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Posted on: July 8, 2009 - 5:35am
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Google Chrome
So.... is the browser any good?
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I have it and it is kind of cool. But I still use firefox for most stuff because I use several of the extensions that you can't really get to with chrome. That being said, chrome does tend to render pages just a hair faster.
Chrome also has an odd replacement for the venerable bookmark that I find to be a bit of a PIA.
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I'm using it right now. It's fast as hell and pretty intuitive.
For most of my purposes, it's the better choice. Firefox has gotten kind of clunky and glitchy, and frankly, there's just not a lot in chrome to go wrong. It's a very basic browser.
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I use a lot of extensions for my firefox. I've never tried chrome because I've been worried about getting the same usability. Do you find the lack of extensions to be problematic to your experience?
(I've also never tried chrome, because I don't particularly want to support google. I rather like open source.)
BigUniverse wrote,
"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."
I use precious few extensions. If you are an advanced web user, chrome will probably be frustratingly basic.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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Books about atheism
It's certainly very quick. It's probably the most efficient browser in terms of rendering currently out there; scores 100 on Aicd3 every time (though fails link test). When one cosiders how often Google's search engine is used for images, however, this should hardly be surprising.
As you can see, however, the cost for all that rendering power is...
...Trimmed-down features. The home page takes a queue from Opera, simply setting-up a series of 'channels' of most frequently viewed pages, which is very nice... but other than that, there's no bells or whistles. Heck, there's not even a toolbar.
You've got your tabs, backward, forward and refresh functions, a bookmark button and two drop-down menus containing the major functions typically displayed in the main toolbar (Opening new windows, zooming, History, copy or paste, etc). Honestly, this doesn't feel very intuitive for me; I'm glad Google is trying out new things, but it doesn't seem to work as well as a series of familiar & well-labeled drop downs (Mac & Linux users may see thing differently, given that they often use compact drop-downs like these).
All in all, I'm pretty impressed. honestly, rendering speed is more important to me than bells and whistles, so Chrome gets a solid 4.5 out of 5.
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
Also: Any bets on how long it'll be before Google makes it's own OS? Anyone?
I saw the ad today. 2010 estimated release
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
Books about atheism
I have tried both and have found Firefox to be the better browser. For me, extensions are the key. Mainly, I could not possibly live without Adblock Plus. After all, just by walking down the street you are being bombarded with advertisments - they are on posters, lamp-posts, billboards, people's t-shirts, on buses and cabs, etc. I have two massive SoCo billboards across the street from my flat... So long as I have the option to, advertising will be blocked from my computer. Why should I give up my valuable screen space to obnoxious flash adverts? I have a fairly weak laptop which can struggle with multiple flashing banners.
I also use Speed Dial. I don't know about you, but I spend the majority of my online time on a select few websites, and only relatively occasionally do I deviate to look at something else. I have my top 15 websites on my homepage, so I can access my favourite sites with either two clicks or a keyboard shortcut. It's beautifully streamlined, and saves me a lot of time. I know Chrome has a built-in alternative, but it's not nearly as powerful. The version I had didn't have any options for changing what your "favourite" sites are.
See, I don't think rendering time is such a big issue. It's all very well having super-fast Java-handling, but it may be negated by the fact you must scroll through a list of bookmarks to get to the site in question.
One thing I must admit - I love the look of Chrome. It's so simple, yet such a striking design - - if only it didn't have the permanent Google branding in the top right corner. Well, it just so happens that Firefox has that covered too! The theme I'm currently using is Chromifox Extreme, though it comes in several different flavours, including Graphite.
These add-ons are a testament to the near-fanatical Firefox fan-base. These add-ons are beautifully crafted, and totally free. Until Chrome gets AdBlock Plus, I will never shift!
Uh. Are you serious?
Holy [url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html]crap[/url]. I was just sorta joking around, but there it is.
Open source too, obviously to try and give Linux a run for it's money.
Too cool. WinDOH!s has it's days numbered now.
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
I'll try it out. I'll probably put it on a netbook.
If it has touchscreen support it could find a very good niche. I don't think they are designing it to overtake the Windows market...at least not yet.
Who knows what Google is planning in their San Francisco headquarters...
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
...San Francisco?
Oh no.
Oh dear God, no!!!
This is all a carefully crafted part of The Gay Agenda, isn't it? ISN'T IT????
Nom tried to warn us.
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
The storm.
It is coming.
Highly doubtful the google will over take microsofts domain, heck even linux hasn't been able to do that and a few years ago it was the cats meow and then some. Still they are chipping away at microsoft, and until microsoft makes a major major blunder (and no we ain't talking vista or windows ME type blunder) I doubt anyone is going to over take microsoft, unfortunately everyone and their mother...and grandmothers uses and knows how to use Windows. Why would the public change to something unfamiliar?
They wouldn't. Google is familiar though, and if they make an intuitive enough interface with developer and retail support, they could have a winner.
Windows 7 isn't that bad though. I've been using it for 6 months now.
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
Dont mean to snoop Kev (LIE)
but what is that "Acid3 Test" ?
and did you pass?
Which actually identifies one of the problems I've discovered with chrome... it automatically turns a printed web address into a link so the BBCode doesn't work. Easy to fix though
On subject - Google have announced the hardware firms they're going to work with on their OS.
Forget Jesus, the stars died so that you could be here
- Lawrence Krauss
Microsoft has the benefit of my doubts
...and I am suspicious of google because of the youtube account suspensions.
I also use Bing, not google.
People who think there is something they refer to as god don't ask enough questions.