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Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Laketown on September 02, 2008, 07:08:28 AM
Google is releasing a browser soon, next couple hours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome)
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Google_launche...,_dubbed_Chrome (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Google_launches_web_browser,_dubbed_Chrome)
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fre...on-browser.html (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html)

comic explaining what's better about it

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/# (http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/#)
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: THEFTman on September 02, 2008, 07:25:10 AM
Looking forward.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: FIGHTER on September 02, 2008, 08:24:15 AM
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Makaveli on September 02, 2008, 09:14:23 AM
i heared this in the radio
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Adonai on September 02, 2008, 09:47:25 AM
Will try for sure.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: novo on September 02, 2008, 10:06:46 AM
I stick to safari i think
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Adonai on September 02, 2008, 10:19:36 AM
I think I will try this for 2 days and then get back to Opera
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Raskal on September 02, 2008, 10:57:08 AM
probably will check it out
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Shizzle on September 02, 2008, 01:10:56 PM
I got the beta  It's fast
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Freak Star on September 02, 2008, 04:41:34 PM
it is very nice i have this now
is better than IE and FF

Google Chrome <3
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: WaDaFuG on September 02, 2008, 05:00:49 PM
going ta dl

EDIT:It pwns... faster and smoother
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Cody on September 02, 2008, 06:10:13 PM
Is it even out yet cause I can't find the download. >_>
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: WaDaFuG on September 02, 2008, 07:38:30 PM
lol

http://www.google.com/chrome (http://www.google.com/chrome)
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Flat Face on September 02, 2008, 10:50:42 PM
dling just cause im bored and like dling shit atm.. plus chrome is shiny

EDIT: LMFAO! guess what th installer does.. "downloading google chrome"

EDIT2: Don't mind it but its a bit slow i thinks
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: THEFTman on September 02, 2008, 11:27:44 PM
Quote from: Flat Face
EDIT: LMFAO! guess what th installer does.. "downloading google chrome"
What's so funny about that?  
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Pendji on September 02, 2008, 11:31:43 PM
Flat Face humour..
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Cody on September 03, 2008, 12:09:31 AM
My OS was currupted so I reformated.(Now I can play VC ) So i'm gonna try it out now.

Edit: woah, it's hella fast.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: VenomX on September 03, 2008, 04:46:09 AM
Seems faster than Firefox, it also has this awesome feature:

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You've gone incognito. Pages that you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files that you download or bookmarks that you create will be preserved, however.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Atomic Tom on September 03, 2008, 04:51:26 AM
Quote from: VenomX
Seems faster than Firefox, it also has this awesome feature:

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You've gone incognito. Pages that you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files that you download or bookmarks that you create will be preserved, however.
The same as Safari which is in my opinion is even better than Chrome.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Flat Face on September 03, 2008, 06:12:44 AM
Quote from: Atomic Tom
Quote from: VenomX
Seems faster than Firefox, it also has this awesome feature:

Quote
You've gone incognito. Pages that you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files that you download or bookmarks that you create will be preserved, however.
The same as Safari which is in my opinion is even better than Chrome.

oh cool, can you tell me where you got that quote from?

Baz you really shouldn't speak, theft.. you download an installer that downloads something else that installs it.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Pizzapie on September 03, 2008, 07:42:16 AM
trying it now
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Pendji on September 03, 2008, 08:17:18 AM
Quote from: Flat Face
Quote from: Atomic Tom
Quote from: VenomX
Seems faster than Firefox, it also has this awesome feature:

Quote
You've gone incognito. Pages that you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files that you download or bookmarks that you create will be preserved, however.
The same as Safari which is in my opinion is even better than Chrome.

oh cool, can you tell me where you got that quote from?

Baz you really shouldn't speak, theft.. you download an installer that downloads something else that installs it.
I dont post stuff about my pubes
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Flat Face on September 03, 2008, 08:25:16 AM
k its my default browser now




Quote from: Bazrun
Quote from: Flat Face
Quote from: Atomic Tom
Quote from: VenomX
Seems faster than Firefox, it also has this awesome feature:

Quote
You've gone incognito. Pages that you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files that you download or bookmarks that you create will be preserved, however.
The same as Safari which is in my opinion is even better than Chrome.

oh cool, can you tell me where you got that quote from?

