Google Chrome

I'm at work on a network which is generally pretty slow, i opened kotaku.com on chrome and then i opened it on IE and firefox right afterwards adn it was at least 5x faster on chrome. Big difference. But nvidia.com with the huge flash animation / video in the middle of the page loaded faster on IE than chrome. I'll be using it as my main browser here at work and at home for a few days at least but I like it a lot so far.
 
Just installed it.

I like the minimal theme and it seems fast. There are a few Firefox plugins I can't live without at the moment, but Chrome has serious potential.
 
The good:
-Fast
-Drag and drop of tabs to create a new window (wish firefox had this...)

The bad:
-Custom window decorations (titlebar/frame)
-No choice where to install (and I did click customize...)

The simply odd :p :
-The browser has its own Task manager??
 
DeathFromBelow said:
Just installed it.

I like the minimal theme and it seems fast. There are a few Firefox plugins I can't live without at the moment, but Chrome has serious potential.
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This.

I won't be using this as my means of browsing just yet, but I will certainly be keeping an eye on it. Once they have an extension api with some people developing for it, I'll start using it.
 
Yah, I noted the Task Manager aspect quick, pretty COOL thing considering the basic design of it with the separated processes. If you notice one of them is using excessive RAM/CPU time, dump it, very slick feature.

One thing I can't tolerate: the GoogleUpdate service is installed with the browser and runs 24/7 so, I normally have a BIG ISSUE with such things. I don't ever let automagic updates run - I handle that stuff myself, when I think it needs to be done. But after reading the "comic book" that introduced Chrome I can understand why it's there for this browser, so I'll let that issue slide for a bit. I don't care that it's basically an idle process overall, I don't care that it's there for a relatively good reason, I care about stuff running when I wasn't informed it was going to be put in place.

Shame, shame. :)

Still having fun with it so far...
 
Joe Average said:
Yah, I noted the Task Manager aspect quick, pretty COOL thing considering the basic design of it with the separated processes. If you notice one of them is using excessive RAM/CPU time, dump it, very slick feature.
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True. Still odd. :p

One thing I can't tolerate: the GoogleUpdate service is installed with the browser and runs 24/7 so, I normally have a BIG ISSUE with such things. I don't ever let automagic updates run - I handle that stuff myself, when I think it needs to be done. But after reading the "comic book" that introduced Chrome I can understand why it's there for this browser, so I'll let that issue slide for a bit. I don't care that it's basically an idle process overall, I don't care that it's there for a relatively good reason, I care about stuff running when I wasn't informed it was going to be put in place.
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Where/What is this "comic book" everyone is talking about... must have missed it somehow...
 
Hmmm...

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But will work correctly after a couple of refreshes
 
Hmm I checked the task manager to see the footprint of this browser and also opened Firefox.

I see 3 Chrome.exe instances open. 2 of them are 20,000 K and one of them is 10,000K = 50,000 K

Then I see one Firefox.exe instance of 51,000 K

So basically both FF and Google have the same memory footprint but Chrome has 3 executables? Interesting
 
Anyone know how to install java for chrome? Its not working for me.
 
meh... noticed one big annoyance... apparently the language setting does not influence which google search is used... I am automatically relayed to google.de, which I do not want...
 
Is this cool or what? Stats for nerds!!! (but they need to change it to say Geeks, I think)...

chromestatseq2.png


Love it love it love it...
 
I'm loving this. The only problem I have with it, as with all other new browsers, is they don't have their own form a ClearType(ms developed). That is like the one thing MS still has up on these guys.

Some will know what I am talking about, but below is an example:
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The top is text with ClearType applied, the bottom is not, basically it just anti-aliases the test that is rendered to the screen.
 
Joe Average said:
Is this cool or what? Stats for nerds!!! (but they need to change it to say Geeks, I think)...

chromestatseq2.png


Love it love it love it...
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hrm, it looks like you have cleartype on yours, did you enable it somehow?? are you on vista?
 
v6maro said:
I'm loving this. The only problem I have with it, as with all other new browsers, is they don't have their own form a ClearType(ms developed). That is like the one thing MS still has up on these guys.

Some will know what I am talking about, but below is an example:
diff.png


The top is text with ClearType applied, the bottom is not, basically it just anti-aliases the test that is rendered to the screen.
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Just turn cleartype on via the control panel of windows, in the display icon their is an option to turn cleartype on for your entire pc, its in the appearance tab and then in effects, as cleartype is enabled in google chrome here via that setting.
 
