Google Chrome Browser Released!

[lowb1970]

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

Been there done that! At least you're taking it well

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Just installed Google Chrome to give it a try and this is my first post from it. My first impression: Very fast!

 

[katri]

I like chrome, it's on the computer at work, it's pretty nice. I like that the URL bar is a google bar.

 

[Disraeli Gears]

I've been using it for a few weeks now, and I quite like it. It's fast, NO popups (if I remember correctly, I still even got a few on firefox), and I like the interface. The issue I have with it is that some sites have plugins that aren't compatible with it yet, but hopefully that will fix itself soon. But at this point, I prefer it to ie (which got to the point where it was freezing up every several minutes) and firefox (which crashed once in a while when I was running a lot of tabs).

 

[L-A]

I recommend everyone to take a look at the comic Scott McCloud made to explain the way Chrome works compared to other browsers.

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_00.html

 

[Gintaras]

I've been using Chrome exclusively on my Desktop since it has been released. Very fast on the upside but does not have the addins that firefox has. Also running Shiretoko (new firefox beta) on my laptop and it seems to be even faster thou most users would not see any difference.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Do you think it's a good idea that every tab works as a separate process?

 

[L-A]

Do you think it's a good idea that every tab works as a separate process?

I'm no expert, but I do. It does not make for the fastest browsing, but it's a lot more consistent. A tab can freeze up due to some javascript loop, and the rest of them will keep working fine, because the bogus one can't eat more processing power than it is being given.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

I'm no expert, but I do. It does not make for the fastest browsing, but it's a lot more consistent. A tab can freeze up due to some javascript loop, and the rest of them will keep working fine, because the bogus one can't eat more processing power than it is being given.

I've yet to have FF crash without a very good reason. That reason is usually another program ****ing up. Quicktime, Adobe, etc....

Then usually there is an update a day later for the addon in question

 

[Jake of Bass]

I've been using it since it was released. The updates make it better and better. There have been quite a few issues but they've ironed out most of the kinks now. Yahoo mail works, embedded videos work, plugins work etc.

My only main complaint is that it needs more customisation. So many times I've gone to change a feature (like you can in IE) only to find you can't do it in Chrome.

 

[Kenbuntu]

i've been using chrome before i got ubuntu. I can't wait till they release a linux chrome. That thing was smoooooth.

 

[santucci218]

Hey guys, my firefox is crapping out on me...is chrome still working out well? any gripes with it?

 

[Pilgrim]

I tried it when it was released. Couldn't see that it did anything I needed that FF and IE didn't already do...and that meant there was no reason to learn a new interface and burn up hard drive space on it. Deleted it after a few minutes.

That was a few months ago...haven't had any reason to go back and re-visit Chrome. At the moment, I'm diagnosing a problem in my wireless laptop at home - IE connects to the wireless router, FF won't connect. Been working on it for days, and haven't solved it.