Google Chrome

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

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 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.