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Google Releases Chrome for Mac Beta

Anybody know when we might expect color management? I love the overall feel but I need right colors!
 
I see through the thread that several others have complained about the lack of PowerPC support. I guess there's a lot of dead people here. :D

If it annoys you that much, just skip those pages & posts.
 
ChazUK said:
Did you know the address box is also the search box?
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yeah i did. the reason it sucks to have one box for search and addresses is that the computer must decide whether or not you're searching or typing in an address. For example, say you're typing in "mac rumors" in your search bar. the computer won't know if you mean you're searching for a site that has rumors about macs or if you're searching for www.macrumors.com.

that's why this system sucks.
 
Speedy, Flashy, but Beta

First impressions were great. Speedy loading of pages, Flash playback faster as well showing a ~50% FPS increase over Safari on this page. However no quicktime song playback on iCompositions showing only a black bar instead of the controller which could be an HTML issue as to how QuickTime items are embedded but idonno (works in Safari & FF).

Also, are searches done in the address bar? seems to work but seems cumbersome when wanting to review last search terms. I'd prefer a search bar like in Safari, FF, and others. Maybe I just missed the config options?!
 
philbeeney said:
What.!!!! No PPC version. :(
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It's because of V8, the Javascript compiler. It compiles JS directly to assembly language, which is machine-specific. I looked, and V8 is thousands of lines of code, and would take significant effort to be able to generate PowerPC ASM. That's not to say that I might not try it at some point, especially if I got in touch with others who are enthusiastic about the idea.

V8's performance is so good, it would breathe new life into old PowerPC machines.
 
DoNoHarm said:
yeah i did. the reason it sucks to have one box for search and addresses is that the computer must decide whether or not you're searching or typing in an address. For example, say you're typing in "mac rumors" in your search bar. the computer won't know if you mean you're searching for a site that has rumors about macs or if you're searching for www.macrumors.com.

that's why this system sucks.
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works fine for me, typed mac rumors and it searches for mac rumors!!!
if youve already visited this website which im sure you have;) you will see the link to it underneath as soon as you start typing, aint that hard really:cool:
 
HyperZboy said:
I see through the thread that several others have complained about the lack of PowerPC support. I guess there's a lot of dead people here. :D

If it annoys you that much, just skip those pages & posts.
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Or if you have a computer science degree, contact me and we'll look into adding PowerPC code generation to V8. It would be one hell of a thing to put on a resume!

I still use PowerPC machines at work every day. They are plenty fast enough unless you run crap code like Flash. That's why I blocked flash in Safari. It was like getting a new computer.
 
checking it out right now, I really like the PC version so hopefully this one is just as good
 
objc said:
Or if you have a computer science degree, contact me and we'll look into adding PowerPC code generation to V8. It would be one hell of a thing to put on a resume!

I still use PowerPC machines at work every day. They are plenty fast enough unless you run crap code like Flash. That's why I blocked flash in Safari. It was like getting a new computer.
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There you go. A proactive solution. Nice to see.
 
Povilas said:
Scrolling is better in Safari. On my cuurent setup Safari also uses less RAM and CPU. Speed is about the same for both Safari and Chrome. Chrome still needs a lot of polishing.
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Ouch, I was gonna try Chrome on my Mini (w/Leopard) but if it has worse RAM usage than Safari, I'm steering clear. On my MBP (Tiger w/4gb memory) I see Safari (v4.0) constantly consuming gigabytes and gigabytes of my hard drive if I leave it running for a few days. It'll eventually chew up everything it can find and I'll have to reboot to get it back. Is Chrome this memory/swap hungry?
 
objc said:
It's because of V8, the Javascript compiler. It compiles JS directly to assembly language, which is machine-specific. I looked, and V8 is thousands of lines of code, and would take significant effort to be able to generate PowerPC ASM. That's not to say that I might not try it at some point, especially if I got in touch with others who are enthusiastic about the idea.

V8's performance is so good, it would breathe new life into old PowerPC machines.

Or if you have a computer science degree, contact me and we'll look into adding PowerPC code generation to V8. It would be one hell of a thing to put on a resume!

I still use PowerPC machines at work every day. They are plenty fast enough unless you run crap code like Flash. That's why I blocked flash in Safari. It was like getting a new computer.
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Oh, you are so right about Flash on PPC, what a disaster and it just keeps getting worse and worse. That's one thing I'd almost like to see Adobe just KILL on PPC! And for it to die a horrible death in general.

I don't have a compsci degree sadly, just have taken lots of compsci classes, so I'm not up for that daunting task you just described.

