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Google Chrome Browser, Google Drive Coming to iOS [Now Available]

Buggy and not as fast as Safari

I was excited to see Chrome on iOS. I've put it on my iPhone 4S and new iPad. I love the look of the interface but there are a lot of bugs (websites, like facebook, not displaying correctly) and the overall feel is not as fast as Safari. Also the placement of bookmarks is a couple button clips too many for me. I need access to them all the time. I do like what they are trying to do and I think with some updates this might be a good Safari replacement on iOS.
 
KnightWRX said:
Unfortunately until Apple exposes Nitro in UIWebView and adds smooth scrolling (doing rendering on a background thread rather than the main thread), no browser on iOS will ever match Safari.
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You seem to be knowledgeable on the topic. Can you give us more information on what the hell is going on here.
 
I was happy about this until I read all these comments... seems like chrome is not that great... I'll have to test drive it myself though. Safari on iOS has always been extremely crashy for me... although it does seem better lately I guess...
 
Muzzakus said:
You seem to be knowledgeable on the topic. Can you give us more information on what the hell is going on here.
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It's covered in Google's FAQ for Mobile Chrome (scroll down for Chrome on iOS) :

https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/faq

As for what is Nitro vs the old JS engine, this is what I know :

iOS 4.3 introduced a new Javascript engine called Nitro. Unfortunately, it seems Apple achieved the levels of performance they did using what is known as Voodoo magic in the programming world : non-portable and probably not very flexible code that happens to run at blazing speed in some scenario but breaks badly in others.

Because of this, they never exposed Nitro to anything but mobile Safari. UIWebView (the UIKit class to embed WebKit in your application) still uses the old Javascript engine which can be as much as 3 times slower on the same Javascript code.

Smooth scrolling seems to just be something Apple implemented in their own rendering control (they don't use UIWebView in Safari, or they use an extended version) and not in the UIkit exposed version. This is probably to give Safari an edge over other iOS browsers.

Since the App Store guidelines are clear that no application may have an embedded interpreter, no one is able to use their own custom UI control to provide HTML/CSS/JS interpretation, they have to use UIWebView.
 
I wanted to let those of you who are using Chrome and ipFirewall know of a conflict between the two apps. Even with the Chrome entry in ipFirewall set to "All Connections", ipFirewall seems to be blocking the iPhone/iPad's ability to "sync" bookmarks. I solved this problem by going into ipFirewall, selecting "Chrome" app and setting the option to OFF in the upper right hand corner. Syncing works.

I wanted to add that I have several URLs in my Global Deny list, any of those URLs could be the etiology of this problem and may not be an inherent conflict between Chrome and ipFirewall. I just wanted to post my solution in case it is helpful to someone.

The ability to have everything synced on Chrome across multiple platforms is very nice. I use several different interfaces and having everything consistent is great.
 
Just replaced Safari on my iOS as it did on my Mac. Hope Apple gives 3rd party devs support for selecting default web browser.

I love Chrome, good job Google!
 
Flitzy said:
Absolutely.

I haven't used Google in nearly a year and I don't miss anything. Anyone who says their search is "superior" is just deluded.
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I think you are the deluded one here...

what do you recommend using other than Google? Please don't say bing because I can give you 100 examples of google being superior to bing by myself
 
I tried it, but to be honest I prefer Safari. I couldn't find anything about Chrome that I liked better than Safari. Chrome is my browser of choice on my PC, but not on my iPad.

I couldn't find a way in Chrome to add frequently used bookmarks to it's bookmarks bar, like what you can do in Safari.

I found Chrome quick enough, but not as fast as Safari.
 
I'm glad Google finally brought iOS a decent Safari alternative. In my opinion the sync feature is awesome as a Chrome desktop user and while it's essentially a skinned Safari the UI is so much better.
 
Just testing it on the old iPad now and I've got to say, it's nice to have all my stuff synced over all my devices now.

I'll see how I get on with it over the next few days.
 
Flitzy said:
Absolutely.

I haven't used Google in nearly a year and I don't miss anything. Anyone who says their search is "superior" is just deluded.
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I used to swear by Yahoo! search, but I've since switched to Google (for over ten years). If there is something better, I'd love to know of it..

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Pompiliu said:
Google is evil!
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Please explain..


The company itself lists the opposite in it's Code of Conduct:
http://investor.google.com/corporate/code-of-conduct.html

Finishing the page with:
"And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!"
 
Oletros said:
No, all I can see is someone lying. Google doens't own a thing.
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Actually, if you read Google Drive T&Cs is quite clearly states "When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."

In contrast, Dropbox states they own nothing you put into Dropbox and have NO right over it. "You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don’t claim any ownership to any of it."

Below are some links that might take your interest:
http://www.google.com/policies/terms/
https://www.dropbox.com/dmca#terms
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/how-far-do-google-drives-terms-go-in-owning-your-files/75228

Consider yourself wrong.
 
JarScott said:
Actually, if you read Google Drive T&Cs is quite clearly states "When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."

In contrast, Dropbox states they own nothing you put into Dropbox and have NO right over it. "You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don’t claim any ownership to any of it."

Below are some links that might take your interest:
http://www.google.com/policies/terms/
https://www.dropbox.com/dmca#terms
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/how-far-do-google-drives-terms-go-in-owning-your-files/75228

Consider yourself wrong.
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At least you should read the links you post.

Right before your quote:

Your Content in our Services

Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.
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Cosider yourself wrong, again
 
Oletros said:
At least you should read the links you post.

Right before your quote:



Cosider yourself wrong, again
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Actually, what I quoted still refers to anything you put within Google Drive.
 
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