Google Chrome

*Clicker* · 09-02-2008, 01:38 PM

Who else is trying Google's browser?
http://www.google.com/chrome/index.h...tm_campaign=en

*monochrome* · 09-02-2008, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by Clicker

Who else is trying Google's browser?
Google Chrome - Download a new browser

So what.

I use Firefox.

Retrocamera.net · 09-02-2008, 01:47 PM

Whish I could, it's only for Windows yet. Nice at least that they said that they are working hard on Mac and Linux-versions. When wichever one of these is released, I will certainly give it a try.

*Clicker* · 09-02-2008, 01:51 PM

As of 30 mins on it, not bad, pretty clean layout and nothing has crashed thus far

Retrocamera.net, knowing Google, i'd say by year end they should have the other OS covered as they've been working on this years prior to the comic book leak.

RBellavance · 09-02-2008, 01:56 PM

I'll probably give it a try when they release a Linux version.

MrApollinax · 09-02-2008, 02:30 PM

The browser is very similar to Opera which is what I have been using for years. The only thing that piques my interest is handling of tabs as seperate tasks in task manager. Chrome handles tabs exactly like Opera does with that one exception. Otherwise there is nothing else there that makes me want to try the browser.

*daacon* · 09-02-2008, 02:33 PM

Compelled by the various vendors that supply us applications to use IE ....i have netscape / Firefox as well - however honestly 98% IE use.

dave sz · 09-02-2008, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by monochrome

So what.

I use Firefox.

probably not for long. Google was a big backer of firefox. Now that they have their own browser, firefox might be left in the dust...

raz-0 · 09-02-2008, 04:06 PM

I had to test it for compatibility with teh web apps I have written and/or run at work. I also gave it some tire kicking to see if I like it. The EULA is pretty much a killer as far as I'm concerned though.

Negatives:

-For all of the promo material's talk about haivng fast javascript for new generation web apps, it's AJAX compatibility sucks. IT is worse than Opera's, and that officially puts it at the bottom of the barrel as far as ajax compatibility. It's implimentation of it's broken javascript IS fast to load and execute though, but is pretty much only meaningfully noticable on pages riddled with intellitext and junk like that.

-For all their talk about efficient memory, the MINIMUM footprint I found to load a page is about 17MB. Want 10 pages up, at LEAST 170MB. SOme pages spawned a process about 40MB in size. For all their talk about traditionaly "single threaded" browsers being memory inefficient, I compared it to my instance of opera running for 5 days straight with about 25 tabs open, It was up to about 190mbs due to memory creep. Chrome beat that at the 10 page mark. It is NOT memory efficient.

-Didn't like the quicktime like downloader as installer. I'd like to be able to scan an executable I'm installing for viruses and the like. This way you can't as the executable you will be running is not on the machine until it is ready to be executed.

-Don't like the terms of service, which claim that ANYTHING you transmit through the thing google has a right to use without limitations. This is important to pretty much everyone, especially anyone who likes to think you have a say in how your photographs are used. I'll note that picasa is a google property, and they do not claim ownership of your works simply for using that software. Their license needs to be edited for sanity.

Positives:

-It renders pages blazingly fast. Slightly faster than opera 9.52. Which is pretty impressive unless it is caching pages ahead.

-The CSS implimentation appears to be pretty tight and rendered everything I tested correctly. So it deals with quirk implimentations pretty well.

MrApollinax · 09-02-2008, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by raz-0

-It renders pages blazingly fast. Slightly faster than opera 9.52. Which is pretty impressive unless it is caching pages ahead.

Have you tried against the latest snapshots? The most disappointing thing about Opera is the AJAX handling. Some objects "work" just not optimally. Everything else it runs circles around anything else I've tried.

dkittle · 09-02-2008, 04:34 PM

Hmm, giving it a try now. Seems very nice and clean and fast, though a bit of a memory hog.

I can't actually access google calendar! I go to the page (from google.com) and it seems to be hung up going to the login page (blank page, loading spinner keeps on spinning). Would be bad if I didn't have a plugin for the calendar in Thunderbird!

*ve2vfd* · 09-02-2008, 05:44 PM

Nah, I've been a dedicated Opera user for many many years...

Pat

Arpe · 09-02-2008, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by MrApollinax

The browser is very similar to Opera which is what I have been using for years. The only thing that piques my interest is handling of tabs as seperate tasks in task manager. Chrome handles tabs exactly like Opera does with that one exception. Otherwise there is nothing else there that makes me want to try the browser.

I hate having separate tabs/documents/whatever in the task bar. First thing I do is turn that off in every app I can! Ain't we all different?

*nulla* · 09-02-2008, 09:03 PM

I am testing... have done for an hour or so and I am impressed.

Going to give it a go for a few days to see if its for me.

I use firefox at present.

I like the option of having a Google search in the URL bar and the past visits in the new tab page is great.

What IE catch on to these 2 options

Neil

AlpenTak · 09-02-2008, 09:16 PM

Google will soon take over the world muahahahahahahahahaha

Er... no, sorry, haven't tried it yet.