New GOOGLE Browser....Chrome

[rrbauer]

Appreciate posts from any folks who download/use the new GOOGLE browser. Should be available this week. I know there are some leading-edge gurus that post here and their experiences with this product will be valuable info.

[bigmack]

Chrome DL available here (http://www.google.com/chrome/).

So far my socks aren't rolling up & down using it. Give me a reason to leave FF3 or I won't bother.

[mrharness]

Check to see if you like Google updating your browser whenever it wants to plus other issues.

Fine Print:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10030522-56.html?tag=txt

[cj]

It is very, very fast.

[LottaKash]

Check to see if you like Google updating your browser whenever it wants to plus other issues.

Fine Print:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10030522-56.html?tag=txt

I agree, Google is very sneaky, almost Big Brotherish sneaky......:eek:

best.

[JustRalph]

After ten minutes using it..............

I think I am in love with the speed.........Amazing............

If I was Microsoft I would be laying off people in the Explorer Division tomorrow :lol:

[bigmack]

I may have been a bit hasty with the sock thing. Socks are rolling a plenty.

Fast is an understatement. No bloat here.

[JustRalph]

I love the way they present the "history" hit the history button and check that out

[bigmack]

Log-in info remains "at the ready" for a one click LI - Importing bookmarks/fav's is laughably easy - It may lack add-ons at this point but the speed far outweighs the occasional need for currently unavailable additives.

I had little idea how it was the browser slowing down my operation. Zip, zip, zip you go to websites with little in the way of waiting for the page to load.

A couple o' big ones from me. :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp:

[barn32]

I love the way they present the "history" hit the history button and check that outBiggest drawback so far for me is the inability to remember font sizes page to page.

Ctrl + enlarges the font, but it doesn't stay that way when you open and close the browser, and you have to do it for every page.

They need "no squint."

It's not ready to replace FireFox...yet. But since it's open source maybe those things are coming.

[barn32]

I'm finding a lot of other things I don't like about this browser. The speed is great, and a real plus. Downloads work well. But it is really lacking in some other areas.

Still can't quite figure out how to bookmark a page.

Would like to have a new tab open to a certain page.

Can't kill banner ads.

I hate having to reset the font size every time.

When I open a new tab it shows me all of the tabs I have open or used recently. Not sure the advantage of that.

It's not horrible. Has great potential, but like I said before, maybe all of the goodies are coming, which of course will slow it down more and make it like any other browser--except IE of course.

[bigmack]

Still can't quite figure out how to bookmark a page.

Would like to have a new tab open to a certain page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlh8gSF_hhE

[Greyfox]

Chrome's Terms of Service include:

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

Issues associated with above are discussed at:
http://tapthehive.com/discuss/This_Post_Not_Made_In_Chrome_Google_s_EULA_Sucks

[o_crunk]

posting with it right now...great speed. hate that i lose mouse gestures (and a lot of other plugins i like a lot), which are pretty much ingrained in my browsing psyche in FF. tabs on top of the address bar doesn't bother me much on first glance...almost seems natural. makes me realize how much a i use the google toolbar.

this is going to be the winner in about a year or so....

the FF memory leaks were killing my machine...and chrome seems to have fixed it.

[dutchboy]

CNET has an article where Google admits they plan to store 2% of all searches and the IP address they came from. Once stored I assume the info would be available for infinity and made available to the busy bodies.

[JustRalph]

your ISP is keeping that data anyway........... depending on who they are

[LottaKash]

I'm finding a lot of other things I don't like about this browser. The speed is great, and a real plus. Downloads work well. But it is really lacking in some other areas.

Still can't quite figure out how to bookmark a page.

Would like to have a new tab open to a certain page.

Can't kill banner ads.

I hate having to reset the font size every time.

When I open a new tab it shows me all of the tabs I have open or used recently. Not sure the advantage of that.

It's not horrible. Has great potential, but like I said before, maybe all of the goodies are coming, which of course will slow it down more and make it like any other browser--except IE of course.


Other than the speed, it sounds to me like there are many reasons not to switch.......I still use IE7 with XPsp2 and I never experience a wait for anything.....I don't see how it could be faster, and even if it is, what is the point, as I am never waiiting anyway.......

best,

[barn32]

Other than the speed, it sounds to me like there are many reasons not to switch.......I still use IE7 with XPsp2 and I never experience a wait for anything.....I don't see how it could be faster, and even if it is, what is the point, as I am never waiiting anyway.......

best,I made a very simple, bare bones browser in Visual Basic. In fact I learned how to do it watching a YouTube video. It had nothing. No bookmarks, no URLs, no tabs--nothing. Just your basic browser with a forward, back, go and refresh button.

