Google Chrome

I've reluctantly switched back to Firefox, following one Shockwave Flash crash too many. The visual feel is great, and the all-in-one predictive search/address box is excellent... but it runs too slowly (on both my machines) and it really can't cope with Flash.

I've dumped flash instead. Fuck that performance hog. Only real loss is YouTube, and I'll live.

Is there any way to block images in Chrome?

The Chromium nightly build-checker thing is kind of nice and the fixes seem to roll out pretty quickly.

ugh what the hell
http://base58.com/ilx/chromecrap.gif

What's so WTF about that?

yeah steve that's the whole point (every chrome tab/window is a seperate process so when one dies the other ones live.. supposedly)

memory usage issue. have to abandon chrome at work anyway for same reasons as mike gave.

all those chromes add up to the mem usage of one instance of firefox

Chrome is great. Only things bad I've got to say about it:

1. Why, when as much as possible has been stripped out of the top part, does it still have a "go" button next to the address bar? The last time I used one of these was about 10 years ago. You type the address and then press enter, don't you? Is there a point to this that I've just never noticed?

2. Flash/funny computer stuff makes some sites work oddly, e.g. back button just messes things up in hotmail and other sites.

3. The nine most visited sites view when you open a new tab is cool, but would be better if you could customise the sites (and titles) it showed.

4. Likewise, I wanna turn off the "recent favourites" thing on the new tab. I hate it. It shows the favourites you add in incognito mode for fuck's sake! I don't want that as the first page that loads up!

all-in-one predictive search/address box is excellent

type "about:config" in the search bar in firefox
yes I will be careful and not void my warranty
find the value for "keyword.URL"
change the string to "http://www.google.com/search?q=";

congratulations on your new all-in-one predictive search/address box

oh and then go get rid of the stupid google search field in the toolbar

Also it's handy that if you're using someone else's computer you can go to options/minor tweaks/show saved passwords and there they all are in plain text.

all those chromes add up to the mem usage of one instance of firefox

FF = 80mb right now

what does that keyword.url thing do tombot?

memory usage issue. have to abandon chrome at work anyway for same reasons as mike gave.

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Tuesday, October 7, 2008 11:58 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

all those chromes add up to the mem usage of one instance of firefox

― ILX Systern (ken c), Tuesday, October 7, 2008 12:16 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

This includes memory pages shared between processes.

about:memory in chrome has tons of details on what its up to. Also: it frees up memory pretty much instantly when you close a tab, unlike FF.

Other thing I like about the address bar is you don't need to hit down-arrow to autocomplete, it just fills it in.

and startup time is pretty much instant on this PC, compared to weeks for FF.

Also: it frees up memory pretty much instantly when you close a tab, unlike FF.

There's a way to change this.

how do i shot freeing up memory?

how do i shot a fucking obvious google search? http://blog.codefront.net/2008/09/10/optimize-firefoxs-memory-usage-by-tweaking-session-preferences/

all those chromes add up to the mem usage of one instance of firefox

...to more than one instance of Firefox, based on the couple of times I've done the maths.

and startup time is pretty much instant on this PC, compared to weeks for FF.

― stet, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 16:57 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is what makes it better than Firefox for me.

thanks for searching that fucking obvious page for me jon! i'll give it a try.

and startup time is pretty much instant on this PC, compared to weeks for FF.

there's probably a way to change this.

...to more than one instance of Firefox, based on the couple of times I've done the maths.
Yeh, there's usually a little overhead, but because all the tabs are separate processes, when you close them all it shrinks back down. Firefox can't do this nearly as efficiently because it's sharing from one big pool.

That said, while Chrome is good on my work PC, at home it's a crashy barrel of shite -- text gets overwritten weirdly in text boxes and I get strange pauses. Weird.

hate the strange pauses :(

oh chromepause . . .

I basically like it a lot.

There are still some major bugs that need fixed, but it's got potential.

It certainly loads faster than any other browser and it's got some neat features. I'm gonna give it some time before I diss it.

It took me awhile before I realized that the page title is displayed nowhere on the "chrome". Big lose.

even in the tab?

Yeah, like 10 characters of the title, if that.

23, and the rest on hover. I'd rather the space than the words.

Also on Google: does anyone else's Gmail look all extra-line-spaced today? Ugh.

23 maybe when you only have a few tabs, sure. I don't have more than 8, not counting spaces, on any tab right now.

Instead of mouse-over full titles, the title of the current tab should be there in full, overlaid on the others translucently, and the mouse-over should make it disappear.

You listening, GOOG? That design advice is gratis.

I don't think Chrome is really made for the person who more than a few tabs open (that would someone like be me), as the design is totally stripped down, no extensions, speed and simplicity. I still like it, but for now Firefox 3 with Tree Style Tab (tabs running down the side = great for when you typically have 10-20 open all time, since the browser will always remember your previously opened ones) is the best solution for myself at the moment.

you know the kind of auto-predict of popular sites that comes up?, in chrome? can someone else tell me what comes up when they've got to the halfway stage of checking out forcedexposure.com, and have only typed forcede ?
mmmmm.

^lmao

Ultra-development version for OS X finally released. It's fast but rather uncompelling (especially next to current dev release of Safari 4)

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

i use it on my pc at home. i rrrreally like it.

stevie don't you mean you use the Chrome web browser? This is supposed to be a whole "operating system".

Although looking closer it says that it runs on Linux. So I guess it's a... file manager and browser?

"Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS,"

give it ten years and it'll be just as overblown and intrusive as windows is now.

for something that's supposed to be tailored for web applications etc, it is the most unreliable browser i've experienced so far for facebook. writing a message would crash it 8 times out of 10. that's before you try to watch youtube etc.

in my job i sometimes need to load up STUPIDLY LARGE web pages with like 600 javascript dropdowns on them etc - chrome just quits straight away, IE freezes, firefox freezes.. strangely safari on XP has been the most reliable for me

that sounds more the website's fault tho - 412 javascripts on one page are all a man needs

the only things that bug me about chrome: not easy to use extensions, doesn't run adobe reader in the browser

oh, of course it is the web site's fault blueski - unfortunately i have to deal with a lot of internal pages that are intended for administration, monitoring, etc and they were put together by engineers rather than people who know anything about the web. so i have to use them. and i would have thought that an application running on a modern computer with its relatively massive amounts of memory and fast processor could handle rendering 600 form controls on one page but google chrome is just not up to it.

To be honest, I much prefer reader not taking over my browser, I hate that being the default behaviour on other browsers. The PDF plug-in for Firefox on the mac works pretty well though - so maybe if they just improved the integration on a PC I wouldn't mind.

Chrome keeps my work computer usable. wish they'd hurry up and release it for OSX

i use it at home on my dell pc. pretty good.