Google's new browser, Chrome. Page 3

Started by Drifloon September 2nd, 2008 8:24 AM
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Buoysel

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http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html

huh, I looked there now and most of section 11 has been removed o_o
I was just about to uninstall crome...

To be honest, I hardly ever read the legal crap. I don't do anything illegal anyways. (Except speed, who wants to go 30 mph anyway?)
I really need a new signature.
Yume...
Seen February 15th, 2010
Posted September 6th, 2008
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I just downloaded it, and I must say I like it.
Seems to render quite quickly as well., and the tab bar thing is nice as well.
The UI looks great with Vista too.

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Not an American
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Posted October 22nd, 2008
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I don't think it is that much more lightweight. In fact...with the consideration that it loads a new 'sandbox' everytime you load a new tab it cannot beat Firefox in that area.

Upon reviewing some tests regarding Chrome's performance I'm still sticking with Firefox. The idea of isolating tabs is very cool, but I'm not entirely sure how much use I would get out of it. Maybe I'll use it to open large .pdf's.

Unless you enjoy Chrome's layout a lot, Firefox still leads the browsers when it comes down to tests on performance. But Google knows what they're doing hopefully and we'll see how she acts when pulled out of Beta and put into the real tests.
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I don't think it is that much more lightweight. In fact...with the consideration that it loads a new 'sandbox' everytime you load a new tab it cannot beat Firefox in that area.

Upon reviewing some tests regarding Chrome's performance I'm still sticking with Firefox. The idea of isolating tabs is very cool, but I'm not entirely sure how much use I would get out of it. Maybe I'll use it to open large .pdf's.

Unless you enjoy Chrome's layout a lot, Firefox still leads the browsers when it comes down to tests on performance. But Google knows what they're doing hopefully and we'll see how she acts when pulled out of Beta and put into the real tests.
It's actually a bit bigger than FF (60MBish of RAM, as opposed to 50MBish in FF3).

And Sawaa, Firefox addons also add things that Mozilla might not want in there because they don't want to partner with someone. But some of them are there to give features it already had, but most don't. And unlike Opera, if you don't like the way a feature works, you just get an addon. I quit using Opera because I hated the email, and there's a wonderful Firefox addon to check your GMail and take you there. Also, Chrome is OPEN SOURCE. Hahahahahah, I'll bet you hate it now, don't you.

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Zet

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It's actually a bit bigger than FF (60MBish of RAM, as opposed to 50MBish in FF3).

And Sawaa, Firefox addons also add things that Mozilla might not want in there because they don't want to partner with someone. But some of them are there to give features it already had, but most don't. And unlike Opera, if you don't like the way a feature works, you just get an addon. I quit using Opera because I hated the email, and there's a wonderful Firefox addon to check your GMail and take you there. Also, Chrome is OPEN SOURCE. Hahahahahah, I'll bet you hate it now, don't you.
Chrome doesn't use that much RAM, Chrome for me uses 9,800 k to 12,000 k
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It's actually a bit bigger than FF (60MBish of RAM, as opposed to 50MBish in FF3).

And Sawaa, Firefox addons also add things that Mozilla might not want in there because they don't want to partner with someone. But some of them are there to give features it already had, but most don't. And unlike Opera, if you don't like the way a feature works, you just get an addon. I quit using Opera because I hated the email, and there's a wonderful Firefox addon to check your GMail and take you there. Also, Chrome is OPEN SOURCE. Hahahahahah, I'll bet you hate it now, don't you.
Protip? Opera can use Gmail as your default mail provider out of the box. Click on mailto: links to open your Gmail.

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Protip? Opera can use Gmail as your default mail provider out of the box. Click on mailto: links to open your Gmail.
He was also talking about the Gmail checker plugin for Firefox. Opera claims to have one but it's never worked for me. However, Gmail has one for your actual desktop so it doesn't even need to be built-in to your browser anyway. *shrug*


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Buoysel

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BWAAAAAAAAH, I told people who never believed me about how Google record and use our information as a search engine and now your downloading a web browser by it! Use google only to link you to sites, nothing else!
The exact reason I use other browsers for my online banking.

Things I don't like so far:

When the spell checker is stumped, it does not let you know, which for me is really annoying.

The browser starts to have a terrible lag after a lot of use. Restarted it and no problem.
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Yume...
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Protip? Opera can use Gmail as your default mail provider out of the box. Click on mailto: links to open your Gmail.
I know. I used Opera for about half a year on my Mac.
But I mean the webmail. I don't like using clients like Opera's, Thunderbird, or Outlook Express/Windows Mail on Vista.

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http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html

huh, I looked there now and most of section 11 has been removed o_o
Holy crap o___o;; Now that's just not right; pretty much:
"If you use this browser, we can legally take everything you upload."?

My god Google, I think as much of you as you think of your customers. Negative Rep!


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Whoever negged me because of my post needs a reality check. Everything that I posted was either an opinion that I am completely entitled to or a 100% fact. This is exactly why rep doesn't work for most websites. Honestly, I could go up and down this page negatively repping everyone who likes the web browser just because I feel it's garbage. However, I'm not going to because it's just not worth it. I'm going to stick to IE8. (Which, doesn't suck. And don't PM me about web browsers because I won't reply).
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Posted October 22nd, 2008
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Hi malware fighters and GChrome browser users,

For those who do not want Google to know what websites were visited, there is this free toll that blocks monitoring your surfing habits with GoogleChrome. There are two unique identifier-codes found inside every Chrome browser installation. These are “client_id” and “client_id_timestamp” found in the configuration file. These numbers enable Google to follow you around the World Wide Web. The free silectio tool prevents this by making the user anonymous.

The tool silencio can be downloaded from here: http://www.opwoco.com/silentio/

Thanks,
..Gary the Eternal..

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I downloaded it and it's not quite working for me. Whenever I try to login, it's give me an error message. If I'm not mistaken, YouTube doesn't really work for me either. I'll be sticking with Firefox 3 until Google fixes the bugs in it.

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Posted April 3rd, 2009
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I Actually just got off IE recently and went over to safari, then I found chrome a few weeks ago and checked it out.
I am currently switching between Safari, Chrome, IE(rarely, and Firefox(rarely.
It does feel kind of bare though.
Also just wondering because there has been some debate about it, does the incognito mode keep the browser from saving anything to do with the internet and keep it off your computer?