It is very fast. I use it when I want to find something fast and FF is closed down. I imagine it is all of that "stuff" that gets added that slows things down in a browser.

Unlike you, whenever I open IE I have to wait forever, so FireFox is much better plus it has so many cool features. Until Chrome gets some (or most) of those features FF will be my browser of choice.

[JustRalph]

Other than the speed, it sounds to me like there are many reasons not to switch.......I still use IE7 with XPsp2 and I never experience a wait for anything.....I don't see how it could be faster, and even if it is, what is the point, as I am never waiiting anyway.......

best,

it's much faster............fyi

[LottaKash]

it's much faster............fyi

Hey Ralph, I believe you when you say it is faster, but faster in what way.......?

For instance, in ie-7, I keep my favorite urls on the links bar, and when I push the button, whammo, it is there.......Is that the fast everyone is referring to ? ...If not, then what particular operation/s would be faster...?

best,

[JustRalph]

I would just say try it. Maybe on the sites you use it won't make a difference. But some of the places I visit.......it loads 2-3 times faster. It handles flash very well.

[chickenhead]

as a 2000 user I still haven't tried it yet, but I do believe they built an entirely new javascript engine for use in Chrome and in the upcoming Android browser, that is apparently many times faster than the engine used in I.E, Firefox, etc. I am guessing that is one of the key areas where the speed difference would show up, in javascript heavy sites, which not just by chance, describes most of the things Google does.

[JustRalph]

here is the chrome comic.......explains a bunch of stuff


http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/images/1.jpg

[barn32]

When I booted up my PC this morning I fired up Chrome, and none of my tabs that were across the top were saved. That's not good.

[barn32]

When I booted up my PC this morning I fired up Chrome, and none of my tabs that were across the top were saved. That's not good.

OK, I figured out how to make that work.

Options>on startup>open the following pages.

I gotta admit I love the speed.

That was a good cartoon too--interesting.

[46zilzal]

It is all the rage at my wife's college as all of them in the I.T. department are testing it this week.

[dutchboy]

Wired.com has several interesting articles about chrome. At least they did yesterday. Have not checked today.

[Greyfox]

Chrome's Terms of Service include:

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

Issues associated with above are discussed at:
http://tapthehive.com/discuss/This_Post_Not_Made_In_Chrome_Google_s_EULA_Sucks

I posted the above concern yesterday.
Since then Google has taken action to modify that T.O.S.
"Google has acted with speed and retracted the objectional sentences in Chrome's EULA, so that any content you post via Chrome is yours and yours alone."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/04/google_retracts_lousy_chrome_eula_terms/

[rrbauer]

No good with Youbet.

[barn32]

I keep using this browser more and more. However, I'm not getting sound on some sites. I get sound on YouTube, but not on some of the news sites.

[JustRalph]

Java for Chrome is now available

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea/6u10/6u10rcDownload.jsp#6u10JREs


Download the top link for windows users.............

works great now

[barn32]

Java for Chrome is now available

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea/6u10/6u10rcDownload.jsp#6u10JREs


Download the top link for windows users.............

works great nowI don't see anything on that link about Google Chrome? I'm curious why Google hasn't released an official upgrade.

[JustRalph]

I got the info from here

http://googlechrometips.blogspot.com/2008/09/install-java-for-google-chrome.html

installed and it worked

[barn32]

I got the info from here

http://googlechrometips.blogspot.com/2008/09/install-java-for-google-chrome.html

installed and it workedThanks for the link. I installed the following program, but I still can't get videos to play on CNN.COM.

jre-6u10-rc2-windows-i586-p-iftw.(exegoeshere) (http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/GetFile/1.6.0_10-rc2-b32/windows-i586/jre-6u10-rc2-windows-i586-p-iftw.exe)

[JustRalph]

I tried Cnn Video and it doesn't work for me. Not sure what they are using, but if I figure it out, I will post it.

[JustRalph]

I tried Cnn Video and it doesn't work for me. Not sure what they are using, but if I figure it out, I will post it.

I can't get them to work..................

Shortcut cheat sheet. Some are obvious......some are not.

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95743