Chrome uses WebKit, same as Safari. If the site works on Safari, it will work on Chrome. I reviewed it on my blog. (see sig)
Not integrate it but I believe make it work better IF you use their other features. But you don't have to. In fact, Chrome is as customizable as FF in that it also has 'about:' features. Plus, being open source, others can modify at will. In fact, Google encourages other browser vendors to use the code.
Sure have. Such as local DoS exploits or drive-by downloads. But concerning web design and output in the broswer; no. It seems very similar or even identical to Mozilla Firefox. Also, funny thing: I saw YouTube advertise something in the trend of "Use a safe, fast browser such as Mozilla Firefox". Is this part of the financial deal they have made, apart from the integrated search bar and Google-Mozilla homepage? Sincerely, Mike Post
It was on the search results page of YouTube yesterday. I will attempt to find it again. Sincerely, Mike Post
With nothing useful in it - which again makes it little more than Safari with a slap of paint and no 'real' usability increases. Again, the UI is like a trip in the wayback machine to Netscape 3.
I don't care how customisable it is. While I appreciate the web developing tools of FF (Opera if I used Opera's and IE's if I used those), I don't customise things very often. I never change skins, or play with eye candy bullshit, because that's not why I'm using the product. I don't use toolbars to search google or anyone else, I don't use SpeedDial, and pretty much the only features of browsers I really like that have been added in the last 10 years are Tabs and Bookmarks. The rest means nothing to me. That said, Chrome has one thing that gets on my good side: it looks pretty empty, and puts the tab above the addressbar, which I think visually makes more sense. Not a good enough reason to change browsers. I browse with FF only because it comes with the tools I'm used to. I browse in IE when using JAWS for the same reason-- used to the commands for IE and not for FF. I don't learn new tricks very quickly.
I agree about some of the add ons but if I was visually impaired I'd worry more about font size control etc. Skins, nah, just let me get on with it! But I'd be lost without firebug (the real version, not the chrome version), snaplinks and informenter. We all have little things that let us work more efficiently and it's vital that they can be added.
I don't recall whether 'about' is useful yet or not but the keyword is 'yet'. You forget that this is version 0.2 of this browser. Now think of that. Version 0.2 is as good as Safari which is more advanced than IE8 with 10x faster javascript performance. Just wait till this guy gets to 1.0!
Yep. I'm a plain Jane kinda guy, too, except for a few FF extensions and developer tools. font-size can be controlled with ctrl-+/- and the mouse just like all the other browsers. Well, you're asking Chrome to be Firefox. That's like asking all those things to work in IE, too. But at least with Chrome it might actually happen one day because the capability is there right now but it's not implemented. (It's in 'about: something' but I forgot what) The thing you have to gain sight of is Chrome is there to push other browser vendors. Google says "Steal our code....Please! And make your browsers better!" And if Chrome becomes the browser to look up to, performance and code-wise, so much the better for all of us who write code for the web.
Seems to me the pages are loading much faster. I have not figured out yet how to ad a bar to the address region though. I really like where they are going with this.
ya.....i did not recognise any major difference to this. this is really cool.......as a web designer, it nice to know......cool and fantastic....
Someone posted at SitePoint that it looks like instead of taking over IE users, Chrome is taking over FF users. This was based on only 5 days and showed Safari numbers taking a hit too which couldn't be from Chrome so who knows, but it's true that FireFox and Opera users are just generally more aware that other browsers exist and are more likely to try teh googliebrowser than IE users.
Computerworld, today, has an article showing IE has dropped while FF picked up 1 1/2 percentage points, probably due to Chrome. Shows why these short term stats don't mean anything. However, I hope that trend continues.
Your typical IE user won't know that Chrome exists yet and won't start using it until they get a huge ad in their face everytime they search. Even then they may download, they may even install but will they make it their default browser?
Yeah. One thing in Chrome's favour is that, after it's out of Beta, Google will probably advertise the hell out of it, and reach a lot of curious IE users. FF just doesn't have that kind of advertising reach-- some people use FF/Opera but LOTS of people use teh Googles (beyond just search, which thankfully doens't have ads on the first page).
The general web user will never use Chrome unless its pre-loaded on there P.C already. The only audience Chrome can hope of gaining is FF's audience, as IE users are IE users because it was plonked on there P.C, and they don't even understand the concept that you can access the internet on another browser. And seeing as FF users are so happy with FF I don't think they are going anywhere. I can't even be bothered to download Chrome, sadly it's had far too many bad reviews already meaning it's gonna be very hard to shift. Google Docs or whatever isn't going to compete with Office, nor is Chrome going to compete with any browser.
Firefox is not pre-loaded but gained 20% share. On the contrary, though it's true Chrome is rough at version 0.2, it is greeted everywhere with much enthusiasm and even crowned "historical". Though historical might be a bit much, I do consider it a push that will be noticed as significant in the next couple of years. Um, don't get out much? Wish I kept that link about how much Docs is used. Already, ZDNet says it makes up 3.8% of their readers which is more than Opera (and I think Safari) does now.