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New Beta of Google Chrome for Mac Now Available

I've been using the dev version of this for a little while and it's quite good. Some plugins still crash, but overall it's a great browser, very clean and simple. There's some nice extensions like being able to see what country the website is located and mail notification, facebook, maps, seo and firebug.
 
Can't use it as my main browser till 1password releases their extension. Seems like they are at Macworld right now. Any new releases for Chrome will have to wait till later. SO impatient :)
Edit: realized that an alpha version has been posted earlier in this thread. Redacted.
 
timdafweak said:
Can't use it as my main browser till 1password releases their extension. Seems like they are at Macworld right now. Any new releases for Chrome will have to wait till later. SO impatient :)
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Did you not read the thread? The extension beta has been out for a month, links has been provided.
 
There are a lot of nice things in Chrome, hoping they make it to Safari. I love Safari, but am stuck due to the Mobile Me bookmark syncing.
 
swarmster said:
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.
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so after apologizing for one lie, you made up another? firefox's urlbar will conduct google search automatically if users do not type in a full url, for popular terms, it will be a feeling lucky search, and normal google search for others.

This has always been the case, in any mozilla internet software since Mozilla M11, back to 1999. "didn't add full-blown internet searching until after google", lol, the absurdity of the statement is astonishing.

so what does firefox awesomebar do? lets count:

1. a drop down menu at end of urlbar give users 15 most visited website
2. feeling lucky for popular keyword in urlbar. type mozillazine and enter will goto mozillazine.org, type macumors and enter will goto macrumors.com directly, type "yahoo map" will got yahoo maps directly, while chrome will only bring you to search page, and more steps before you can reach the websites.
3. click favicon will give you site security information
4. start typing, firefox will give you your history and bookmarks first, while chrome will give you search first. why do you want search? when you know by press enter, firefox will automatically search google? or using feeling lucky? less key press again
5. search bookmark tags
6. allow keyword search, once setup, type "w firefox" will goto firefox wikipedia page directly.
7. one click subscription to RSS
8, filter search result within bookmarks or tags with * or #.

Since you obviously think there are alot of "similarities" between firefox awesome bar and chrome, and one must have rip off the other, its very obvious who ripoff who, right?

Its easy for me to be polite, by stating fact and the thing you know, and letting go those you dont know. and judging from you one lie after another tradition, I can hardly guarantee anything.
 
clevin said:
so what does firefox awesomebar do? lets count:
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Not to mention that there were lots of features similar to this in Opera before Chrome came around.

Chrome Version 5 :eek:

Seems like a solid update and nice to see it developing but the Mac development has been very slow, it must be severely embarrassing by now considering they were embarrassed back in Septemeber 2008 :eek: 17 months later and no final version.
 
xUKHCx said:
Not to mention that there were lots of features similar to this in Opera before Chrome came around.
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opera actually search the whole page for keywords. impressive. again, before Chrome.

Chrome has its advantages, start up speed is most obvious one, but for these fanboys to jump on here claiming google invented everything, which are completely lies, is pure insult to the intelligence of others.

By the way, only real invention google did with chrome are multi-processing and V8. I dont deny anything it deserves, but lets dont go into fairyland here.
 
Corrosive vinyl said:
that mode where it doesn't add things to the history or cookies is a little weird. my automatic thought was the kids being able to look at porn without it being recorded. interesting idea, but where are they going with it?
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I hope you have software in place other than a feature in Chrome to keep the little ones from the pron.

I think it is just another useful feature like Private Browsing in Safari, but better?
 
The browser looks good, but until it allows toolbar customization, I'm not interested. I'll stick with Camino. :)
 
xUKHCx said:
Not to mention that there were lots of features similar to this in Opera before Chrome came around.

Chrome Version 5 :eek:

Seems like a solid update and nice to see it developing but the Mac development has been very slow, it must be severely embarrassing by now considering they were embarrassed back in Septemeber 2008 :eek: 17 months later and no final version.
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I'm going to disagree with the speed of updates. Since they released the last beta, they've been doing weekly dev channel updates. It only took them a little over a month to add extension support, a bookmark manager, and a task manager to the beta.

The Mac version is now almost on par with the Windows version, and I'm sure by summer all three versions (Mac, Windows, and Linux) will be on the same page and the same release schedule.
 
cavemonkey50 said:
I'm going to disagree with the speed of updates.
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I'm talking about the length of time that Chrome is taking in actually being released on the Mac platform. The updates to features at this point appear to happen quickly but over all it has been an age and we are still in beta (but at version 5).
 
Just a note to the admins to avoid using flash content because I can't view it on my iPhone. Flash is dead, long live html5. Apple is moving away from flash, google is moving away from flash and Microsoft is working on their own thing thing. And I hate it because it runs slow as a dry SHlT through a tight ***** on my cheaper puter.

Peace
 
intel said:
Just a note to the admins to avoid using flash content because I can't view it on my iPhone. Flash is dead, long live html5.
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for those websites that have sole target of iPhone, iPT, iPad, yes. but not others, HTML5 video codec problem has not been solved, and its penetration will not go above 10% in next year or two, or three until the situation changes.
 
high cpu usage while scrolling?

Anyone else notice that Chrome has really high cpu usage when you scroll, even for not very complex sites (like this macrumors forum)

Compared to Safari the cpu usage is like triple (~60%) when scrolling although if you do nothing chrome uses very little cpu

Kind of annoying...

Also I don't understand why both safari and chrome don't understand the concept of a sidebar? And while we're at it give us a sidebar on the other side for tabs. I can't be the only one who has more than 5 bookmarks and browses more than 15 webpages at a time. Sidebars make these things visible and easy to navigate /rant
 
Saturn1217 said:
Anyone else notice that Chrome has really high cpu usage when you scroll, even for not very complex sites (like this macrumors forum)

Compared to Safari the cpu usage is like triple (~60%) when scrolling although if you do nothing chrome uses very little cpu

Kind of annoying...
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there shouldn't be any problem if the CPU usage is not constantly 90+%. the standard is if your computer is slowing down, 60% cpu when you operate is normal.
 
Does chrome support @font-face yet? Heard it doesn't .

Personally I'm not for any new browsers that don't have better CSS3/HTML5 support than what's currently available. The last thing we need is more crap browsers dragging down progress with the web.

Now on the other hand, if Chrome pulls out stuff like Multicolumn Layout, or rotation, CSS3 support that no one else does, I'd be on it. Otherwise, meh, who cares.
 
intel said:
Just a note to the admins to avoid using flash content because I can't view it on my iPhone. Flash is dead, long live html5. Apple is moving away from flash, google is moving away from flash and Microsoft is working on their own thing thing. And I hate it because it runs slow as a dry SHlT through a tight ***** on my cheaper puter.

Peace
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well said my friend.

I actually uninstalled flash completely the other day.

The only time I've been tempted to re-install was the something called "logorama" on Facebook and the Dell Mini 5 hands-on on Engadget.

Besides those times, I watched Twit Live using Quicktime X's HTTP Streaming Protocol, new Toy Story 3 trailer in 1080P on Apple's trailers site, plus loads of Youtube videos in HTML5. (bumped into 2 random vids on youtube that weren't available in HTML5/h.264) I'm getting by pretty well without flash in my life. :)
 
Corrosive vinyl said:
that mode where it doesn't add things to the history or cookies is a little weird. my automatic thought was the kids being able to look at porn without it being recorded. interesting idea, but where are they going with it?
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It's also really nice when I'm doing online banking or dealing with anything financial. I used to use Firefox for that and it clears ALL private data when I quit, but now I don't need a browser designated just for that sort of thing.
 
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