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google chrome?
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:43 am
by Bfowler
so now thats its been out a little while...
who's using it?
like it?
for me its about as fast as FF3, but uses about 1/3rd the memory.
i like that almsot everything is built in however my 1 complaint is...
google chrome doesnt have google toolbar...
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:13 am
by fuzzysnuggleduck
I'll try it when they release the OS X version.
I do like the idea of tabs being separate processes though. One misbehaving tab/website doesn't bring the whole browser crashing down.
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:17 am
by Bfowler
^SHIT. YES.
forgot about that. can't tell you how nice that is
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:24 am
by Francious70
Enh, still doesn't look good enough to make me switch from FF2
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:59 am
by stipud
You don't even use FF3?
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:56 pm
by Francious70
Nah, I didn't like the new URL bar, and it really started to eat up precious resources. As it is every time FF2 is doing ANYTHING other than sitting still it maxes my CPU out and glitches.
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:57 pm
by fuzzysnuggleduck
Weak.
I like FF on Linux, but I refuse to become too attached to any extensions.
Fucking NoScript seems like it has an update EVERY TIME I launch FF.
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:34 pm
by rlockwood
chrome seems to use more memory than ff2 did.. its pretty nice. What is google toolbar? I like their auto-complete and search functions in the address bar. And I enjoy the tabs at the top, makes for a bit more viewable space.
ive found quite a few webpages dont seem to function quite right with chrome though, including the forums here. the text box i'm typing in doesnt properly delete and has other issues that didnt happen in ff2.
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:04 am
by Bfowler
i noticed that too! i thought it was them trying to be "helpful"
i will have to do a comparison back with ff2 now.....
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:02 am
by denim
I have used it since release. Runs fairly well for me. Faster then FF and Opera (a little).
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:27 pm
by VW337
Ditch google chrome rock the hacked version- SR ware IRON
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
Google Chrome without the call home BS.
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:01 am
by joyride
There is actually a lot of things that went into chrome that surprised me. It uses the same rendering engine as Safari (WebKit), but the it is the java application that really sets it apart. It processes javascript much faster than FF, and IE is out of the running. This is said to give way to more advanced applications, adding to Googles idea of data cloud computing.
Its just too bad that it isnt working for me because Symantec Endpoint doesnt like it (probably something to do with the 'sandboxing' in Chrome)
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:09 am
by bretti_kivi
^^ you should try using real security software
Chrome is not available for me, I use work machines and we just upgraded to FF3.
Bret
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:58 pm
by joyride
trust me, I hate this stupid symantec crap. I had an edition from my school that was great. Didnt use much resource, and blocked a lot. I reformatted, and then found out that they switched to this new endpoint garbage.
Also, the original developers for Chrome were all from mozilla. They actually were worried that it was a conflict of interest when they were developing Chrome.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:21 am
by denim
Nice find, I will try it out here soon.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:13 am
by mhyde71
Does anyone know how to have all your favorite show up in chrome, versus just the most recent... i.e. like with IE, you can go to fav's and drop down the entire list to choose from.. anything like that in Chrome???
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:08 am
by denim
You can drag and drop your favs in the bookmarks bar (just below the tabs).