Google Chrome

[menikmati]

New Google web browser (called Chrome) should be out for beta testing tomorrow. I'm excited.....I usually love anything google does (gmail, maps, earth, blah blah). Of course, nothing wrong with firefox, so its really just another browser to flood the market and make checking web development even more time consuming with checking through ANOTHER browser. But I'll check it out nonetheless.

http://www.google.com/chrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome

[menikmati]

I like it so far.

[thewindowliquor]

Oh shit. Thanks for the reminder. I'm going to d/l this as soon as I get back to work.

[downingthief]

Erik, how is it comparing to Firefox? I can't download it at work.

[amyzzz]

Chrome is my favorite album of all time.

[menikmati]

Biggest difference so far is the memory usage...firefox rapes my computers resources (like 155-200,000k at a time!!! - uncalled for)...Chrome ain't like that all, at least from what I see...plus each tab is treated like its own window kind of, so if one dies it doesn't kill the whole browser (which is an awesome feature - no more huge crashes).

The layout is cool too....I like how tabs are at the very top...it doesn't seem as cluttered as Firefox. Plus I like how Form fields are highlighted so you know when and if it's okay to hit enter or not.

So far I like it...I wouldn't have a problem using this as my default. I can't stand Safari, or IE, or Opera...so it's really between this and firefox, and so far, props to google.

Obviously the biggest reason people will wanna stick with Firefox is because of their extensions they've added on, but those will all come to Chrome in time too.

[downingthief]

Call me Crank.

[downingthief]

Biggest difference so far is the memory usage...firefox rapes my computers resources (like 155-200,000k at a time!!! - uncalled for)...Chrome ain't like that all, at least from what I see...plus each tab is treated like its own window kind of, so if one dies it doesn't kill the whole browser (which is an awesome feature - no more huge crashes).

The layout is cool too....I like how tabs are at the very top...it doesn't seem as cluttered as Firefox. Plus I like how Form fields are highlighted so you know when and if it's okay to hit enter or not.

So far I like it...I wouldn't have a problem using this as my default. I can't stand Safari, or IE, or Opera...so it's really between this and firefox, and so far, props to google.

Sweet. I will have to check it out tonight.

[CuervoPH]

"I've got a nice web browser...
I love to search message boards...
Mama, don't take my Google Chrome away..."

[shakermaker113]

what the hell is this incognito window buisness?

[thewindowliquor]

Yeah, so I just installed Chrome. I'm using it right now. Compared to Opera and Firemox, it is much less resource intensive. The interface is pretty streamlined. It almost looks like Safari. It seems pretty dope though.

[menikmati]

what the hell is this incognito window buisness?

Seems like a cool feature (though it's not new - I think the new IE has it too), so whatever you browse or do in incognito, nothing is logged on your computer at all - no history, temp files, nothing.

[Tylerdurden31]

I'm a fan of the Create Application Shortcut feature

[Young blood]

Seems like a cool feature (though it's not new - I think the new IE has it too), so whatever you browse or do in incognito, nothing is logged on your computer at all - no history, temp files, nothing.

wouldnt your history still be logged on their servers?

[captncrzy]

Some guy in the next cube was shouting "omg, I got chrome, I got chrome" about an hour ago. I was wondering what the hell he was talking about.

[bmack86]

I like it. I like that there's less clutter, as Erik pointed out, than Firefox. The larger page is nice. Less CPU usage is also really nice.

[shakermaker113]

the 'go to first new post' links on threads on this message board don't seem to work in chrome. it always takes me too far down the page.

that's a pretty major flaw if I were to switch over entirely.

I like its ability to resize the text box I am typing in here.

[guest-1185]

Incognito mode... haha... aka. porn mode.

[iv3rdawG]

It takes forever to add a bookmark and YouTube crashed for me. I can't scroll with my mouse 3 button either when I hold it down.

[fatbastard]

Running 2000 at work.

[guest-1185]

I've been using chrome all day and it's noticeably faster than my old browser. I'm quite content.

[cbrl23]

No Chrome for Mac

[guest-1185]

rut-ro

[wmgaretjax]

I sit in OS X and linux most of the time, but I gave chrome a test whirl on my XP partition and it's pretty nice. Very elegant and fast as fuck. I'm excited for it to move out of beta and drift over to os x and linux.

[guest-1185]

Chrome is fancy stuff for me, fast etc. (I was using internet explorer) Linux is so out of my league.

[wmgaretjax]

Linux is so out of my league.

People say that, but there are varying degrees of linux immersion. Some versions are about as easy as windows or os x, some are a total pain in the ass.

[captncrzy]

I'm running Chrome at work; I love that it saves your commonly visited web pages on the home page so all I have to do is click on the picture. Not noticing any speed difference though.

[SFChrissy]

It takes forever to add a bookmark ...I can't scroll with my mouse 3 button either when I hold it down.

I'm having these issues also...I don't like the size and font...everything looks kinda wacky...

[SFChrissy]

buttons on this board are rearranged in chrome...

[orbit]

firefox rapes my computers resources (like 155-200,000k at a time!!! - uncalled for)...

yeah, and since i instaled ff3, it has been crashing more often. but i think that's more because the 15 tabs i keep open at a time and don't close for days.

if you type "about:%" in chrome, it will crash the whole browser, not only one tab. and no adware extension is a fail. hopefully they will fix all these things soon.