Google Chrome Beta

VETDRMS said:
Ok, so why can't it do RSS feeds? I get 99% of my tech news from RSS feeds... If you search the online help for Chrome RSS has 0 results... How would you overlook something 90% of web pages have?

*shrug*
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90% of tech sites maybe but certainly 90% of all websites do not have an RSS feed.
 
using it right now seems pretty speedy i like the interface and style, one question though did anyone else's av go off when they installed it? kaspersky told me it was a Trojan being installed, no biggie just asking.
 
Steve said:
Well, I am seeing like 10 - 15 second load times for a page versus 2 seconds for IE8 and Firefox. I am on a 10Mbps / 1Mbps cable connection.


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That EULA really bothers me:
"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."
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You mean you have a problem with them recording everything you ever enter into your browser so that they can get into your bank account then give that information out to others? What is so secret about your bank account that you don't want others to have access to it? :D

That there is enough for me to never even install the software on my machine or any other machine. Damn google and their desire to install a keylogger on every machine in the world.
 
Mac[X-D];1032978215 said:
using it right now seems pretty speedy i like the interface and style, one question though did anyone else's av go off when they installed it? kaspersky told me it was a Trojan being installed, no biggie just asking.
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It is probably their keylogger being flagged.
 
So let me get this right.

"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."
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If I have a gmail account, and I send a confidential email to someone, Google has the right to grab that email, and post it somewhere on the internet for the whole world to laugh and see?

I shouldn't be mentioning the fact of sending confidential email using gmail anyways... Geez.
 
akapaulk said:
So let me get this right.



If I have a gmail account, and I send a confidential email to someone, Google has the right to grab that email, and post it somewhere on the internet for the whole world to laugh and see?

I shouldn't be mentioning the fact of sending confidential email using gmail anyways... Geez.
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Not just that but any information that you enter. You visit your bank site, they record all your data, you send emails they record all your data, you make a purchase on newegg they record all your data, you post on hardocp they record all your data. If you type it into their browser they record it for later use as they see fit.
 
"The question isn't are you paranoid... the question is are you paranoid enough?"

You people are funny sometimes... rampant paranoia, fear, FUD, all of it rolled into one. Amazing. As if anyone online is anonymous, untraceable. Stop watching so many hacker movies and get edjumicated about how all this stuff works.

No amount of proxies, no amount of firewalls, no pr0n mode addons or special gizmos will ever keep you that secure.

No one is innocent, no one is safe, and most certainly, no one is secure.
 
I like it. Fast. Slick. nice. Thing is though, Firefox is the darling of the internet.
It's ridiculously amazing support for extensions and like make it irreplaceable really.
I think Google are going to have a very difficult time getting that level of user generated functionality in to it's browser, unless of course FF extensions become compatible with Chrome - which is under-handed to say the least.
Firefox is still the best. And it will be interesting when it's next version is released because of the Javascript improvements they've said they'll be incorporating. It may be the case that Chrome will get some attention for a while, and the the next version of Firefox comes out and rains on its perade.

Having said that. I've just noticed that Chrome does appear to be compatible with Firefox extensions.
I'm thinking this because as I type this, my Brit Eng dictionary is pointing out my numerous spelling mistakes - however, and this is purely guess work, because Chrome doesn't fully support the functionality I can't right click and select the correctly spelt word.
If my guess is correct, then Chrome is a serious contender.
 
I just noticed the post and decided "hey, what the hell"

Its an amazingly fast browser, with little known problems. The large amount of blue at the top is a little annoying, but i'm sure i'll be able to modify that in the future. Now, if I could only get adblockplus on here...
 
Love the ability to grab a tab at the top and throw it over to my second monitor. Slick.

Here goes the new Google OS!
 
Thus far, I really don't mind Chrome - only thing is, Adblock Plus on Firefox really has spoiled me, I can't believe all the flash ads I'm seeing on some pages that I've never seen before.
 
Same thing here, need the flash blocking plugins and script blocker, still its a pretty awesome browser, maybe its just me being stupid but it feels much faster than FF, only thing that has really pissed me off so far is that i cant hold down the middle mouse button and use it for scrolling. (Hold it down and move the mouse up and down ya know :) )
 
Meocene said:
I like it. Fast. Slick. nice. Thing is though, Firefox is the darling of the internet.
It's ridiculously amazing support for extensions and like make it irreplaceable really.
I think Google are going to have a very difficult time getting that level of user generated functionality in to it's browser, unless of course FF extensions become compatible with Chrome - which is under-handed to say the least.
Firefox is still the best. And it will be interesting when it's next version is released because of the Javascript improvements they've said they'll be incorporating. It may be the case that Chrome will get some attention for a while, and the the next version of Firefox comes out and rains on its perade.

Having said that. I've just noticed that Chrome does appear to be compatible with Firefox extensions.
I'm thinking this because as I type this, my Brit Eng dictionary is pointing out my numerous spelling mistakes - however, and this is purely guess work, because Chrome doesn't fully support the functionality I can't right click and select the correctly spelt word.
If my guess is correct, then Chrome is a serious contender.
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you do realize that Google is a huge shareholder (80%) of FF...

In 2-3 years, Google will retire FF and everyone will be using Chrome. It will just take time, wait and see ;)
 
Gotta be careful when trying to discuss adblocking or Flash-ad blocking, especially here at this forum as it's against the rules. I know people using Chrome are now seeing a shitload of content they've never seen before because of such plugins for their current browsers, but... even so... ;)
 
Exavior said:
You mean you have a problem with them recording everything you ever enter into your browser so that they can get into your bank account then give that information out to others? What is so secret about your bank account that you don't want others to have access to it? :D

That there is enough for me to never even install the software on my machine or any other machine. Damn google and their desire to install a keylogger on every machine in the world.
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You realize that Chrome is open source and the code can and will be vetted for such things, and can be forked as well. It isn't in Google's interest to do something like that.
 
