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Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

J.D. Meier — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:56:22 -0000

Memory/resource consumption is a big deal for me. My browsers take over my box throughout the day. I haven't tested Chrome yet, but the first thing I'll compare is resource consumption.

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Ilchi Lee — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:59:58 -0000

Ok, I downloaded it yesterday and I like some of the features. Yes it uses less memory, and the break out tabs (VERY COOL), but I have grown dependent on the Firefox Plugins. No way around this.

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Ivan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:38:13 -0000

Unfortunatelly need it to work with internal as well as external websites. Still needs a loooootttttt of work to be nearly as good as IE

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Adithya — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:28:37 -0000

I finally got done with an installation test and a performance benchmark and a browsing test. I am not really happy the way it performed, however I will give the devil it's due in saying that for a Beta it does pretty well based on the system. Long story short, here is what I dug up....

http://verzion7.com/?p=56

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

webtesters — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:22:36 -0000

no wonder why the media create so many brainless people.

the google crap just doesn't work. which one of google's do you find works?

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Christopher Coulter — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:21:00 -0000

Thankfully you like it, now I can breathe easy as I know it's doomed. Crashy, Google Orwellian tracking, spywareish bad software with security holes. Sounds a winner.

In testing: Slow (Opera and IE8 beta are speed demons in comparison), no FF extensions, feels way way undone, all the open source rotting clunk with zero of the benefits. Reminds me a of mobile browser, trying to play in the big leagues, and not that good at that. Fail.

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Joe James — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:45:25 -0000

ok a big con you missed out!!!!

google claims everything you create using the new chrome browser, including e-mails and blogs, so if you wrote this entry using chromes, its not even yours!

check out this blog:

http://tinyurl.com/6dzhzm

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Sciamachy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:12:43 -0000

Oh and Ubiquity! *drools*

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Sciamachy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:08:22 -0000

I like it, but again, Firefox's addons have me hooked. If all the main FF addons get ported to Chrome, I'm sold. I'd need:
Firebug
EverNote
Delicious.com
Digg
...at the least.

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

David Tz — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:56:26 -0000

no RSS feeds in the bookmarks, and no google toolbar? think I'll stick with Firefox. Those are almost basic functions now, let alone no support for FF extensions.

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Ed Bradford — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:45:49 -0000

Google Chrome is nice but it doesn't have mouse gestures and
zoom doesn't work. Opera had full page zoom correctly done 3 years ago.
Firefox only learned it 2 months ago in FF3. IE only learned it last week (IE8 Beta 2). Google hasn't learned it yet.

Why is it that the big browser consortiums can plagerize freely from Opera
and declare their work to be new and innovative? Most of the FF3, IE8 and now Chrome features are in Opera and have been for several years? There seems to be some industry bias against Opera. Why is that?

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Tomi Itkonen — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:57:12 -0000

Have you already read this one:
http://www.google.com/chrom...

"When you type URLs or queries in the address bar, the letters you type are sent to Google so the Suggest feature can automatically recommend terms or URLs you may be looking for. "

You can disable that feature. Anyway, address bar content should not be sent to Google by default.

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Dario Salvelli — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:56:30 -0000

I don't undestrand the EULA: i can't decline the browser's update?

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Stephan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:10:51 -0000

So here are my cons:

Massive security problems:
1) Reports IP back to Google
2) Reports all visited Pages back to Google
3) Gives your PC a unique ID
4) Its easy to start an (evil) java app on your pc, Carpet bomb (see http://raffon.net/research/...
5) To crash the browser simply visit this site http://lists.grok.org.uk/pi...
6) or just type :%
7) Scanns all of your files on the hd. Everything.
8) No stable proxy support
9) GoogleUpdate.exe is omipresent, starts everytime you boot and is not part of the deinstallation, so it stays on you system forever.

And if you want to know what the internet looks like: type about:internets

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Jonathan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:00:05 -0000

Quietly impressed with it so far. It's obviously fairly mature within Google - nobody turns out a version 1.0 this good.

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Sachendra Yadav — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:38:29 -0000

Google’s Chrome is aimed at Windows, not IE

This is no longer about browser but about the an entire marketplace spread between desktop, mobile and web. With Chrome, Google’s taking a shot at Windows, not paltry Internet Explorer

I’ve covered this in more detail on my blog
http://sachendra.wordpress....

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Allen Harkleroad — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:16:22 -0000

Yeah it is fast and luckily we design our websites to work both in FF and IE, so they all look great in Chrome.

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Brett Nordquist — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:05:25 -0000

I'm liking it so far. It's fast and quite stable. I do miss a few of my Firefox plugins though. I wrote up a list of my initial thoughts at http://is.gd/2aiD

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Adithya — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:53:20 -0000

It works pretty nice and in some weird way gives me a feeling that it is a portable browser! I mean, a very small payload on the system and good enough to the job. Asus EE PC Users might love this, a small browser that gets the job done. Either way, I am sticking with Firefox for the time being. I am used to it and I am lazy to make a change in my style.

I got the installation screenshots posted on my site, so if you want to check them out before downloading or installing it, go right ahead. Offcourse, the installation is pretty smooth and fast and you don't actually need a screenshot, I just did it to show that I know how to do a PrtScrn!!!

~Verzion7.com

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Ben — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:25:25 -0000

Well currently for me, no site requiring google account authentication works. They all stop rendering half way through the logo. Is it because I've got a French OS (I didn't ask, it just supposed that I wanted Chrome in French - come on guys. My company bought the PC, they chose the language of the OS. PLEASE let me chose languages myself).

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Prashant — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:04:18 -0000

I think,that's a bit "out of the way" but "great" move by Google to avoid the menu bar from the browser.Only after i used Chrome,i realized how irrelevant the menu bar is....Just the bookmarking thing is ofter used by me from the menu and now i don't even use that coz just a click on the star makes it for me..There will actually be a tough call between Mozilla and Chrome now,But Google is the Winner in any case

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Karen — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:34:11 -0000

I've not tried Chrome yet, but the screen shots show that there's no menu bar. I wonder if Google will be ripped to shreds by the know-it-all geeks for this move the way they ripped Microsoft for removing the menu in IE7 (though it's available on demand). I suspect not.

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Matt Cutts — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:51:30 -0000

"Unclear compatibility."

Robert, I suspect that we'll see a quick wave of improvements (on both web servers and in Chrome) to fix lots of low-hanging fruit on different websites. But Chrome has been compatible and very robust for me.

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Cory — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:25:31 -0000

So far, so awesome. Give me a browser that is efficient with memory usage and I'll (temporarily) give up my extensions. However, I believe that part of the problem in the past with memory usage in Firefox was due to improperly written extensions. At this point, the only disappointment for me is that the touchpad on my HP notebook scrolls down but does not scroll up.

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Martino A. Sabia — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:26:14 -0000

Well it's damn fast and it doesn't hang as his friends IE8, FF3 and Safari does on my old XP machine.

I'm still in love with the fantastic Graphic renderer of Safari, but Chrome rocks for all the rest... and it's reliable, and fast.

I'm not a kind of extension fan, so for me it's not a big deal that Chrome doesn't have (yet) all the extensions ff has. But i think it's only a temporary problem.

BTW for the first time Google has copied something from Microsoft (the domain highlight in the URLs...). It will be a funny time.

Ah... a question: for you Chrome is primary an anti-Microsoft app?