Google Chrome

u guys sure are mad at a comic on the internet about a new piece of software

ITS OUTRAGEOUS.

I'm mad that I clicked through 14 pages of nonsense with no end in sight, yes.

Yeah, I got to page 22 or so before giving up.

It's such shit.

maybe they deliberately didnt tell us how long it was.

max, at least we're talking about a comic that we are actually reading.
Here's a bunch of blowhards talking about Chrome itself, when they haven't even used it yet...

The commenter talking about the browser inside of a browser is mildly funny.

http://www.aramchang.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/fivefinger_usersenario.gif

Whoa, yeah, I was gunna say. Full-on Scott McCloud going on on that site.

The press conference is on now, so you can live stream the video and see how much the developers look like their comic book representations.

Yeah, I got to page 22 or so before giving up.

Whaaa... ? Jesus, I'm only on page 5. Sod this.

this must be a 'software engineer' thing like when i get mad at jim derogatis

It'll be ironic if nu-nu-nu-ILX doesn't work with Chrome (yeah I know it will 'cause of WebKit etc.)

like rain on your wedding day

http://www.google.com/chrome
Windoze (Beta)

Needs Vista or XP SP 2

wau this is hideous

somehow uglier than ie

I feel like it was designed by me. This is not a good thing.

> Yeah, I got to page 22 or so before giving up

38 pages in total. and that thing that only let you click 'next' and then appeared to reshow the current page whilst downloading the next page really slowly in the background was really annoying.

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

interesting that they chose webkit over gecko. mildly. will be interesting to see whether Adblock gets ported to it...

and that thing that only let you click 'next' and then appeared to reshow the current page whilst downloading the next page really slowly in the background was really annoying.

that's what im talking about. such a basic functionality failure and these guys are making a browser?

Reminds me of that crap AOL browser from about 1996.

I dunno, I kinda like it. The comic is random and endless however.

pretty awful

what does it bring that firefox doesn't already have sewn up?

lower memory footprint?

Supposedly if a website causes a tab to crash, then that tab can be closed without affecting any other tabs that are open.

But Firefox will reopen your session back at the same state it had when it crashed.

Yep...

Although to be fair, it's usually necessary to force Firefox to close by using the Task Mananger.

I quit after that first page. I don't care if it has a small memory footprint than Firefox (probably not), I'm not going through THAT.

firefox is fine these days, memory-wise; those days are past us, we live in the promised age

safari is amazing too; what are google thinking

total palin play

I just can't believe how fast and light it is. I've just uninstalled firefox, and I don't think I'll regret it. Big surprise.

Don't you guys find it a LOT faster ?

I thought it was very, very, very slow compared to Firefox. Big ILX threads took at least 50% longer to load.

firefox is supersonic these days, even on os x

Using the VP thread and links off of it as a benchmark, Chrome is at least half a second slower than Firefox.

Plus it is caught by the Barracuda filter at work; Firefox is not.

Strange cause I find it fast in a quasi-shocking way. And I'm not a Google fanboy at all !

HOW MUCH A GOOGLE STREET TEAM PAY SNOBAL?

Sold out to the man. Sad, really.

still early, but so far i like this a lot. i'm finding it clean n smooth n quick. is there a possible mac/windows divide here?

yes. it's not out for mac yet. so, huge divide!

i already have a browser on my computer

Seems a little faster than Firefox or IE on my antique notebook

Based on WebKit, but not out for Mac... ridiculous!

I really dug the comic.

it's fast for ilxor.com

don't know about other sites yet.

i kind of wish there's more "chrome" on the window edges so i can drag the window around easier..

kind of wish it doesn't display thumbnails of all the porno sites i've visited as soon as someone asks for a new tab

font smoothing all fucked up on Ilx sometimes

It displays ilx beautifully whereas Firefox is a bit fucked up and doesn't seem to recognise the stylesheets. Not sure whats happening but I'll be using chrome instead from now on.

some complaints from people that it's not using cleartype. I think it is, but loses it in some circumstances. Weird.

awesome, thanks brah

i am having the weirdest chrome issue, since updating to whatever the latest version is a few weeks ago. and worse, i can't find anyone else having the same problem, and worserer, i am having trouble consistently replicating the issue.

it looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/Pzo7jCv.png

pop-up URL boxes now occasionally appear, on some webpages. sometimes it's when my mouse passes over an image, sometimes when it's over a URL, sometimes when it's just text, and sometimes when it's just on the side of text. sometimes the pop-up box disappears relatively quickly. sometimes they persist until I move my mouse over the pop-up box. sometimes, even after I do that, they don't go away. it's insane. some websites have more of a problem with it than others - Pitchfork immediately became a nightmare to browse. sometimes i have to "clear" about a dozen pop-up URL boxes when i read a single review. then on the next review, maybe i don't get any at all. it is fucking weird.

twitter also occasionally completely flips out on me, especially when i'm trying to "compose" a new tweet

https://i.imgur.com/XMVqlVP.png

the problem is especially notable when I have a link in the tweet - the pop-ups stack on top of each other, and sometimes I've seen like 20 or 30 stacked - IT'S MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO TWEET, OH HEAVENS

anyway, i have had zero luck troubleshooting this or finding anyone with a similar issue.

do you think their being drawn is connected w/ tooltip-style hovers or with the status bar traditionally at window bottom?

use firefox

xp

more like tooltip-style hovers. although again, sometimes the pop-up occurs right where the cursor is, and sometimes they show up several hundred pixels away. it's fucking weird (and incredibly annoying).

use firefox

yeah, this is probably the answer

Is Firefox good now?
Haven't used it for awhile
Chrome is a real hog

Firefox is good now

cosign

Still a memory hog more than other browsers on a mac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMbcOC5dS5k

dropping this here in case anyone finds it useful--i noticed after the last chrome update that the prioritization of suggestions in the address bar had changed. i always use the first letter or two to get to the sites i check all the time, and after the update it started placing my most recent search starting w/that letter over my most visited url starting with that letter.

so like instead of typing 'i' to autocomplete ilxor.com i would end up repeating a search for "irrigating a garden" or whatever the last random thing i looked up was.

anyway this tells you how to fix it: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/14/fix-chrome-prioritizing-search-words-over-visited-sites-in-address-bar/

Appreciate that.

I thought I had noticed something happening, but it was one of those things where I thought maybe I was the crazy one.

search on my android isn't worth shit the past week

not getting fb or twitter notifications in the same time period

lol xiaomi?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/30/google-just-gave-2-billion-chrome-users-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox/amp/?fbclid=IwAR3eibAW_8iCiqa8dojijIzvHI8_oNYrlH9KqZ4Bz4MrDe2-bHa6KLzaB2Y

(^^^^ this indicates that chrome will not allow ad blockers soon for anyone but Enterprise users)

i've been using Opera for a couple years now and it's great. i'm almost fully extricated from Big Google.

Where has the fucking flag to disable the incredibly stupid pull-to-refresh gone in Android Chrome?

How do I shot printing from Chrome these days?

The selected printer is not available or not installed correctly.
Check your printer or try selecting another printer.

Same even for Save as PDF.

Anyone have suggestions for an add-on or extension that gives Chrome a search bar similar to Firefox's? I basically want my search phrase to persist in case I need to edit it on subsequent searches.

Every time Chrome updates I have to go into flags and disable the side search panel.

Every tech company insists on making their product more annoying with every iteration.

I just updated it and it did not put the side search panel back.

Experiencing a weird bug using Chrome on my Mac, Chrome windows always appear behind / hidden by windows from every other application. No way to bring them to the front (including the "bring all to front" menu item.) Makes my computer a little bit unusable.

Restarting fixed it. Which is weird, because it started happening immediately after a prior restart ...

Oh hi I have another complaint. Cmd-clicking on links on my iPad no longer opens a new tab. Works fine in what I guess is my new favorite web browser, Safari.

Yeah that's the worst. Holding the link does the trick, but no one's got time for that

fuck Chrome and fuck Google

I like it! Microsoft Edge is far worse. It is at least 10 years since I last used Firefox.

chrome sucks, use firefox

I went back to safari after 5ish years of Firefox.

They added a feature equivalent to Firefox containers which was the only thing keeping me on ff, and the Apple Pay integration, iCloud sync of everything to phone, and the greatest feature in the world (https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/20/how-the-security-code-autofill-feature-made-it-to-the-iphone) are huge.