Baz you really shouldn't speak, theft.. you download an installer that downloads something else that installs it.
I dont post stuff about my pubes


i don't remember topics you made months ago
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Adonai on September 03, 2008, 08:55:24 AM
Stop quoting this huge post?

Anyways, Installing it right now. I think it will be same story as Vista. Developers told : "hey! This gota pwn, this will be cool, bla bla bla". And when it's released, people tell : "It's pure shit!" However, will try. maybe this will really pwn.

Edit : Installed, testing right now. I will come up with a big review a bit later.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Ghost on September 03, 2008, 09:18:01 AM
Its actually running very smooth and efficient for me.
The only downside I have is that when you scroll down/up a page it seems to do it in blocks unlike other browsers where its nice and smooth. But that's not much of a problem. Built in spell checker is great too
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Firefly on September 03, 2008, 09:58:41 AM
Pretty impressive. Speed and feature-wise it's not much better than Opera, but I like the layout more so I guess I'll keep using Chrome for now. If Chrome doesn't have as many/any of the compatibility issues that Opera has, I'm sold.

Open-source is of course also a plus. Waiting for the Linux version now...
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Adonai on September 03, 2008, 10:12:26 AM
Quote from: firefly
Pretty impressive. Speed and feature-wise it's not much better than Opera, but I like the layout more so I guess I'll keep using Chrome for now. If this doesn't have the compatibility issues that Opera does, I'm sold.

Open-source is of course also a plus.

Exactly. I am using Opera for a few years now, and I feel that I am going to switch to Chrome. It works smooth and fast, but as Ghost has said it's the "block scrolling" there. But that's not a big deal.

*This post will be updated as I will test it further*
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RootCorE's Chrome review :

- "block scrolling" gets pretty annoying, but that's not a big deal

- lack of status bar (like "5% of page loaded or just a filling bar like in IE") is very bad for me, but I hope they will fix it. If not, it's an open-source browser and I will make that bar myself and share with everyone

- I personally like that thing when you start typing an address it automatically offers you some websites. It's comfortable if you remember only that beginning of and URL.

- I'd like to have more hotkeys there

- the worst thing for me is the lack of options. There's only some options, but I am used to shit load of them in Opera. I think they will make more ones in next version (at least I hope)

- built-in spellchecker is cool (right now it highlights the word "spellchecker" with red colour "lol")

Quote from: firefly
Agreed, it's a bit lacking in customization. The emphasis seems to be more on ease of use. I'm also hoping they'll implement more advanced options in the coming versions (tab preferences, homepage customization, smooth scrolling etc.). For now there's not a whole lot of things the user can adjust, but I'm sure at least part of it is because this is still beta.

- Yeah, and some custom skins. I don't like the default one too much. I'd like to make one for myself, like I did in Opera. Also I'm missing a menu at the top of the window. Tabs are at the very top of the windows and it's not comfortable to look on them if you have a big monitor. You need to move your eyes far away from the page, instead of just looking at the tabs, bars and menus like in Opera. Chrome is like semi-fullscreen browser because there's Start bar left at the bottom.

However, I am really looking forward to see the Linux version of Chrome.

- I like that when I point a link with mouse it shows me where the link goes in a pop-up bar the down-left corner (however, one more lack of customization : I would like to move that bar to upper-left)

- when you drag the tabs left or right it swaps places with other tabs in a very cool and smooth way

- YouTube : if I start to drag that red circle in the timeline it restarts the video from the very beginning. Very annoying.

