Google Chrome

[herpsky]

chrome is slower than firefox. weird.

[Mihalis]

Chrome is obviously going to catch on as it will be the web browser for google's operating system 'Android' .

android is googles mobile os which afaik runs a simple ui on top of webkit, it isn't a desktop os

dont get me wrong, i love google and most of their services. i just don't see this browser being popular...

[Scais]

google should have learned from youtube, if your shit doesnt do as good (google video) y dont u just buy the better one? (youtube). they should just buy the entire mozzilla company.

[LaiShin]

chrome is slower than firefox. weird.

weird indeed. Chrome is way faster for me.

It's pretty damn good for a 1st release imo. Since it's still in beta phase, I'm gonna refrain from using it for other than browsing purposes.

[Quiver]

I was reading the comic strip posted along with Chrome's release yeseterday. Pretty informative and sounds good in theory...got up to page 25 or something and gave up though. For now FF does just fine.

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-cant delete most visited on startup which sucks specially after porn

Apparently they have something called an Incognito tab which is supposed to address this.

[suremanok]

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95464&hl=en

Apparently they have something called an Incognito tab which is supposed to address this.

[Tisswat]

For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for example, to plan surprises like gifts or birthdays, Google Chrome offers the incognito browsing mode.

You perverts!

[notesee]

I use Opera for OSX, it loads up sites faster than Firefox. But my main issue is that it has a problem with some Flash websites, which is really annoying.

I've been lazy about moving all my bookmarked sites from Opera to Firefox so I can use the latter as my default browser again.

[mrip]

HOW CAN YOU BROWSE!

[Tyro1]

CRITICAL ERROR IN GOOGLE CHROME!!!

I just negged clopek for not posting his drunk video, but the browser took me to another window to do it...

MESSING WITH DA REP?!!?!!?

case closed

[Magsåvningsreserven]

I use Opera for OSX, it loads up sites faster than Firefox. But my main issue is that it has a problem with some Flash websites, which is really annoying.

I've been lazy about moving all my bookmarked sites from Opera to Firefox so I can use the latter as my default browser again.

how dare you, you used opera and want to go back to ff?!

seriously though, i'd stick with opera, im using the 9.6 beta and it's the best thing - ever. Most of Chrome's best features are opera influenced imo anyways..

[homeboy]

I've just scanned through the thread quickly. I'm a very happy FF user, is Chrome worth downloading? What are the benefits over FF?

[Osmosis Jones]

There was an article on digg.com which was about how all the features you get through Chrome, you can get through Firefox add-ons. The speed difference is almost negligible and I hate how Chrome looks.

Not saying it's bad, just going to be hard to get used to. I like my FireFox, been with them since the start.

[poly800rock]

considering google IS the web advertising business, there is no way they'll make an adblock for chrome. I need to downgrade to firefox 2.0 again, this 3.0 business sucks

[ogre]

still waiting for a good, FULL answer.

Firefox makes its money via a royalty agreement with Google. Every time you use the Google search bar in Firefox, Google kicks back some money to them. Last I heard, they had revenues in the neighborhood of $70 million a year from that alone. I think that's probably motivation enough for most companies to try to dominate the browser game.

For a company like Microsoft, though, $70 million is barely a drop in the bucket, so it's probably just to protect their dominant position. Plus if they keep people using IE and tailor the experience of the browser to drive people toward using Silverlight and Live Mesh, that'll create the opportunity for a new revenue stream if/when Windows/Office starts to dry up.

[lovethrust]

it fails because it doesn't do firefox plugins like adblock as someone already said. I would go to any website on it and I saw ads, I haven't seen any ads since I properly set up adblock and noscript in firefox. The skin is also ugly.

I did like the address bar showing the google search results as well, but that will probably get made into a firefox plugin anyways

[LaiShin]

I've just scanned through the thread quickly. I'm a very happy FF user, is Chrome worth downloading? What are the benefits over FF?

Chrome set-up file downloads in 1 sec.

if u're heavily reliant on plug-ins, u should just wait it out. Some minor bugs and it makes you wonder how secure a beta version can be....Otherwise, chrome gathers everything great from other browsers into itself. It's made for minimalist too.

[romeoso]

chrome seems pretty stable and very quick, but lacks a lot of features.. no decent bookmark management or rss! plugins would be nice..

chrome isn't much of a memory hog on my computer.. i do like that you can see which site is taking up the most memory, so you can close the right tab.. the resizable text area is kind of an interesting feature.. more of a gimmick, though.

[nictan]

im using it right now and i must say its pretty impressive. but just some minor areas they need to improve on. 'eg. the 'back' button doesnt have an arrow to show the past few pages you visited.'

[brohymn]

im using it right now and i must say its pretty impressive. but just some minor areas they need to improve on. 'eg. the 'back' button doesnt have an arrow to show the past few pages you visited.'

Hold the back button to see them

[nictan]

oooooooooooo. didnt realise it. thanks. anw. chrome is really alot faster then IE and firefox for me. no idea why though. no complaining.

[yupsterism]

am i the only one who's extremely annoyed that when i put the chrome to full screen mode, my taskbar doesnt want to pop up even when i scroll to the bottom of the screen.

aside from that bug, the other thing i dont like about chrome is that the bookmark and history dont appear on the sidebar.