Google Chrome web browser

[Luka_Aveiro]

1)
there is no home button - i could never use this browser here at work as my home page is my personal page for work stuff. and i am always using it
2)
uses MUCH more memory than IE does for the same web pages
3)
its speed is good
4)
i forget what else i didnt like lol




Scrolling XS pages for me is actually faster than IE. Possibly because its caching more items in RAM than IE does ?

You use IE?

[mike8913]

Not even gonna try it until there's adblock for it....

built in and works well

[Helmore]

1)
there is no home button - i could never use this browser here at work as my home page is my personal page for work stuff. and i am always using it
2)
uses MUCH more memory than IE does for the same web pages
3)
its speed is good
4)
i forget what else i didnt like lol




Scrolling XS pages for me is actually faster than IE. Possibly because its caching more items in RAM than IE does ?

There is a Home Button, you can find it through the wrench on the top right corner, then Options and then in the basic-settings or whatever they'd call them in English (using Dutch version here).

[mike8913]

1)
there is no home button - i could never use this browser here at work as my home page is my personal page for work stuff. and i am always using it
2)
uses MUCH more memory than IE does for the same web pages
3)
its speed is good
4)
i forget what else i didnt like lol

1) can be set i the option menu

2)maybe it's just you, i'm at a very low mem usage comparably.

3) agrees

4) i forget too. I guess i can still about how AIM is nyl linked to Gmail and not google talk. My bookmark toolbar also fit more across the top than chrome does. The spellcheck can get a little funky too.

[Logos]

who said any adblocker was built in Just had a new tab opened automatically with 50 adds on it I haven't seen this kinda crap since I stopped using IE years ago (I know, there was no tab browsing in IE then, but full Windows pop ups full of adds )

[MomijiTMO]

It is fast. Yay.

A new process for each tab could be good. Hmm I'll decide later.

[Volkswagen]

sounds promising.

[NaMcO]

A new process for each tab could be good. Hmm I'll decide later.

Deciding about that right now

[Luka_Aveiro]

Deciding about that right now

Lei it get more mature, it will kick ass.

Even if it doesn't, it is open sourced, so Mozilla should get the goodies from it's concept and make their Firefox even better.

This is why copyright shouldn't exist.

[villa1n]

rendering pages its crazy fast... but its still buggy, a lot of buttons on FB dont work :P just says "toggle"

[m^2]

built in and works well

Yeah, right:

[jbartlett323]

i agree that it still needs some work but i think i am gonna use it! makes my internet connection seem decent... always used IE without a problem before (yes i have used Firefox quite a bit and it just didn't give me anything extra i needed or wanted) but this really makes a difference in speed and usability (for a beta). just can't decide if i like the "New Tab" page or if i should just set it back to a standard homepage.

[MomijiTMO]

I'm still using Firefox. I really do love my Noscript + Quickjava especially when over at the horror that is 4chan.

[m^2]

Warning: As usually with google, uninstaller forgets about some files like automatic updates.
So don't install it out of a VM unless you want to actually use it.

[Metric]

Oh forgot to say, can someone please run acid3 on this and give me a screenshot of the result? thanks

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

[MomijiTMO]

Warning: As usually with google, uninstaller forgets about some files like automatic updates.
So don't install it out of a VM unless you want to actually use it.

Oh bloody hell I wish I knew that earlier.

Yeah I failed too. Chrome. . . ..

[ubuntu83]

I'm still using Firefox. I really do love my Noscript + Quickjava especially when over at the horror that is 4chan.

downloading them right now.

[Lestat]

You use IE?

i'll tell you what the memory hog that is firefux rarely gets used.
i dont enjoy opening task manger and seeing hundreds of megs just for a freakin web browser.
which is a huge negative about Chrome, it uses alot of ram when you have multiple tabs running.

There is a Home Button, you can find it through the wrench on the top right corner, then Options and then in the basic-settings or whatever they'd call them in English (using Dutch version here).

yeah i saw it, i was in a hurry at work and didnt see it.

also cant scroll with my laptop touchpad.... wierd

[MomijiTMO]

I seriously think Chrome = Firefox 4.

Hell it's based on Firefox.

[Luka_Aveiro]

i'll tell you what the memory hog that is firefux rarely gets used.
i dont enjoy opening task manger and seeing hundreds of megs just for a freakin web browser.
which is a huge negative about Chrome, it uses alot of ram when you have multiple tabs running.

Read this from page 4 and beyond.
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080901/...osoft-kaa-pow/

also cant scroll with my laptop touchpad.... wierd

you can't do it because your laptop scroller is the equivalent to a smooth scroll (press then move mouse arrow up/down) with the mouse wheel button, and that doesn't work with Chrome, unfortunately.

[hurleybird]

When I run Acid3 it's all over the place. Sometimes in the 70's, sometimes in the 60's. Something really weird is going on with this browser.

[ryboto]

There is no combined forward/backwards dropdown menu.

That's all you had to say, you wrote two paragraphs, and this was all you needed to say. Are you saying that it's something you prefer? Or just mentioning the differences between this and FF?

Press F11 in IE or FF. Maximized windows are still windows, not full screen. Think of running a game in a maximized window vs. not running it in a window.

Well, when I maximize the browser, the only other object on screen is the taskbar, which is quite small...do people really need full screen beyond that?

In any case, lack of scroll-drag is simply unacceptable. A pity, as Chrome seems really ing fast but is all but unusable to me as long as it has that issue.

I have a mouse that has a scroll wheel tilt feature, tilt the wheel to the left or right, it scrolls the page up or down, and it works fine with Chrome. The lack of a scroll-drag is perplexing, but then again I personally never used it, but I can understand the annoyances of a missing feature.

[TheSynth]

I like it. But it's missing some features I adore that Opera has.

I liked the incognito guy so I made an avatar from it.

[Luka_Aveiro]

The lack of a scroll-drag is perplexing, but then again I personally never used it, but I can understand the annoyances of a missing feature.

i find it quite amusing to notice myself pushing the button and then pushing the mouse up/down and remembering "oh, right, this sh1t doesn't work here "

[hurleybird]

That's all you had to say, you wrote two paragraphs, and this was all you needed to say. Are you saying that it's something you prefer? Or just mentioning the differences between this and FF?

Obviously I did need to write two paragraphs to get through to you. My other two attempts where I said "all that I needed to say" you didn't get it, and it was only after I took two paragraphs to explain it to you that you did. And yes, combined back/forward is objectively better than separate back/forward. It makes the interface simpler, and the user can see more data at the same time. There's no good argument to have them be separate.

Well, when I maximize the browser, the only other object on screen is the taskbar, which is quite small...do people really need full screen beyond that?

It's nothing that breaks the user experience, like the lack of auto-scroll, but it is something that would be nice to have. Think web apps/games. If an app has a resolution setting you generally want to go as high as possible without having parts of the app clipped off. Fullscreen mode can be the difference between having the entire app show or parts of it being cut off. Again, a minor complaint but a legitimate one.