Google Chrome

I read through that entire comic yesterday and was thoroughly entertained. Looking forward to a mac version, browser looks very nice.

Will probs give this a spin, like the idea that if one tab crashes, they don't all go down.

Tons of privacy concerns on this out there, plus it's invasive on your machine. I'd give it a couple weeks.

yes there is the issue of the rather ridiculously broad user agreement that reads like you're signing every piece of info you use online to google for whatever they want, which is not really on and a worry anyway with google, which makes me want to switch to broader search engines where this isn't an issue, it's really rather annoying if anything else.

Also you can do pretty much what it does with firefox's addon's except firefox is a bit slower, you can remove and add more features with it firefox too which is handy, it will probably develop but i reckon firefox will too. ie can fk off tho.

Aside from the Vista look, I love the minimalist UI. Great stuff.

The way FF3 displayed results from the Awesomebar bookmark/url search was clunky. I like the way Chrome does it.

Not sure about the resizeable text areas...

swears said:

Will probs give this a spin, like the idea that if one tab crashes, they don't all go down.

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cool, yahoo mail always destroys firefox in this way when I use it

Their software engineers look a bit scary though.

mms said:

yes there is the issue of the rather ridiculously broad user agreement that reads like you're signing every piece of info you use online to google for whatever they want, which is not really on and a worry anyway with google, which makes me want to switch to broader search engines where this isn't an issue, it's really rather annoying if anything else.

Also you can do pretty much what it does with firefox's addon's except firefox is a bit slower, you can remove and add more features with it firefox too which is handy, it will probably develop but i reckon firefox will too. ie can fk off tho.

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the whole thing about having multiple processes instead of threads is the same architecture that is used with modern operating systems to prevent the whole OS going down when an app crashes, but it does mean a substantially larger footprint to chrome as a whole.

re. the user agreement, we are now entering the age of cloud computing where practically everything will be stored on the .net. witness the cheap netbooks (underpowered tiny laptops that sell for 200 quid) making a big hit with people. there are definitely concerns with google, not so much for instability, but more for privacy and whether its the right thing for a private company to hold so much of the nets infrastructure.

however its not like anyone else is really any better. ms has a new search engine, but i'm not trusting them either. even mozilla corp (the company associated with mozilla.org, set up to process the millions of earnings from google searches performed through the firefox search tool) has caused a massive row cos they want to insert what is essentially spyware into the next version of firefox. it uploads your browsing stats to website owners, apparently anonymous. and let me tell you as a computer programmer, thats utter bullshit - there is no anonymity on the net.

many people find it shocking that someone is making money from all those dedicated open source programmers efforts. fucking advertising. if it didn't pay my bills too, i'd hate it even more.

take your choice about who will view your data. myself, i'm not blind to googles faults, but i find their mash-ups of search, map and other data to be astonishingly innovative, and right now i'm throwing my lot in with them.

Pestario said:

cool, yahoo mail always destroys firefox in this way when I use it

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yeah but man, fuck yahoo mail.

they charge 25 quid a year to download your own fucking email, gmail do it for free. plus that annoying ad sidebar (and i don't hate all ads per se, just when they ruin the user experience). on a small monitor that is a really big UI problem.

but worse than that, the spam issue. my yahoo account got overrun with it. i had all the filters on, but nonetheless, i had 200 or more porno viagra spams a day, massively dwarfing my real mail. when i got in touch they sent me a fucking form letter, a 101 on spam. the second time i emailed them, same again. so i decamped to google. it was a big thing for me, cos i've had that yahoo mail address for nearly ten years.

My google chrome packed it in yesterday. . . failure to recognize flash player or java - one of them.

no youtube, and some sites couldn't show pictures.

anyone else had the problem?

No mouse gestures, no good - so I have uninstalled it (Opera has had them built in since 2001 and there are plugins for Firefox). Once you have used mouse gestures there's no way back.

Just installed this. All good, except I can't use Zshare for some reason. the download never starts. When I use other file sharing sites, there's no download window of dialogue box or whatever -- it just starts and thre's an icon at the bottom of the screen. But Zshare just does nothing. Is it something to do with the setings? Can anyone help? The browser is so sparse, it's like there should be something I menu entry to change this, but it would mess with the mnml look.

Lots of people seem to have been having problems with Zshare -

http://board.low-bee.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=53529

It's definitely been all over the place for the last week or so - and I'm on Safari.

Ness Rowlah said:

No mouse gestures, no good - so I have uninstalled it (Opera has had them built in since 2001 and there are plugins for Firefox). Once you have used mouse gestures there's no way back.

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it beats the shit out of opera as a finely tuned javascript engine, and its faster. that has the edge for me over mouse gestures (there's always the keyboard you lazy get!) lets face it, opera is the lib dems, the lembit opik of the browser world.


i've really gone off firefox though, it feels so sluggish compared to most browsers now. i don't actually need most of those extensions unless i'm developing. the advantages of having a non-bloated sleek stripped down browser trumps all of that. i've given up blocking ads, as i can't, for my job. and that was the main extension i loved the most in ff (apart from firebug maybe). if you you want the fastest, simplest experience, safari and chrome are the way to go.
horses for courses, innit.

How are people finding this a few months down the line? I think its a fantastic browser but I've been having some trouble with Hotmail. It started off fine but now it won't let me open emails. One of my friends who uses it has had the same problem.

i have trouble posting blogs and stuff here sometimes. the text box is different. you get automatic spell-check and a bigger screen. it looks much better than Explorer or Safari. not sure about the load time however. seems a bit slower.

the best part is that it saves all your downloads in a separate page, so you can re-start canceled downloads or download something a second time if you accidentally deleted it.

ed: also can't send emails with Yahoo!