Stuff that I have problem with

I cant find where to manage plugins.
I cant find where to print preview


Major Problem with popups?
It stops a popup and yet I have a website that the popup redirects to a pdf file. And it seems like The popup file will download eventhough it was blocked.
 
devman said:
You realize that Chrome is open source and the code can and will be vetted for such things, and can be forked as well. It isn't in Google's interest to do something like that.
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then why add it to the EULA?
 
I'm curious as to what Steve means by "sloooowwww" because on mine it's fast, ridiculously fast. But then again I have a Q6600 at 3 GHz and 8GB of DDR2 800 sooo... tied to an old 250GB SATA I drive.
 
The navigation is really starting to get under my skin. The tabs are too far away from the website, and the Bookmarks list is opposite the key browser buttons (similar problems with IE7). You have to enable the home option, or simply deal with having a tab for every single window. With multiple tabs open and all the same websites, Firefox uses approximately 1/2 the memory and I gather memory would increase as more tabs are opened.
 
In addition, I've taken a look at task manager regarding memory management of the program:




I seems to work fast, but I'm wondering if this is just a placebo.
 
BrndNtrl said:
The navigation is really starting to get under my skin. The tabs are too far away from the website, and the Bookmarks list is opposite the key browser buttons (similar problems with IE7). You have to enable the home option, or simply deal with having a tab for every single window. With multiple tabs open and all the same websites, Firefox uses approximately 1/2 the memory and I gather memory would increase as more tabs are opened.
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Have you been checking RAM usage using Chrome's built in Task Manager and the about:memory page, or are you just taking a peek at Windows Task Manager which is highly inaccurate more often than not? Just curious... because when I load the exact same tabs, Chrome is using a lot less.

Also, if you're using adblockers/Flashblockers or any kind of blocking plugin whatsoever you're not making a fair comparison as those things being blocked would typically cause Firefox to use MORE RAM.

Funny how people miss that, ain't it?
 
The answer is no, I'm not using a blocking plugin beyond what is built into Firefox. Chrome's Task Manager matches the Windows Task Manager, so I have no reason to believe that it's not telling me the truth as to how much memory is being used.
 
Just installed it, found a couple things I do like and some things I don't like.

Do:
Pulling tabs around to new windows/grouping them is kinda neat, not sure if its just the novelty factor though.

Don't:
Using my laptop's touchpad, I can't scroll up.
Can't manage bookmarks

I don't understand the application shortcuts, isn't that just a shortcut link like you could do by dragging the url on the desktop like any other browser?

Overall, its a pretty good start. It's nice to see see another competitor enter the arena and shake things up a bit too.
 
BrndNtrl said:
In addition, I've taken a look at task manager regarding memory management of the program:




I seems to work fast, but I'm wondering if this is just a placebo.
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each tab is given its own process to help the engine go faster and increase stability, also prevents from the whole browser from crashing when one tab crashes. And i just installed chrome, and its fast, but not to noticeably faster then my FF which has all teh great add-ons...
 
Seems quick... unfortunately if there's no mouse gestures, I likely use Opera instead.
 
Well my word - Hell hath frozen ova!
IE:
IEspeedtest.PNG

FF:
FFspeedtest.PNG

Chrome:
ChromeSpeedTest.PNG

I ran each test on each browser - test results were near identical each time!
 
Here's something I just tried. A totally clean install of Chrome against a totally clean install of Firefox 3.0.1 to compare CPU usage with Flash application. I hit 3 websites, HardOCP, MSN, and YouTube to let the browsers just idle on the pages knowing that all 3 of them have active Flash content.

Take a look at this:

flashcpuusageur8.png


Anyone else able to do that, a simple clean install with no edits or modifications of either browser, then load those three pages (hardocp.com, msn.com, youtube.com) and let the browsers idle on those three pages, then look at the Windows Task Manager and see how the CPU usage looks.

Very interesting...
 
Meocene said:
Well my word - Hell hath frozen ova!
IMAGES IMAGES IMAGE
I ran each test on each browser - test results were near identical each time!
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yeah you probably wanna run a few thousand more tests on dedicated lines (end to end, not just the server or the client) before you draw any false conclusions regarding performance. not to mention that sort of downloading is more influenced by TCP/IP and the network stack of your OS than browser....
 
Joe Average said:
"The question isn't are you paranoid... the question is are you paranoid enough?"

You people are funny sometimes... rampant paranoia, fear, FUD, all of it rolled into one. Amazing. As if anyone online is anonymous, untraceable. Stop watching so many hacker movies and get edjumicated about how all this stuff works.

No amount of proxies, no amount of firewalls, no pr0n mode addons or special gizmos will ever keep you that secure.

No one is innocent, no one is safe, and most certainly, no one is secure.
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That's not the point. Just because it possible for your shit to be tracked doesn't mean it should be completely archived and easily searched. Ugh.. Have fun in the world your mindset is allowing to be created.

Meocene said:
Well my word - Hell hath frozen ova!
IE:
IEspeedtest.PNG

FF:
FFspeedtest.PNG

Chrome:
ChromeSpeedTest.PNG

I ran each test on each browser - test results were near identical each time!
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Hahaha I hope this is a fakepost.
 
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