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Google to Launch Webkit Based Web Browser Called 'Chrome'

I personally don't like the tabs on top of everything.

I tried watching some youtube videos with Chrome and the comments don't seem to work if you try to click "view all comments"
 
slicecom said:
:confused: Have you even looked in the options? You can add a bookmarks bar and a home button, and the picture you posted HAS A HOME BUTTON!
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i obviously overlooked it. yes, but home button is the only one that can be added. its even much less than safari, actually.
 
Personally, I love it so far. Obviously there are some glitches, as is to be expected from a Beta, but it's LIGHTYEARS better than Safari on Windows. I'll probably switch to Chrome as my main browser at work.
 
Slow and ugly.
Firefox is still faster at loading Google's own content (GMail, Page Creator, etc.)

Took nearly 30 seconds just to load GMail. Even after multiple attempts.

Nice idea, but still needs a lot of polishing.
 
Personally, I just don't trust Google with all that power and information they can easily collect from you. Their agreement for downloading essentially says they can do whatever they want with the data that goes through their browser. So, if you want Google spying on your every move online, this is the browser for you!
 
i always "allow" websites i want manually... chrome does not have such feature... FAIL.

i am not using a browser that allows random cookies ( especially rick-rolled moments ) to infiltrate me.

also... i must have addons.

overall... this browser is what i'd use when playing games in order to alt-tab and not crash.
 
rjohnstone said:
Slow and ugly.
Firefox is still faster at loading Google's own content (GMail, Page Creator, etc.)

Took nearly 30 seconds just to load GMail. Even after multiple attempts.

Nice idea, but still needs a lot of polishing.
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I'll give you ugly, but slow!? This this is blisteringly fast for me. Gmail loads in just over one second.
 
rjohnstone said:
Slow and ugly.
Firefox is still faster at loading Google's own content (GMail, Page Creator, etc.)

Took nearly 30 seconds just to load GMail. Even after multiple attempts.

Nice idea, but still needs a lot of polishing.
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Works great for me. Even using the slow PC. The separate processes thing is definitely useful. Gmail loads quite quickly. Even has a spell checker! Love how quickly it opens. The UI is quite nice and simple. I'm impressed. And I love the task manager! Too bad they don't call it an activity monitor, but oh well. :D

Now is that feature in the comic working? The one where websites cannot write or read anything on your hard drive? I hope so. I also hope for a NoScript, FlashBlock, and Adblock Plus in the future.
 
For me its pretty much like Safari. The navigation bar, speling check, detachable tabs, resizable fields... thats what I noticed so far... But it is expected since both ate based on WebKit :)

But the point is that Google have done a excelent job, they got the better of Safari and Firefox and improved it, in my opnion.
 
If they make it so it has better theming...I'm sold. This thing is amazingly fast. My Wakoopa page, is painfully slow in FireFox 3 and is super fast in Chrome.
 
On the browser now

I'm leaving this comment from the new browser now (on my mac partition) and it seems to be okay. I don't know if I prefer it or Mozilla, but we shall see.
 
rjohnstone said:
Slow and ugly.
Firefox is still faster at loading Google's own content (GMail, Page Creator, etc.)

Took nearly 30 seconds just to load GMail. Even after multiple attempts.

Nice idea, but still needs a lot of polishing.
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I like the application shortcuts for gmail/gcal/docs etc, you can place on your desktop. When you launch them, it removes the address bar etc, to make it feel more like a native application.
 
Works great and is quite fast. I love the simplicity. Just hoping for a Mac version soon. Only found a few problems so far... One being that an embedded flash popup on a website I maintain is not working. Well, it opens but it's very tiny and can't be resized like it can in Safari/FF/IE. Submitted a bug report :rolleyes:
 
Brendon Bauer said:
Works great and is quite fast. I love the simplicity. Just hoping for a Mac version soon. Only found a few problems so far... One being that an embedded flash popup on a website I maintain is not working. Well, it opens but it's very tiny and can't be resized like it can in Safari/FF/IE. Submitted a bug report :rolleyes:
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I hope they tell you to diaf for using a flash popup.
:rolleyes: :p
 
citi said:
I like the application shortcuts for gmail/gcal/docs etc, you can place on your desktop. When you launch them, it removes the address bar etc, to make it feel more like a native application.
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I'm having trouble doing that. How did you do that?
 
I tried it in a virtual machine, and it's VERY fast. It seems to even be faster than Safari, and that's just in VMWare. Can't wait until the Mac version comes out.
 
thesdx said:
I tried it in a virtual machine, and it's VERY fast. It seems to even be faster than Safari, and that's just in VMWare. Can't wait until the Mac version comes out.
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I'm a die hard Safari fan, but I have to admit, Chrome is faster or at very least on par with everything I've tried so far.
 
citi said:
you have to select "create application shortcut" while you are in the application (like gmail). Then a window pops up asking you if you want it on your desktop, start menu, etc.
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Now that is nifty! So is the Opera like thing it displays on a new tab. I just wish there was a way to edit it.
 
Mindflux said:
I hope they tell you to diaf for using a flash popup.
:rolleyes: :p
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No you don't understand. I'm not being malicious lol. :cool: It's for a church website and to play the sermons online you click a "Play Video" link and it pops up a little window with the sermon in flv format so you can resize it, etc and keep browsing in the background.

Trust me, as a web designer I absolutely hate popup windows, but this was the best way to do it.
 
Anybody playing with a Mac version of this browser yet? I just registered for the updates on the Mac version, but I haven't seen any screenshots or heard of anybody using a Mac version (yet)
 
WardC said:
Anybody playing with a Mac version of this browser yet? I just registered for the updates on the Mac version, but I haven't seen any screenshots or heard of anybody using a Mac version (yet)
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It doesn't exist yet, but after playing with it on Windows, I can't wait for the Mac version!
 
Maybe you guys who think it looks ugly are using it in XP, or a Vista virtual machine without acceleration. If on your machine it looks like the solid blue one at www.google.com/chrome, then I agree.

But in Vista glass, I think it looks great!
 
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