being a little Tin Foil here, but what would our reactions be if it was a Government-issue browser? Would we be rushing to install it? We would suspect their motives, and rightly-so.

[Strangely Brown]

Funk said:

Forgive me for being a little Tin Foil here, but what would our reactions be if it was a Government-issue browser? Would we be rushing to install it? We would suspect their motives, and rightly-so.

I think it would be safe to say that if it were a government browser, nobody would install it because it simply wouldn't work. Unless it was to rape your bank account and give it all to the feckless scum of course.

[CommanderJameson]

Roop said:

Have had a good play with Chrome. S'OK I suppose in the same way that IE, Opera and FF are all OK, but unless you spend you whole life in front of a web browser and the latest gimmick plug-in or shortcut that saves you a fraction of a second is indispensible then I can't see the benefit.

Back to IE for me. Capitalism rules.

Interesting viewpoint. By any metric - speed, usability, stability, extensibility, standards-compliance, compatibility, you name it - IE is objectively worse than Firefox and Opera.

By all means use whatever floats your boat, but I really cannot understand why anyone would use IE (6 or 7, they're both obnoxious in different ways) in the presence of Firefox or Opera for any website that doesn't demand IE - and on the WWW, that's pretty much none. Intranets are a different ball-game, of course.