The Google Chrome Browser Thread (do not start another one!)

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Chinchilla, Sep 1, 2008.

  1. bacardirum

    bacardirum Well-Known Member

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    #321
    What I don't get is this, if google knew they were going to be releasing a web browser at some point, why give firefox the massive audience that they did!
     
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    bacardirum Well-Known Member

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    Top right, other bookmarks

     
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    #323
    Ok, here's my impressions:

    Initial reaction was dissapointment as it does not attempt to use the native OS widgets and just like Safari it ignores the system metric. Webkit on the whole has fallen behind everyone else on content resizing as well, making it next to useless for me as a daily browser.

    Their site touted their tab placement as 'innovative' when it's identical to how Opera does it. The lack of a useful menu makes general use unintuitive and finding what few options it has a royal pain in the ass (did they not pay attention when M$ tried that **** with IE7?), and the fading/transparant load indicator is difficult to read, provides little or no USEFUL info, being OH SO SPECIAL when you end up on a page that takes more than ten seconds to load. (as in how some olympics are special)

    Bookmark handling is also much like Safari, and that's not a compliment. It's like a trip in the wayback machine to Nyetscape 3, and definately it's weakest point... but then I find most 'bookmark bars' useless preferring Opera's drag and drop favicon approach for my more frequently accessed pages.

    The only thing it does that IE and FF can't is detach tabs to be dragged outside the current program window to become another window instance - something Opera has done since before it had tabs and was flat MDI.

    Being a beta that means the feature sets should be fixed by now, just requiring debugging... So I'm hoping Google doesn't understand what beta means and that this is in fact an Alpha - If not, when it hits final it has nothing to allow it to compete with FF, Opera or IE, and has a number of things that make it less useful than any of them since right now it's just Safari with a slap of paint.
     
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  4. drhowarddrfine

    drhowarddrfine Peon

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    #324
    How many IE users use Google. How many IE users use Live search?
    How many IE users will be using Chrome this time next year?
     
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    MarbleHost.com Well-Known Member Affiliate Manager

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    #325
    I just installed it, played with this software for a few minutes and then came back to my Maxthon :)
     
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    drhowarddrfine Peon

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    #326
    If you have been writing with web standards then you have no worries. You have been doing that, haven't you?
    Chrome uses WebKit which is one of the most advanced rendering engines with bleeding edge standards compliance far outshining anything the new IE8 could hope to produce. It is on par, if not slightly ahead, of Firefox's Gecko engine.
     
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    #327
    Because they also earned nice popularity through Firefox too, due to the fact that the default search engine is set to a customized Google one. Also, I guess they were showing off as supporters of the Open Source movement or didn't had plans on releasing their own browser back in those days...
     
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    #328
    You should try it for yourself and see. My initial impression is that it's quite good. It just needs a couple of addons ported from FF and it becomes my everyday browser (it is already anyway)...
     
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    #329
    It's already out and it's quite impressive...
     
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  10. HomeRun

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    #330
    With google toolbar coming with firefox it means more searches on Google which means more ads in google search pages which means more money.

    You thought all those $1.00 referrals was just for firefox?
     
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    #331
    perhaps go to Tools > Options > Under the Hood tab.

    Uncheck Help make Google Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google.
     
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    #332
    Not bad , but FF is better
     
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    #333
    Seem like FF3..
     
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  14. bacardirum

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    Yeah I realise google was pre-installed etc on firefox, but all the same with hindsight it was a bad thing to do regardless of money, the only answer would be that they had no intention or thought of ever creating there own web browser as mrgee said. I don't think they would be that stupid otherwise, cause not only do they have IE to compete with which is hard enough as it is, firefox are major players now also, I can only suspect google want to try and be #1 with this web browser, so they made things harder for themselves. I really do like what I have seen so far with it, and already there are very nice things that I cannot do with IE where I am timed out after 15 min loading, but its working a dream on chrome. They have failed miserably with other apps they have tried to develop in the past, which have all been massive flops, chat etc Will see how they progress with this, 1st impressions are really good though :)
     
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    #336
    Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) displays all weird without full functionality for corporate exchange users. to be fair, Firefox looks exactly the same and doesn't play well with OWA either.
     
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    #337
    I don't think Google has failed with this browser, but has actually become a big player now in the market for web browsers. Google is behind FF and still continues to supply FF with source codes and had funded and supported FF deeply. Google is now using part of that FF code that it helped to develop. So what you will see is a very well built new Google Browser after Beta mode has passed.
     
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    #339
    Right, but there are still exceptions.

    I'm not overly paranoid about it.
     
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    #340
    At the moment i also prefer FF but it looks very promising, thats true
     
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