The Google Chrome Thread

[GFX-Help]

http://www.google.com/chrome

What does everyone think? I like the idea, but it's going to need some work before I start using it. I will say that it's very fast, and the separate thread concept seems to have some advantages as well as disadvantages. I had to stop using it because whenever I try to open the options it crashes.

On a side note, they apparently made a mistake in the privacy terms which scared off a bunch of people from using it. They have corrected the mistake and made the appropriate modifications.

[felgall]

Most people are probably best off waiting until the public release - the current version is an early beta and so a lot will change between now and then. IE8 is much closer to being ready for the public than Chrome is at the moment.

[Early Out]

It's certainly fast on my aging PC (6 years next week), but until it incorporates some plug-ins, it's not really ready for prime time. I'll stick to FF3 for now. I really like the "most visited pages" feature - very handy! On the other hand, the bookmarks list is in the wrong place, so that folder menus open to the left, which is clunky. I couldn't find any way to move it.

One other thing that I really don't like is that if I mousewheel-click on a link, it opens the link in a new browser tab, but doesn't change focus to that tab. If I'm opening a new tab, that's where I want to go! So, it needs some user options.

I was just happy that it didn't clobber my software (http://matrix.jefftucker.org/) - I wasn't looking forward to trying to accommodate the weirdness of yet another browser!

[GFX-Help]

I only did minor testing, but it seems to be up to par with css, html etc etc. I like that it can use the focus attribute with form elements, although aside from safari most browsers can't so it's rather pointless. I'm interested to see if they will integrate gmail, analytics, and the other common google utilities when the final release comes out.

[siguie]

It's nice and speedy but it still has a few minor issues with commone programs like the javascript for phpBB2 fora :rolleyes:

For a beta it is nice though :)

[mhJr_]

I only did minor testing, but it seems to be up to par with css, html etc etc. I like that it can use the focus attribute with form elements, although aside from safari most browsers can't so it's rather pointless. http://www.avxf.com/img18.jpg I'm interested to see if they will integrate gmail, analytics, and the other common google utilities when the final release comes out.

I am also highly interested to see if google will implement gmail, analytics, webmaster, GC etc.

The only issue I've had with chrome would be it crashing while streaming video/audio. (youtube/nuTsie)

IMO they could have picked a better logo besides a stylish looking simon says. (or a pokeball) Lol.
http://www.xconomy.com/wordpress/wp-content/images/2008/09/simon-chrome_nocaption-180x89.jpg

Setting chrome to your favorite search engine for default searching is such an amazing feature. Instead of typing 'google.com / yahoo.com / live.com' you can type your query in a blank address bar and it'll browse your favorite search engine for you.

Does google plan on releasing the toolbar with chrome via final release?

[Early Out]

Setting chrome to your favorite search engine for default searching is such an amazing feature.Really? IE6 could do that, and the FF search bar is a lot more flexible, letting you choose a different search location on the fly, like IMDB or a dictionary.

[felgall]

Some people just don't realise what a given browser can do until fifteen years later when another browser comes out that does things slightly differently.

All Google have really changed compared to the other browsers is to do away with the second search box so that everyone does their searches from the same field rather than some using the address field and some using the search field.

That means that they have made things a lot LESS flexible since with IE4 etc you can always change the settings in your browser to turn off the automatic search from the address field if you don't want it trying to search for what you typed if you intended to type an address.

[GFX-Help]

IMO they could have picked a better logo besides a stylish looking simon says. (or a pokeball) Lol.
http://www.xconomy.com/wordpress/wp-content/images/2008/09/simon-chrome_nocaption-180x89.jpg


I'm glad someone else noticed as well lol

[Korr]

I'm pretty happy with FireFox and I really don't like being a freebie beta tester for new technologies. I guess I kind of don't get the "early adopter" mentality because even if it is a great new piece of software it won't be at its full capacity until some plugins have been published and some security issues discovered and patched up.

My main hope is just that Chrome uses some sort of proper CSS rendering so I don't have to go back in and re-code all of my sites every time a new browser version comes out.

I really really wish someone would get some cooperation among the browsers (I'm looking at you IE6-8!) so that web pages can be more consistent with users using different software.

[mhJr_]

Really? IE6 could do that, and the FF search bar is a lot more flexible, letting you choose a different search location on the fly, like IMDB or a dictionary.

I had no idea you could do that with IE6 or even FF. I am currently using FF and I don't have any complaints really. Unless I have up 15+ tabs and forget o close some before I exit. :P

The only reason I knew/found out that chrome allowed that was because it's in beta and I was checking out the options. =|

I am going to look for that options, thanks for the tip.

[bobdog]

Oh goodie...another browser for me to check when writing my css...can't be any worse than IE...Microsoft cornered the market on buggy web browsers.

I haven't downloaded it yet. I'm not going to develop web sites in a beta version of Google Chrome.

[areidmtm]

From my experience, Chrome renders pages exactly the way FireFox does.

It's a nice browser, but I don't think they take the market away from FireFox.

[GFX-Help]

From my experience, Chrome renders pages exactly the way FireFox does.

It's a nice browser, but I don't think they take the market away from FireFox.

The only issue I've noticed so far is when you tell a class to not have text decoration it still puts an underline if it's a link and FF, IE6, and IE7 don't.

[alemcherry]

Really? IE6 could do that, and the FF search bar is a lot more flexible, letting you choose a different search location on the fly, like IMDB or a dictionary.

Yes, the search engine bar is the biggest disappointment as far as I am concerned. Used to searching google, answers.com, wikipedia etc quite easily with firefox search bar and that is a pain on chrome.

Also all new google innovation looks like their ultimate interest is to collect as much personal information about user as possible, as they can show the most appropriate ads. It is a pity considering that the most appreciated point about google was that they were more concerned on the quality of search at a time when everybody was selling their top results. These days, they have become really profit motivated and actually worse than m$.

[bluejerry]

The only thing I like about Google Chrome is its graphic designs. Function wise, it can't even have its own tool bar installed - not right tool for a stumblers like me.

Anyhow to respond on the Chrome's logo, here's another funny linkage I found on the Internet, I think it's even better! :)

http://www.cypherhackz.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/chrome-logo-elements.jpg