Safari has had this feature for years, Mozilla recently added it to Firefox, and I'm not sure but I bet Opera has this mode as well. And yes, it is considered "porn-mode" by most people.
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Safari has had this feature for years, Mozilla recently added it to Firefox, and I'm not sure but I bet Opera has this mode as well. And yes, it is considered "porn-mode" by most people.
I like to tabs on top. Great feature, because it saves space on small monitors. Smart Apple skipped this feature.
I don't think that's right. The Awesome Bar was introduced with Firefox 3, which Wikipedia tells me was released on 17 June 2008. The first beta of Chrome was released on 2 September 2008.
you guys making such ignorant lies, its disgusting.
Chrome was first introduced in Sept of 2008, Firefox had awesomebar developed and released in public as 3.0a8 back in Sept of 2007.
and not to mention, awesome functions are so much more, and useful than chrome's urlbar.
plus, if you obviously don't even know what awesome bar was, then stop making imaginary statement filled with lies. "Most people think chrome works better?" what most people? you?
I can't believe people like these spreading lies so easily here. what do facts mean to you guys? fart?
Your ISP knows way more about what you do online than Google does. Who do you trust more?
Be careful with that extension. It sends all PDF's clicked in the browser to Google Docs to display. The problem is that is sends it through the internet to Google unencrypted (http instead of https). So don't use it to display any PDF's that has personal information like SS#'s, credit card numbers, checking acct #'s, etc, etc. I think this is a big flaw and the developers of this extension should warn people about it.
I've been using Chrome as my primary browser for a few weeks now to see if I can make the switch. I'm finding it much more enjoyable to use than Firefox and Safari. The only reason I ever used Safari in the first place was to view PDFs in the browser, but now that Chrome has that capability, I really don't need it anymore, and I've just grown tired of Firefox.
Still waiting the 1Password support.
Yeah--I am pretty much totally dependent on 1Password now.
I'm loving Chrome, and the update does seem nice so far.
I do have a quick question though. The top bar used to be a Grey color, which I liked very much. Now after the update it's a Blue color, a nice shade of blue but I'd rather it be grey, for less eye distractions. Does anyone know of a way to change the color back ?
Thanks
I do have a quick question though. The top bar used to be a Grey color, which I liked very much. Now after the update it's a Blue color, a nice shade of blue but I'd rather it be grey, for less eye distractions. Does anyone know of a way to change the color back ?
Thanks
At last a decent Mac browser that offers extensions without being Firefox. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes out of the Chrome extension community in the near future.
It might even make me switch from Safari.
It might even make me switch from Safari.
Infinitely better than that god-awful Safari that crashes on me at least 5 times a week(and also much faster than Safari). Much better ad blocker in this than in Safari too. Good job, Google. Bad job, Apple.
WTF are you talking about? If you're clueless, don't respond. The people that make adblock for Firefox made an Adblock extension for Chrome and it works great.
Not true. There is an Adbock extension for Chrome. But it is not from the same developer at the one for Firefox. But they both use the same bocking list and share some of the same code. But it is a good ad blocker, including Adthwart too.
WTF are you talking about? If you're clueless, don't respond. The people that make adblock for Firefox made an Adblock extension for Chrome and it works great.
Not true. There is an Adbock extension for Chrome. But it is not from the same developer at the one for Firefox. But they both use the same bocking list and share some of the same code. But it is a good ad blocker, including Adthwart too.
Have you even used Chrome? Adblock works great (and I think is made by the same people who make it for the other browsers) and flash runs a lot better than on Safari. Additionally, each tab being it's own process means the generally crappiness of flash won't take your entire browser down anymore.
I've been running the developer preview for months now and it works great.
+ Motorola + Copyright holders + etcChrome's Adblock extension is NOT from the same developer that makes Firefox's extension. But Chrome's Adblock is still good. I actually like Chrome's Adthwart extension better Chrome's Adblock extension.
It's the same as the Private Browsing in Safari.
Anyone else notice that Google claims Chrome will be "snappier?"
At my school they've been experimenting with Chrome both on PC and Mac and there are many sites that are still buggy with Chrome. But hey, competition is good.
Ah, I see AdThwarte uses the same engine as Adblock Plus on FF.
I'm not sure the developer really matters anyways.
lol, wow, okay. I was about to apologize to ebow, who politely brought up the possibility that I was too rash in my statement earlier. But I didn't realize the issue was so offensive.
Firefox had something called an "awesome bar" in their alphas before Chrome released, but it wasn't until later with extensions and especially with 3.5 that they started catching up on the features in Google's Omnibar. It still hasn't caught up completely, if you really want to fight about it.
The "awesome bar" as you're talking about was a bookmark and history search. It didn't add full-blown internet searching until after Google did it. To my knowledge it still doesn't do key-by-key internet searching. Then you can look at Google's other features like key-by-key Google Suggest results, and the related intention-prediction and context-sensitivity Google's well-known for, that the "awesome bar" doesn't do.
There are even UI things like highlighting the most likely choice automatically so you don't have to arrow down like in Firefox that still has Chrome ahead of the game, in my opinion.
So while there are technical reasons why Chrome's bar is better, I will admit that saying "most people" is never a good idea - I apologize for that; I was in a rush. However, there are many people who find Chrome's bar more useful than Firefox, including tech writers from - off the top of my head - PC World, PC Mag, Lifehacker, eCommerce Times, Cnet, writers for the New York Times, etc. All I can say is I've had the impression that in general people that have used both prefer Chrome's bar. And I'd agree. That's all.