Google Chrome Browser Released!

McHaven · #1 09-02-2008, 12:57 PM

Google's new browser, Chrome, has released today. It's available at www.google.com/chrome

So, let's have this thread be a place to discuss what we like and don't like about chrome.

For those of you who have started using it already, how do you like it? Does it meet the hype?

NJL · #2 09-02-2008, 01:07 PM

just downloaded it. it crashed during setup.

i can't see anything better with this browser than FF, but then again i'm not really looking. i'm happy with FF on my Windoze machine and happy with Safari on my SlackBook.

Left Left Goose · #3 09-02-2008, 01:52 PM

i did a short sell of googles stock on friday not knowing about this

woke up this morning to a $15 increase and a -$1500 in my bank account

Funkdrawer4 · #4 09-02-2008, 01:54 PM

I just put it on my slab top,seems to work fine with Vista,still getting used to it.

jon118 · #5 09-02-2008, 01:58 PM

I'm using it right now since I always like to try new browsers. It doesn't look like it's going to be as slow as Firefox (which is terrible now, it will just decide to not load certain pages until you open another browser for some reason) but I'm really hoping they get an adblocking solution. That's the main thing that keeps me with Firefox, that browser has just gotten worse and worse. Right now center click doesn't give you any scroll functions, but works fine for opening tabs and closing them, and I'm not a big fan of the way the bookmarks operate on this. Other than those things this could easily replace Firefox with me, adblock is the real deal breaker out of all of that though.

Scarlet Fire · #6 09-02-2008, 02:00 PM

I'm surprisingly pleased with it. It's very clean looking (which is important to me), and it's way faster than Firefox ever was for me. I'm not sure if I'll keep it over Opera, but I'll wait for a few days to see if any fun add-ons come out for it.
I need to keep trying it out, though. There are a few minor annoyances so far, and I want to see if there are any major flaws still hiding.

McHaven · #7 09-02-2008, 02:02 PM

I'm not exactly thrilled with the integration of the search and address bar. I'd much rather have the Mozilla style separate search.

I figure since it's open source, we'll see a huge number of plugins and themes and skins. It may take awhile to finally get chrome running up to full potential

MonetBass · #8 09-02-2008, 02:09 PM

That a Beta release, BTW. Good luck with that.

Chipsonfire · #9 09-02-2008, 02:09 PM

+1 for adblock, but with the open source nature of it, I'm sure it will be here soon. I haven't actually tried it yet, but I'm going to. Maybe when I get the swelling in my sinuses down enough to think clearly >_<

Scarlet Fire · #10 09-02-2008, 02:20 PM

The one thing I'm really concerned about with Chrome is data collection. Google is notorious for collecting a lot of data about its users, and this would just make it even easier for them to do so. Hopefully I'm just being paranoid, but if it turns out they are using Chrome as a tool to collect data, I'm ditching it.

jon118 · #11 09-02-2008, 02:22 PM

Well, even without adblock at the moment I'm convinced that Firefox no longer has a place on my laptop. Pages load just as quickly if not faster than Firefox, even with extra images from the ads. Plus it can do the one thing Firefox absolutely can not, Ebay. Honestly it takes at least a full minute to open an Ebay page in Firefox, and that's if it even opens at all. I still want adblock so I can block images I don't want to see for whatever reason, but I can live without it for a browser that is actually working.

lemur821 · #12 09-02-2008, 02:29 PM

How are you people making Firefox run so slow?

Scarlet Fire · #13 09-02-2008, 02:30 PM

Nice to see they included porn mode. I mean, Incognito mode.

McHaven · #14 09-02-2008, 02:37 PM

Also, I take back my statements about a separate search bar. Now that I'm not in class, I'm able to play with it. Once you visit a site with a search bar in it, it loads the data in Chrome, and you're able to set that site to a key word for the search bar.

So say, I want to search wikipedia for an article on bass guitars. I don't have to go through google, or go change my search parameters like in FF.

All I have to do is type "wiki bass guitar" in the search bar. And since I have set my wikipedia keyword to wiki, it loads the exact page I want.

You can set it up for almost every site you want, it's pretty damn nice. I don't think I'll be going back to FF.

Darkstrike · #15 09-02-2008, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lemur821

How are you people making Firefox run so slow?

+1, mines running lightning fast, any my laptop isn't new, expensive, high tech etc.

iamlowsound · #16 09-02-2008, 02:42 PM

Firefox runs really fast on my computer. Although that is the mac version and it isn't as bloated as the windows version. I'll wait a bit before I try chrome.

lowsound

Atoz · #17 09-02-2008, 02:43 PM

No Linux version = non-starter.

**baba** · #18 09-02-2008, 02:46 PM

I need Adblock!

**Pacman** · #19 09-02-2008, 02:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jon118

Well, even without adblock at the moment I'm convinced that Firefox no longer has a place on my laptop. Pages load just as quickly if not faster than Firefox, even with extra images from the ads. Plus it can do the one thing Firefox absolutely can not, Ebay. Honestly it takes at least a full minute to open an Ebay page in Firefox, and that's if it even opens at all. I still want adblock so I can block images I don't want to see for whatever reason, but I can live without it for a browser that is actually working.

I have no problems with FF loading Ebay...

Jazz Ad · #20 09-02-2008, 02:55 PM

It is light, fast and intuitive. I like it so far.
ALthough I've always been pleased with Firefow, which opens eBay pages very quickly.