Google Chrome

Also, Opera had that preview window but you can choose which 9 webpages you'd like to be clickable links when you load.. does any browser other than Chrome have a similar feature? I rarely use the other two installs on m y computer, Firefox and IE..

Anyone else still using this? I went back to FF today for something else and it seemed to crawl. Loving the home page as well

Flash seems to run really slowly on Chrome but lightning fast with everything else. I switch between it and FF all the time - can't seem to let go of one.

yeah, i have a couple of things i have to flip to another browser for every once in a while. i figure they'll pick those things up with future releases. otherwise i love this. it's like someone fished into my head and pulled out my ideal browser, although given that it's my head, that's not necessarily a recommendation for others.

Yeah, only Chrome on the PC, which is somewhat underused compared to the Mac. It really doesn't seem that much faster than FFX, honestly.

I've pretty much give up oh Chrome, crashed once too often and there were a couple of other aspects which it lacked. Back with FF now.

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Also, Opera had that preview window but you can choose which 9 webpages you'd like to be clickable links when you load.. does any browser other than Chrome have a similar feature? I rarely use the other two installs on m y computer, Firefox and IE..

I only use FF for work-based stuff, and it drives me mad. It stops working after a couple hours (doesn't display style sheets and links stop working) and I have to force quit. And it's slow. And I don't like it.

I don't know of any other browsers that have a dialpad... and the most recent version of Opera has some kind of smart-search URL bar, so you can search your browsing history by full URL, partial URL (or words that might have been in the URL), keyword (it'll bring up recently visited pages with whatever word it is), or a combination of these. I <3 the new URL search bar thingie.

Is Opera just unknown outside of Canada (even though it's not headquartered there)? Or do people just avoid it because Firefox is and more common and accessible (but not anywhere near as good (or so I think anyway))?

wtf, is the italics tag not working?

eh? i can see italics fine in your post. but then i'm using superior firefox power

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Stainless_Browser%3A_Google_Chrome_For_the_Mac

hmm, not conviced

I do like the tab to search within a site in chrome.

Is there any way to block images in Chrome?

chrome will be great when it's working properly but at this beta moment it's not great. pressing the keyboard while playing fantastic contrapions will freeze it for 10 seconds, and that just won't do.

the youtube freezing after two seconds thing is getting pretty old.
i like it though; i find myself using stuff i usually bypass in other browsers, like everything has a point.

yeah but for a browser that's designed from the ground up to work with modern web2.0 websites it seems to be very good at rendering html and has a neat interface while pretty rubbish with javascript, java, flash??

from that little comic thing - the embedded java etc are supposed to run in its own process so that it won't freeze the rest of the browser when it crashes - i haven't experienced this non-freezing rest of browser phenonmenon.

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.