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Google Chrome, have you tried it yet?

Discussion in 'Other Off Topic Forum' started by LUV 4REZS, Nov 16, 2008.

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  1. LUV 4REZS

    LUV 4REZS Formula Junior

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    We are trying it as I speak, pretty basic so far, but it looks like it could go a long way. I may even think of giving up FF for this one......
     
  2. agup48

    agup48 Two Time F1 World Champ

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    Been using it since it launched. It loads up way quicker than Firefox, I never use IE, unless I need to download a new browser. :D
    There's a thread in the Tech Toys section.
     
  3. SPEEDCORE

    SPEEDCORE Four Time F1 World Champ

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    Been using it every day since launch! It is light weight compared to FF but that's good in many ways! For just simple browsing and day to day sites.

    It has afew bugs like certain sites don't work as intended but I still use FF for those times.

    The top 9 sites most visited is a nice feature to get to your fav sites quickly when you open a new tab. Tabs use separate memory so it one page crashes it doesn't bring everything down, only niggle are the tabs are easy to break off the main bar.

    It's now my fav browser :)
     
  4. LUV 4REZS

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    Sorry about starting another thread...... I downloaded it the other day, pretty quick so far, but it's like one of the guys said in the other thread, "They haven't started adding add on's to it yet." I am still keeping FF on hand, just in case, but IE 7, not a chance with that. I like the Live Search!
     
  5. Zahiba

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    I began to use it when it first came out, I liked the speed and the simple layout. But one thing that really pissed me off, and eventually put me back to Firefox was that the scroll function on my trackpad doesn't work with it.

    But if they fixed that... :D
     
  6. LUV 4REZS

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    We were looking at it today and checking out some of the features. I love how you have a favorites section for you're favorite videos, the only thing I don't like about that is you can't sort them in folders. It is a lot easier to bookmark sites now. I wish they would give us another toolbar though, that would help a lot. The simplicity of it makes it great!
     
  7. LUV 4REZS

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    So the scroll doesn't work on you're laptop?
     
  8. GuyIncognito

    GuyIncognito Nine Time F1 World Champ
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    I too have been using it since it came out. Overall I really like it, haven't had the scroll problems some have, but I find that is occasionally picks fights with Shockwave (esp. in youtube) and also isn't supported by some websites with lots of java, but that's few and far between.
     
  9. Zahiba

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    Just the scroll on the trackpad ( the touch sensitive "mouse" equivalent ). It was a real pain because that's the one I use most.

    That said, the page up, page down keys and the arrow keys all worked fine to scroll.
     
  10. avalys

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    This basically the same browser as Apple's Safari browser, without the improved font renderer that Apple provides.

    I didn't keep it around for long.
     
  11. agup48

    agup48 Two Time F1 World Champ

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    Yeah, I had that problem, but now it seems like it is fixed. I also had some weird problem (fixed now) where, if you wanted full screen with the Start menu, it just full screened it and I couldn't see the scroll bars, and the address bar. But it's fixed now, and I think it was them just doing their test on full screen, but they don't have it still so, I dunno. :D
     
  12. Zahiba

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    Reeeeally!? I'll check 'er out again then! Thanks :)
     
  13. agup48

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    I don't know how long it has been fixed, but it annoyed me so much to have to use page up or the arrows to scroll up. The scroll down worked perfectly before though, so it was weird, I thought it was just me. No problem, maybe try to clear your cookies, and/or reinstall Chrome. Mine just started working out of the blue or I just didn't notice. :D
     
  14. AntonyR

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    not out for Mac
     
  15. LUV 4REZS

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    I would think that was something to do with you're computer instead of the program itself, right? I mean think about it for a second, if you had a problem scrolling then it would be the whole program in general, right? That's the way that I would look at something like that and for it to just fix itself, I would say it was something on you're computer.
     
  16. agup48

    agup48 Two Time F1 World Champ

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    Probably, but it could be a bug. It did it since I had it, but I didn't really mess around with anything on my computer like my mouse settings, so who knows. :D
     

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