EVIL-SCOTSMAN said:
Just turn cleartype on via the control panel of windows, in the display icon their is an option to turn cleartype on for your entire pc, its in the appearance tab and then in effects, as cleartype is enabled in google chrome here via that setting.
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sweet, thanks!
 
I have ClearType enabled on my entire OS, so... I have no idea why Chrome is picking it up. Here's two comparison shots.

ClearType off (system-wide):

cleartypeoffey9.png


ClearType on:

cleartypeonhm9.png


As you can note, the entire interface doesn't apparently support ClearType because of the Webkit foundation. Window aspects do respect ClearType, as noted by the URL showing the difference as well as any text that makes up parts of the interface - but not inside the actual browser rendering window because of Webkit.

Maybe they'll resolve that at some point, or at least offer some options for rendering that are user definable. But for now, content rendered by Webkit inside the browser itself will not respect ClearType.
 
Im using it now as we speak. So far so good but I like my firefox addons too much to uninstall it. There is a ton of potential in chrome though.
 
Not using it until i can find the Home button. Im lost without that...


Someone please tell me im just not looking hard enough...
 
Looking at the task manager, new tabs seem to take a decent chunk of memory, especially as compared to FF. I'm sure that will be optimized as time goes on...
 
criccio said:
Not using it until i can find the Home button. Im lost without that...


Someone please tell me im just not looking hard enough...
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wrench (hehe) --> options --> home page --> show home button on the toolbar.
 
I don't know if anyone has brought this up but, Chrome is released under a BSD license, so there is mountains of potential right there. It also means there will probably be cross platform versions even if Google doesn't do it themselves (assuming Chrome turns out to be a great browser).
 
I'm trying it but I don't think I'll be using it for long. Using the scroll area on my trackpad works in every program correctly but in Crome I can use it to scroll down but not up.
 
Ok, I installed it, tried it, didn't like it, uninstalled it. Now I've got GoogleUpdate.exe still lingering on my system. I don't see any sort of uninstaller for this. How can I remove this? I've seen some suggestions to simply disable the service in services.msc and disable it from msconfig, and then delete the exe, but this just seems like a dirty way to fix something that should be just uninstalled with the application...

The way I found out about this still lingering on my system was after I uninstalled, ZoneAlarm blew a flag saying GoogleUpdate.exe was trying to access the internet. Also, I have no other Google apps installed on my system. This is the first Google app I've ever installed on this computer.
 
xXxDieselxXx said:
Hmm I checked the task manager to see the footprint of this browser and also opened Firefox.

I see 3 Chrome.exe instances open. 2 of them are 20,000 K and one of them is 10,000K = 50,000 K

Then I see one Firefox.exe instance of 51,000 K

So basically both FF and Google have the same memory footprint but Chrome has 3 executables? Interesting
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Chrome runs each tab as a separate process. So you probably had 3 tabs open. This way, if one particular website/tab crashes, the rest of your tabs remain untouched.
 
Interesting. Chrome installs itself deep inside the Docs and Settings folder under your user profile (the one used to install it), and not in Program Files. That's a first in my experience...

Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google

The Google Updater is buried in there also, so... because it doesn't specifically have an uninstaller for that service, a manual deletion, manual disabling of the service, and then manually removing the entry in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

for the DWORD:

"Google Update"

seems to be necessary. That's a bit off, I must say, and pretty convoluted to boot...

Weird.
 
I agree, but I can see that being taken care of once people start to complain that google updater is left behind.
 
So far I like it. It's fast and uses few resources. I also have the IE8 beta and find it to be faster than chrome or firefox. Though I just hate the layout of IE.

But chrome does have serious potential.
 
Joe Average said:
Interesting. Chrome installs itself deep inside the Docs and Settings folder under your user profile (the one used to install it), and not in Program Files. That's a first in my experience...

Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google

The Google Updater is buried in there also, so... because it doesn't specifically have an uninstaller for that service, a manual deletion, manual disabling of the service, and then manually removing the entry in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

for the DWORD:

"Google Update"

seems to be necessary. That's a bit off, I must say, and pretty convoluted to boot...

