Google Chrome

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.

So any word on when this comes out for Mac?

Long time, apparently don't have any UI stuff at all yet, just the basics working.

I have been using it all week on my work PC, it is way faster than Firefox on my decrepit old laptop. Mind you so was firefox until it started filling caches up so we will see. I like how much screen real estate it leaves for the browser window.

It crashes whenever I try to use a flash game or similar. I like the size of the windows. I really don't like the new tab with all the popular pages.

i think i like that whole when you start it up it gives you an instant option from popular pages to choose from, instead of having a default home page. Works okay for me.

What I guess I don't like is the simplistic look about it, it works for Google search engine yes but am a bit pessimistic on this one.

http://lifehacker.com/5045164/google-chromes-full-list-of-special-about-pages

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

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Ctrl-Shift-N for a new "incognito window" that doesn't save any history or cookies. (might be difficult to press all those keys with one hand)

Chrome doesn't allow me to click the middle mouse button and drag the page up and down :(

this crashed on me last night. back to firefox then lol

firefox never crashes for you?

don't recall so, might have done due to me up to no good but Chrome crashed from simple browsing of ilx.

IE crashes constantly on the other hand

Chrome crashed for me when I loaded the first page of the weather network.. so I went happily back to Opera.

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

(^^^^ 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.