OT: Google Chrome
Holy Hell!!! It takes a lot for me to sing the praises of a technology product, but I just have to say, Google Chrome delivers!!
Way faster, way better than Internet Explorer. I'm never going back to it.
For the longest time I avoided switching just because I figured it'd be a pain in the ass, have to learn new things, have to import all my passwords, etc.... Google Chrome imports your passwords and settings from another browser automatically, is very easy to learn, etc. A cleaner layout and just performs way better.
If you've thought about making the switch and haven't done so.... do it.
If you've never thought about switching..... do it.
Seriously my only regret about switching to Chrome is that I didn't do it sooner.
Just had to say this, because I wish someone would have said it to me a long time ago.
I just watched Toy Story 1 & 2 on Sunday. If Chrome gets me to be like Buzz Lightyear, then Chrome it is.
like adblock. And noscript. Some of the add-ons are amazingly useful and I loved them. Firefox also does a much better job with pop-ups than Chrome does.
BUT.
Since I now share a computer with the wife (graduated and moved back home in december and the old den is now the spare room after the kt was born as the spare room is now the kt's room), firefox doesn't want to seem to work on Win7 Pro with 2 profiles.
So I use Chrome to the exclusion of all others.
Chrome has an adblock extension and I would bet noscript as well.
edit: nevermind, decided to keep it clean.
Chrome has an "Incognito" feature that you can use without leaving a history trace on your computer. So if you want to look at something without your wife seeing it, you can. Just think of the last time you bought her a gift online and she found out. Now you can do your online shopping without her knowing you just bought flowers for her
Just so you know, it doesn't leave a trace in the browser but it does leave a trace on your computer and possibly any routers that it goes through.
could be applied to almost any Apple product. Good product, not a life saver.
where does Netscape Navigator fit in?
If you are on a website that crashes, only that tab will crash and not every tab opened in the browser. Chrome is the only one that does this I believe.
is supposed to do this as well, although it's been with varying success for me. opera and firefox definitely don't do this. opera is annoying in that you can't have 2 processes running at once without separate profiles. safari is overrated. chrome is definitely fast, although i've experienced a few page rendering issues (minor, though).
I should have said Chrome is the only one that actually does this.
The only issues i've run into on Chrome is that some pages/forms (very few) don't work correctly yet on it and some pictures that people post on this site don't show right. Other than that i love it.
Sorry, don't mean to be a dick. I'm not tech savvy at all but it's been years since I've used it. Firefox was a revelation, like, 6 years ago. Safari was cool 3 years ago. And yeah, Chrome has been a nice addition to the mix.
I know I was way behind the times relative to browsers, but I'm a creature of habit I guess.
At least I skipped directly to the latest..... making up for about 6 years in 6 seconds.
Safari was never cool.
It's a cleaner faster running version of Firefox. I downloaded it a couple weeks ago and it's worked pretty well for me. I still use Chrome about 80% of the time though.
The beta version that I am running on OS 10.6.4 has crashed my system multiple times. This was not a problem with the previous version...but that's what you get for running a beta. I really do like the browser overall.
At work I just had to switch back to firefox... it seems slow and ass backwards after chrome.
If you can switch, do it.
The only thing I don't like about Chrome is that it doesn't seem to load pictures very well. I get the white box with the red X way more often in Chrome than IE.
Yeah, it's weird. The funny thing is that if you reload a page (or load the image in another tab), they often load just fine. I have a feeling it's got something to do with the fact that the renderer and guts of Chrome run in separate threads (sandboxing FTW), but I couldn't say for certain.
My inner programming geek has a serious man-crush on Chrome for all of the little touches that add up: the efficient renderer (log2 memory reallocation for appending large strings? Fuck yes.), the security (sandboxing is fucking fantastic), the constant support and native implementation (the latest Dev build has native PDF support - no more shitty adobe reader!), and the list goes on.
