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[Dr Lobster*]

i struggled to find the correct forum to post this in, but... has anybody tried Google Chrome yet?



it has some really really neat features which build on the firefox awesome bar and the interface of opera.

there's a few bugs and glitches in the rendering but it looks really promising.

my wishlish before i could even consider making it my default browser would be:

> an adblocking plugin. it's amazing how all those ads slow down the page rendering, so i'd like to get rid of them

> mouse gestures - can't live without these now.

give it a go at www.google.com/chrome

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

[Fulvio]

Intesting beast. I will give it a whirl.
It imported all pertinent info from Firefox. However

[James]

Very, very interesting. I played the video explaining the story behind Google Chrome, then took the tour of its features and I must say: I'm majorly impressed. However, I will not use a beta so I'll wait for it to come to completion. Thanks for the heads-up on this. Looks very promising. Particularly like the Incognito browsing ability.

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James
It's later than you think.

Firefox 3.5.3, IE 8

[Don_HH2K]

Everybody I know that's tried Google Chrome have universally been saying that it's a RAM hog. I haven't had time to test it myself, but I'd guess it's due to each page spawning as a separate process, if I even have the Chrome design philosophy correct.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2 x64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071912 Minefield/3.0.1 (mmoy CE K8Q-X06)

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[Antony]

Thanks for reporting.

One key thing about Google Chrome: it is based on WebKit, a technology originally derived from the Konqueror browser’s KHTML software library by Apple, and heavily sponsored by Apple. WebKit is best known as the engine for Apple's Safari web browser on Mac OS X and Windows platforms.

Don't forget to check out the Google Chrome comic book (by Google)

A Mac OS X version is in the works, but Google hasn't said when it will be released.

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[Fulvio]

Google Browser built upon outdated insecure Safari version

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[Antony]

[Fulvio]

More comments in the same newsletter, about Google Chrome speed: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2507&tag=nl.e539 and, about its security. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1844&tag=nl.e539

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP3, 512 MB, 3.0.15 regular, 3.5.5 regular and portable , TB2.0.0.23, Flock2.5.2, IE8.0, SM2.0, Google Chrome2.0.x, Zone Alarm Firewall; AVG9.0, JRE1.6_17

[James]

Let's not be too quick to place judgment upon Google Chrome. It's still Beta and Google will put its substantial resources to getting the job done right. I'm actually rather excited about this project and will reserve judgment until a final piece of software is available. Good articles, Antony.

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James
It's later than you think.

Firefox 3.5.3, IE 8

[Anonymosity]

What about the user agreement, though? Google has said that they will claim title to anything posted with their browser.

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[Antony]

[Fulvio]

[jjssparkle]

It's alright at first glance I suppose; just can't seem to get Flash to ignite and work properly

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[Antony]

Eric Schmidt, who once led the Java development in Sun Microsystems then became the CTO. Currently, he is the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. and Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. Eric Schmidt pointed out that the Google Chrome was designed to stop Microsoft from Balkanizing the Internet in ways that favor its own services, Financial Times reports.

"Microsoft has a history of favouring its own applications and I can give you 500,000 pages of court testimony, document web blogs and so forth and so on about that," Mr. Schmidt said. "We think that the browser continues to be an important platform; that the browser wars of 10 years ago were right: the browser matters."

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[jjssparkle]

It would be nice to see a 'Home' button added rather than having to hover over back arrow/history everytime I needed to go back to home page for something. Perhaps a just bookmarks folder as well rather than having to access bookmarks soley by dropping down 'always show bookmarks bar' every time. Later.

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