Anyone try Google Chrome yet?

[Tektonik]

Thoughts?

[ghostsofgiants]

1. What is it?

[PeaceNikki]

2. Neato! It's a browser!

Downloading now!

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Interesting. I'll check it out when I get home.

[hunter]

3. In just a few minutes of play, I like!

http://www.google.com/chrome

It's very similar in look and feel to the way I have Opera set up, almost to the point I wonder if it checked my Opera settings. (Or maybe google's look and feel developers think like I do.)

[panzerfaust]

5. Yes and YES

It is very fast, and has a small memory footprint.

Currently am using FF3, which will continue to be my default as Chrome does not seem to support multiple FIXED (as opposed to changing based upon frequency of visited) home pages: and I rely upon half-a-dozen (of which 5 are on my own server) pages to get through the day, and have only used it for about 6 hours and have no idea of how it will hold up.

I also miss a lot of the widgets that I have added to FF - though Chrome does not seem to need some of them.

The Chrome release (still BETA by the way - but then so is gmail I believe) has gone much more smoothly than Apple's Safari did. Safari did not properly handle even the default font set on Windoz computers so the pages were all initially illegible. After a week Apple had not fixed this (like only a problem on 90% of the computers using the WWW) - expect Apple has fixed that now, but after Apple actually released such crap as a shipping app I will never use it.

Sadly, though wisely, google has only released the Windoz XP/Vista version of the app - though they do plan to support UNIX and MacOS.

Have used FF since FF1. Prior to that used Opera, B4 that Netscape.

Only have used IE when forced to by poor page design, or by monopolistic supporting company policy (ie I must use IE8 at work).

Chrome is a joy so far. Very fast with JS - as it has a compiler rather than an interpreter (so it only need to read the JS ONCE per page).

The main problem I have had with FF (though FF3 is better) is the incredibly poor memory management that the program has - both hogging and leaking. Chrome seems to have learned from this and have not, yet, had any memory related problems.

Give Chrome a try - it will make you smile.

[panzerfaust]

6. Chrome Download Link update

Apparently there has been some download link problems for Chrome

This is now posted on the google chrome forum as being the correct download link:

http://www.google.com/chrome/

Remember it is WINDOZ XP/Pista only!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. The hell? It sends you off chasing your own tail. "Download" link leads to the home page. -nt

[Zuiderelle]

8. I got it to finally download. Had to reboot and it didn't import my bookmarks or history...

but seems pretty good.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. I can has direct download link?

Also, I faintly remember reading the source code is available too. Any truth to that?

[Zuiderelle]

10. I take it back. It sucks. Back to Firefox.

[panzerfaust]

15. Won't import links if FF running

Of course, it does not tell you that!

Under the little wrenchy thing is a choice to manually import your links

[panzerfaust]

16. Still using it (some) this morning

A MAJOR problem for me is that Chrome allows ads - whereas in FF AdBlock (et al) keep about 90% of them from showing. I had forgotten how hard it was to read the various newspaper sites with all the ads flashing at you.

Also, the current release of JAVA is not supported by Chrome. In order to use JAVA plug-ins (eg: http://www.weather.gov/sat_loop.php?image=ir&hours=6 ) you have to install a BETA of the next version from Sun ( http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea.jsp )

The XP system I'm running Chrome on black-screened (ie the next step beyond the Blue-Screen-Of-Death - the system spontaneously rebooted) whilst loading multiple tabs in Chrome. As I have not had a spont-reboot since replacing the powersupply several months ago I am suspicious that Chrome may also have memory leaks.

It is noticeably faster than FF (even than FF + FasterFox), and this is only the second day of the beta release, but spontaneous reboots will kill the launch.

[Lance_Boyle]

22. why would google (an ad company) want you to block ads?

There's a reason adblock is not implemented on Chrome.

I, for one, do not welcome our new eyeball-seeking intarwebs overlords. Google can kiss my fleshy, pock-marked ass.

[NMDemDist2]

21. my first attempt failed too, 2nd time, imported everything no prob n/t

[Zuiderelle]

23. Ok, I gave it one last attempt... and 3rd time was a charm.

Let's see how it goes. So far so good.

[NMDemDist2]

11. so far so good!! and man it's FAST!

does it have a speel checker??? :rofl:

why yes, yes it does!!

woohoo!

yeah, I'm liking it a lot so far.....

[NJmaverick]

20. The smilies lookup table pops up in a fraction of the time it takes IE

[Zero Division]

12. Trying it now. I like it so far.

I successfully imported my bookmarks and passwords from FF, too.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

13. I'm using it now - boy is it fast!

So far so good!

[BlueJazz]

14. I like it.

[NJmaverick]

17. Am trying it now, based on this thread

need to see if it's any good.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

18. Not available for mac yet.

[NJmaverick]

19. OK, I found one big plus with Chrome

it leaves a much smaller memory footprint, than IE. So if you have an older computer that might be a little light in the memory dept. this might be the browser for you.

[ghostsofgiants]

24. Crashes every time I try to go into Options.

Weak.

[no name no slogan]

25. Until the port the "Stop! Hammertime" plug-in to it, I won't touch it

that and they don't have a version for OSX yet.