Couple this with the fact that Chrome is basically a long, free beta for the new Chrome OS that Google is developing, and you have a well supported, well designed product that is free and will continue to be free for the foreseeable future. It's awesome.
Yeah, sometime I reload the page and it usually works then. But if I know I'm going to be looking at lots of pics, I just use IE.
I am guessing you spend a lot of time looking at pics :)
I don't know what xmarks is but Chrome is pretty smart so my hunch is it probably won't be difficult.
When I started Chrome for the first time, it asked me, "Do you want to import settings/passwords/etc. from another browser?" I clicked 'yes' and then it gave me the option to select IE....and boom! all done.
I don't know about xmarks but it's worth a try. If it doesn't work, it's not like you would have wasted a ton of time installing Chrome, it's quick.
I cannot emphasize how awesome Chrome is. It's like browsing the internet again for the first time. So it's worth a try.
(BTW Google is not paying me to say all this, it really is that good.)
So far, anyway, is that Chrome seems to allow many more pop-ups and ads through my filters than Firefox does. But it is definitely faster, and has some kick ass features.
Chrome broke Photoshop Elements and our screensaver. We had assumed the screensaver issue was something with one of the peripherals, but when Photoshop Elements stopped working and didn't work after a couple of reinstalls, my wife started looking around on the web and found out that multiple people had been getting the same error message and that once they uninstalled Chrome it magically worked again.
She uninstalled Chrome and Elements magically worked again, and as an added bonus, our screensaver works again. I still prefer Firefox to Chrome anyways -- if you have a problem with all the add-ons then you can, you know, not add all those add-ons. We only have a few that we find particularly useful.
I am stuck with IE at work. It is terrible. I used to have Firefox but they gave me a new computer where they had locked down the security much better, keeping me from installing it on the new one.
Ive been using Google Chrome for almost a Year. i downloaded it out of curiosity and ill never go back. In my opinion it is the best out there. It has something about it that makes it so much faster then the rest of them.
I've been an avid user of FireFox for about 2 years now and really enjoyed it over IE when I made that switch.
But I've always wondered about Google Chrome and it sounds like on here the majority opinion is that it is much much better than even FireFox. Gosh now I don't know if I should stick with it or switch. You're all so seemingly convincing!
But I just can't bring myself to switch to it. I'm too reliant on too many of my Firefox extensionis and features. In the features department, I will admit its probably mroe a matter of not knowing where they are in Chrome rather than them not being there, but that still speaks to its accessibility.
However, Firefox has gotten painfully slow. This isn't enough to bother me on my desktop, since its a beast, but on my laptop, its unbearable, and I usually end up switching back and forth depending on what I'm doing at the time. I was kind of hoping Firefox 4 would deal with the issue, so I tried getting the beta for it. Sure, it runs a little faster, but they also screwed with the interface and made me extremely angry in doing so. My switch to Chrome is, I think, inevitable, just not impending.
Hopefully Chrome gets NoScript soon. I'm very happy they have AdBlock, and with NoScript as well, that might be enough to push me over, even if I no longer get to have my theme, DownThemAll, w00twatcher, etc.
I love google chrome especially on my netbook, however, I have not been able to link my email up through chrome yet where you click on an email link and it comes up to your gmail. Am I missing something?
Chrome is the balls.
However, IE8 is better than what most people give it credit for. Yeah, its a bit bloated and slow, but its pretty good. And all pages still dont render properly in chrome. Whenever I have compatibility issues, I go right to IE8.
If you haven't tried IE8, give it a shot - its no chrome, but I'd say it has its uses. It definitely an improvement by leaps and bounds over the fucking debacle that is IE7.
"Whenever I have compatibility issues, I go right to IE8."
That is the most ass-backward thing I have read in a while. Most web pages look like this
if (Browser.IsInternetExplorer)
{
// Do this IE-specific code
}
else
{
// Do this standards-compliant code
}
Or sometimes you even have to have code to support older versions of IE, newer versions of IE, then everything else.
You were still using Internet Explorer?!?!?