Google Chrome

It's fast.

 

Its a web browser ?

 

I like it.

Ah, I found a problem, maybe its my laptop, but I can scroll down, but I cannot go back up.

 

just downloaded it, I don't see what the big deal is....anyone care to enlighten me?

 

I don't think there is supposed to be a big deal about it, It's just like an Ipod, whats wrong with a cheap mp3 player. I like Google products, they always bring something new to the table, but this is just supposed to be a new Beta, just a test, so more of the features may(another problem, cannot bold, it opens a bookmark page, had to do some simple html) be introduced later on.
I do not understand either why some people are saying this is going to kill IE and Mozilla both. Again, some bugs probably need to be worked out. Especially the scrolling, it is just bugging the crap out of me.

 

Posting from Chrome. If it's half as good as gmail, I'll use it almost exclusively.

 

not sure if you guys read the whole web comic on Chrome, but the big thing is:

it's a multi-process browser [not just multi-threaded] -- there's a lot more to it, but for most people, it comes down to this: say you're loading a website that causes the browser to crash -- because chrome is a multi-process browser instead of a single process, multi-threaded browser only that tab will crash, and thus, your other tabs and the browser as a while will remain unaffected. I've tested it and purposely crashed a tab, and the other tabs were unaffected -- this is huge when you're writing a length post or email (or something equally as important) and really can't afford to lose it.

among many other things, it's more efficient with system resources (physical memory and cpu allocation). It's still a beta and there's some things that need to be worked on, but when they start developing and finishing it up, i'll move 100% over. as it stands, it's WAY faster than Firefox. I still use Firefox for pages that have proprietary plugins (that have obviously not yet been adapted for chrome).

For general browsing, it beasts on IE, FF ans Safari. Sometimes it renders pages weird, but a simple F5/Refresh fixes it.

 

hotmail (owned by microsoft) doesn't like Chrome too much. it still works, but not that well.

 

On my FireFox, when my browser crashes, and I open FF again, all my tabs that were open during the crash reload and are unaffected. So no problem for me. In addition, if I'm writing an email, I only use Gmail, and it saves a draft automatically when it crashes. At first glance, I didn't want to try the Chrome because it reminded my too much of IE 7, and I hate it.

FF also has an enormous amount of add-ons, but I'm sure there will be a ton available for the chrome. However, from the post's I've read here and the things I heard on the news, I'm going to give it a try. Even though I don't plan on switching from FF. Why mess with something good?

 

I am using it. It is brutally fast.... but of course, there are no add-ons yet to slow it down!

 

Good to know info. Thanks.

That is true, but it's still a nuisance because the entire window closes. Then it takes a little while longer to load up all the tabs.

I'll wait till the final version of Chrome is released. I still like FF.

 

Firefox on Linux is still way faster than Chrome on Windows. But the multithreading thing sounds very promising.

 

I like. Very similar to FF and Opera but noticeably faster.

 

Another step on the road to Google replacing Windows: now that Google has all basic apps available for free on the web, soon it'll just be an Intel PC with Chrome/etc to run all those web apps.

Downside is, Google owns all of your data and is data-mining 7x24. Interesting times.

 

If that does become a possibility, it wouldn't be a bad idea to buy some Google stock.

 

I think you'll find this optimism already priced into GOOG .

Not sure a free o/s, aka another Linux derivative, is all that much to get excited about. Personally, I don't trust Google's motives, collecting complete usage statistics, and owning all of our data is a dangerous trend, imo.

 

My vista based system will not load chrome. I've tried three times so far.

 

Just another reason to ditch Vista

[Sorry, I couldn't resist - Even though, before anyone else says it, it isn't yet available for the Mac :-( ]

Cheers,
Ian

 

All the more reason to upgrade (downgrade) to XP, is more like it.

 

*cough* Linux *cough*

 

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/03/mozilla-fights-back-with-new-firefox-benchmarks/

 

This just popped up on ZDNet: [Link below.]

It didn't take long, but was, IMHO, to be expected.

Caveat emptor as they say.....

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1847&tag=nl.e550

 

It's a beta after all... finding bugs and security problems is the whole point of releasing it

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/

 

Google tends to leave products in beta for a LONG time.