Weird.
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Good, imo. No reason a web browser needs to install in a system location.

I tried uninstalling Chrome earlier just to check for that sort of thing and also saw the google updater thing. I'd be willing to write off the Google Updater thing as a beta bug. I've since reinstalled it but hang on to FF due to plug ins. I think it's got pretty awesome potential and the fact that it is FOSS like Firefox is awesome.
 
devman said:
Good, imo. No reason a web browser needs to install in a system location.

I tried uninstalling Chrome earlier just to check for that sort of thing and also saw the google updater thing. I'd be willing to write off the Google Updater thing as a beta bug. I've since reinstalled it but hang on to FF due to plug ins. I think it's got pretty awesome potential and the fact that it is FOSS like Firefox is awesome.
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I don't agree at all. Mostly because of the organizational aspect of it. I just come to expect nowadays for any program to be installed to X:/.../Program Files/. The thing I really didn't like about this was that the installer didn't even give me a choice of where to install it to. I spent a solid 10 minutes trying to find where it installed the files so I could see what was installed with Chrome.
 
Hum... anyone else getting a black highlight when trying to highlight text on this site? I'm getting a white highlight on black text in Firefox.
 
Super dark gray with black text when highlighting, yep, that's what I get. Something I'm sure they'll address as time goes by and people report it as not something they prefer. ;)
 
I would really like a customizable interface. The default is nice but the location of the bookmarks is very annoying. I want to just click the bookmarks button, then scroll to what I want, then click it. However, I will need to add back a whole bookmarks bar to get that one bookmarks button that I want!

My screen is 1680pixels wide, I don't need that incredibly long omnibar, they can fit a bookmarks button in there. Since I know my preferences don't represent everyone, I hope customization is implemented soon.

Overall I love how minimal it appears and I want it to stay that way. I noticed a few people missing the progress bar. I don't know if they noticed that the progress notification only pops up at the bottom of the window while loading. When it's done loading it goes away to save room when there's no progress to report on. This makes sense.

I like that they chopped out the windows interface buttons. But I'm used to starting at the upper left to access functions typically listed under "File". All Windows windows follow this rule, and so it becomes second nature to do this, other interfaces are designed with similar functions at the upper left because they know that's what people are used to, so they preserve that consistency.

The big factor that will probably stop me from using it for now is the change in hotkey usage.

Most people waste mouse buttons on back and forward. They don't need to be on seperate buttons! I bind mouse 4 to lshift. This means I can just hold mouse4 and roll my mousewheel to get back/forward, and the wheel allows me to jump back or forward multiple pages without having to repeatedly hit a button(especially jumping into and out of threaded forum conversations). Also, lshift+Mouse1 opens a new window!. This frees up mouse 5 for minimize window(Or close window/tab as others might want to use). However, Chrome does not support shift+mousewheel navigation, so I have lost a button and some navigation comfort.

The awesome:
-Omnibar
-Task Manager
-Tab manipulation
-Indivdual processes for each tab

I hate to bring it up, but it has to be said. I don't think everyone will remember to browse porn in incognito mode. And that means that new screenshot-based homepage of most-visited sites is bound to cause some hilarious goofs.
 
Highlighting for me is blue highlight with white text on this site, same as every other browser i have used.
 
I guess it probably depends on the OS's color settings.

I found something pretty cool. While searching for words in a page (ctrl + f), take a look at the page's scrollbar.
 
I'm still amazed that people run a web browser widescreen/fullscreen on super hi res monitors these days, I'll never understand it. On a tiny one, like 1024x768 or 1280x1024 and even the ubiquitous 1280x800 on WXGA laptops which is the standard resolution these days I can understand it, but... full screen? At 1680x1050? Or higher? Geezus...

Not everyone has a 4 button mouse, so personally I prefer mouse rockers which I find to be infinitely superior. Hold Right and click Left, Back - hold Left and click Right, Forward. Once it becomes ingrained it's a tough habit to break and yes, that was the first "gripe" I had about Chrome but, it's beta, it's the first public release, it will improve and addons/plugins will be created for it and mouse rockers will be there, sooner or later so I'm cool with that.

Tabs are easy enough, Control+T. My left hand is pretty much always on the keyboard, the right hand switches from mouse to keyboard as required for typing. I can hit Control+T faster than most people can click a mouse button, but that's just me. :)
 
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