- JS console is much better that in Firefox (in FF that console was crap)

- process manager is awesome. For example I can kill all Flash or JavaScript processes on the page
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Firefly on September 03, 2008, 10:27:43 AM
Quote from: RootCorE
- the worst thing for me is the lack of options. There's only some options, but I am used to shit load of them in Opera. I think they will make more ones in next version (at least I hope)
Agreed, it's a bit lacking in customization. The emphasis seems to be more on ease of use. I'm also hoping they'll implement more advanced options in the coming versions (tab preferences, homepage customization, smooth scrolling etc.). For now there's not a whole lot of things the user can adjust, but I'm sure at least part of it is because this is still beta.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Adonai on September 03, 2008, 10:36:16 AM
Quote from: firefly
Agreed, it's a bit lacking in customization. The emphasis seems to be more on ease of use. I'm also hoping they'll implement more advanced options in the coming versions (tab preferences, homepage customization, smooth scrolling etc.). For now there's not a whole lot of things the user can adjust, but I'm sure at least part of it is because this is still beta.

Yeah, and some custom skins. I don't like the default one too much. I'd like to make one for myself, like I did in Opera. Also I'm missing a menu at the top of the window. Tabs are at the very top of the windows and it's not comfortable to look on them if you have a big monitor. You need to move your eyes far away from the page, instead of just looking at the tabs, bars and menus like in Opera. Chrome is like semi-fullscreen browser because there's Start bar left at the bottom.

However, I am really looking forward to see the Linux version of Chrome.

*updated my upper review post with this one*
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Shifftee on September 03, 2008, 10:46:14 AM
 downloaded it, but can't start the setup.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Mythic on September 03, 2008, 10:50:18 AM
+ JavaScript performance

(http://i.afterdawn.com/storage/pictures/chrome_benchmark.jpg)

+ Loads pages faster than Firefox or Opera
+ Also starts up faster
+ Clear layout
- Google claims ownership of everything you create using Chrome (url=http://gizmodo.com/5044871/google-chrome-eula-claims-ownership-of-everything-you-create-using-chrome-from-blog-posts-to-emails]link[/url]

Though you have to remember that it's just a beta release.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Adonai on September 03, 2008, 10:50:39 AM
@Shifftee : I have 10 minutes. PM me and I will try to help you.

My post updated. Go here : click (http://www.gtastunting.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=39359&view=findpost&p=800959)
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: FIGHTER on September 03, 2008, 01:51:36 PM
its fast as hell
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: torekk on September 04, 2008, 07:34:12 AM
The reason why Google Crome is "fast" comes from more connections(so called pipe lining), which is possible to  do in FireFox aswell. I also do like FireFox because of all the addons, like adblock plus or noscript.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: fedex on September 04, 2008, 11:43:44 AM
I dled it, but it looks really good. faster, and use only ~30 mb from RAM. (firefox: 140-160mb)
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Knapman on September 04, 2008, 12:53:37 PM
Quote from: Flat Face
EDIT: LMFAO! guess what th installer does.. "downloading google chrome"
Just to let you know that's why the installer is small, you DL the installer which has non of the Chrome files in it and then it downloads them when you run the installer, alot of installers do this, nothing wierd at all.

I love google chrome, it's really great.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Pizzapie on September 04, 2008, 01:16:23 PM
sometimes it lags -.-
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Blaze on September 05, 2008, 11:50:00 AM
D/led it, tested it and I hate it :| The interface is weird, it lags alot, with crashes too. Downloads are slow.
Title: Google Chrome
Post by: Joe on September 05, 2008, 12:05:27 PM
Quote from: Flat Face
Quote from: Atomic Tom
Quote from: VenomX
Seems faster than Firefox, it also has this awesome feature:

Quote
You've gone incognito. Pages that you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files that you download or bookmarks that you create will be preserved, however.
The same as Safari which is in my opinion is even better than Chrome.

oh cool, can you tell me where you got that quote from?

Baz you really shouldn't speak, theft.. you download an installer that downloads something else that installs it.
FlatFace, the installer probably operates like that because it can get the files from a different server (E.G one running the File Transfer Protocol).

As for those moaning about customisation....


Open Source

Also, has anybody even noticed the text area thing? You can resize them.
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