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Google Releases Chrome for Mac Beta
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I use a lot of Google services since I have an Android phone. I also use Microsoft Office on my Mac. I was just referring to some around here who ridicule people who use anything other then Apple Inc. hardware or software.
I'm trying it and I like it, I only wish that it had three finger short cuts like firefox, I like to be able to go to the bottom of the page with just a three finger swipe down like I do in firefox. Other than that, so far in 10 minutes of use, seems pretty good and fast like safari, though I prefer firefox as of right now.
Well, I've played around with it, and it is a good fast browser, but I like Safari better!
Anything that is based on WebKit and advances browsers while hurting IE is great by me though!
Knowing Google, I'm sure it is true! I don't like Google knowing so much about so many things either. But then again I would be naive if I thought in the future we will have more privacy and more rights as apposed to slowly having them stripped way!
Anything that is based on WebKit and advances browsers while hurting IE is great by me though!
Ok, I have a question....
What's up with this rootkit that's supposedly installed with Chrome? I've been reading reports around the net concerning an advertisement data rootkit that monitors browsing behavior on the application. Is this true?
Knowing Google, I'm sure it is true! I don't like Google knowing so much about so many things either. But then again I would be naive if I thought in the future we will have more privacy and more rights as apposed to slowly having them stripped way!
About time...
..it took them just 15 additional months to bring Chrome to Mac OS X.
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..it took them just 15 additional months to bring Chrome to Mac OS X.
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Agreed. I have no objection to an app running an update process upon launch - in fact I actually like that - but a process running in the background is a total no-no for me. I've just uninstalled Google Earth on the basis of this information and won't be installing any more google apps until I read they've reversed this policy.
For people who don't see the problem - I have over a 100 apps imagine if everyone of them ran a silent background updater - it'd be a nightmare and inevitably it's a backdoor to my OS I have no control over + it's this crap that eventually grinds your computer to a halt. There are reports of beach-balling on googles forums regarding this unsanctioned little app.
First time I've really been concerned with Google - hope it's not a shape of things to come from them.
Just from opening it up, I can see that we are losing several pixels to the grey bar across the very top of the window...that can go...and the bookmarks bar needs to have an option for favicon only, text only, or both.
I am really liking the Reopen Closed Tab (shft + cmd + t) over Safari's Reopen Last Closed Window.
I am really liking the Reopen Closed Tab (shft + cmd + t) over Safari's Reopen Last Closed Window.
One really disappointing thing:
Chrome's main view doesn't seem to inherit the system-wide services from Cocoa like dictionary lookup (with Cmd+Ctrl+D), spell check (it has its own, but I want my existing dictionary with my custom words available everywhere else on my system), drag and drop is different, etc.
That was a real bummer to me, I was wanting to switch.
Chrome's main view doesn't seem to inherit the system-wide services from Cocoa like dictionary lookup (with Cmd+Ctrl+D), spell check (it has its own, but I want my existing dictionary with my custom words available everywhere else on my system), drag and drop is different, etc.
That was a real bummer to me, I was wanting to switch.
Stick to your slow, resource hogging browser. "Cute" on the outside, but not much inside.
Google Chrome is not the reason I got a new computer. I don't need another browser. Firefox, Safari, and Opera are good enough.
I've seen the handwriting on the wall, Intel apps are the way of the future. I realized that when Snow Leopard was released. Actually I realized it way before then.
Given that they're both Webkit, it's hard to see Chrome outpacing Safari - or being slower than it, for that matter. I believe they have different Javascript engines, though; so "Web 2.0" pages might load differently.
Steve Jobs' reality distortion field has nothing on Opera's.
People make the most outlandish claims about Opera. I've tried it several times over the years (even used it steadily for a while) - somehow I didn't come away amazed... or even particularly impressed.No multi-touch zooming is the first problem since my eyes suck. I know it's still in beta so I'll just have to wait. Another thing that I wouldn't mind seeing added is full screen browsing. I kind of liked that feature on the windows version. Not that it ever really got used but it was still cool.
I love Chrome on windows and (chromium) on ubuntu, but for some reason chrome on mac doesn't feel the same, it seems slower and doesn't integrate well with the rest of the desktop.
Chrome on windows is superfast, I can't think of a faster browser, but I love my firefox extensions too much, (+ the whole open source philosophy behind it) so I'm sticking with FF.
Chrome on windows is superfast, I can't think of a faster browser, but I love my firefox extensions too much, (+ the whole open source philosophy behind it) so I'm sticking with FF.
Apparently Chrome's Incognito feature doesn't keep people standing behind you from seeing what websites you go to.
Eh… what?
Currently, I don't see any reason why you would switch to Chrome if you use Safari 4, besides CPU/memory usage.
Chrome won't display Java. Am I doing something wrong? Can I plug in the Java plug-in manually to Chrome like it can be done in Camino?
Well, Safari is also significantly slower with Flash, than Firefox or Camino.
When I tested Chrome and Safari in Windows 7, Chrome was much more efficient with Flash, than Safari. Even though both are Webkit.
After my testing, I've dumped Safari as my default browser on both platforms, and now use FireFox 3.6 Beta (made up to look just like Safari