But as to some other points about Chrome and PPC, why Linux & not PPC?

"Companies have, mostly based on web server statistics, estimated that the desktop market share of Linux range from less than 1% to 2.14%. "
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux)

If PowerPC is dead, where does that put the health of Linux?
I don't know exactly where the PPC market share numbers are, but they can't be too far off of those numbers.

I think it's kind of insulting that Google is not fully supporting a significant portion of the Mac community, yet is supporting the low market share Linux desktop market.

The people here on tech sites like this are not indicative of the general Mac market since most Mac users are not on tech sites just like most PC users are not on Tomshardware.com. So obviously, more people here than the general Mac population are more likely to have the latest & greatest hardware and be tech elitists & power users.
The average Mac user keeps a Mac much longer than PC users and longer than probably most people on most Mac tech website forums like this. So it's more a valid criticism than tech power users here would have you think.

Even I have an Intel Mac now. I'll try the Chrome browser out, but I doubt I'll use it every day because I won't be able to use on all my PPC Macs.
 
HyperZboy said:
Oh, you are so right about Flash on PPC, what a disaster and it just keeps getting worse and worse. That's one thing I'd almost like to see Adobe just KILL on PPC! And for it to die a horrible death in general.

I don't have a compsci degree sadly, just have taken lots of compsci classes, so I'm not up for that daunting task you just described.

But as to some other points about Chrome and PPC, why Linux & not PPC?

"Companies have, mostly based on web server statistics, estimated that the desktop market share of Linux range from less than 1% to 2.14%. "
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux)

If PowerPC is dead, where does that put the health of Linux?
I don't know exactly where the PPC market share numbers are, but they can't be too far off of those numbers.

I think it's kind of insulting that Google is not fully supporting a significant portion of the Mac community, yet is supporting the low market share Linux desktop market.

The people here on tech sites like this are not indicative of the general Mac market since most Mac users are not on tech sites just like most PC users are not on Tomshardware.com. So obviously, more people here than the general Mac population are more likely to have the latest & greatest hardware and be tech elitists & power users.
The average Mac user keeps a Mac much longer than PC users and longer than probably most people on most Mac tech website forums like this. So it's more a valid criticism than tech power users here would have you think.

Even I have an Intel Mac now. I'll try the Chrome browser out, but I doubt I'll use it every day because I won't be able to use on all my PPC Macs.
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Linux isn't a dead platform. There are fewer and fewer PPC users every year. The only direction for PPC use to head is DOWN. Linux, however, is alive, current, and under constant development.
 
Doesn't display videos created by Quicktime X's save for web feature

I noticed Chrome doesn't display the videos created by Quicktime X's save for web feature. Now both Firefox and Chrome on both Window's PC's and Macs do not display these videos when embedded using Apple's recommended code.
 
star-fish said:
Who uses bookmark managers tied to a browser any more? That's what delicious and the hundreds of other similar sites out there are for.

I'd be annoyed if I couldn't access my home bookmarks at work, or wanted to show my friend a video I found randomly (on their computer), or access my bookmarks between laptops, or access my faves at my parents' house - and couldn't. What would you do if your computer completely died?
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I completely agree - that's primarily why I have stuck with Firefox over the years by using Foxmarks (now called Xmarks since it can sync other browsers).

I love it when someone takes a browser so personally as to defend it as the "best" compared to the others. Just use whichever one you personally prefer the most. I welcome new innovations so as to inspire new developments in current "standards."

That being said, I love Chrome for Windows due to speed and light memory footprint. As far as the mac, I will use the new Chrome until I find enough problems to return to Firefox. As much as I wanted to like Safari, I personally found my web pages performing better in Firefox and until recently, Xmarks did not support Safari.
 
Slightly OT:

Which is the Safari extension/plugin that puts a list of bookmarks in thumbnail format down the side of the browser (OmniWeb style)?

I post on MR via NetNewsWire's built-in browser and I love the thumbnail tabs. :eek:

EDIT: nevermind, it's SafariStand. ;)

EDIT: Looks bad and doesn't play nice with the Evernote plugin. Bye bye, SafariStand.
 
DoNoHarm said:
yeah i did. the reason it sucks to have one box for search and addresses is that the computer must decide whether or not you're searching or typing in an address. For example, say you're typing in "mac rumors" in your search bar. the computer won't know if you mean you're searching for a site that has rumors about macs or if you're searching for www.macrumors.com.

that's why this system sucks.
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Not if you have MacRumors as a bookmark or if it's in your history. That's the way it was on Windows, anyway. I'm yet to try Chrome on the Mac.
 
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