Google Chrome - new search engine

[VladTepes]

Juts installed it.

Loving it already !


Google Chrome - Download a new browser (http://www.google.com/chrome/index.html?hl=en&brand=CHMG&utm_source=en-hpp&utm_medium=hpp&utm_campaign=en)

Why ?

MUCH quicker then IE or Firefox.

Less cluttered / allows you to see more of your favourite website (ie AULRO) at a time.

Has a bookmark bar so that you can put AULRO right on the page when you open a new window, ready to click on.

[dmdigital]

...and based on Safari:p

[abaddonxi]

Here's a not-so-favourable review from the SMH-
Review: Google Chrome lacks polish under the hood - Breaking News - Technology - smh.com.au (http://news.smh.com.au/technology/review-google-chrome-lacks-polish-under-the-hood-20080903-48jz.html)


At work, I often have 40 or 50 tabs open in Firefox, grouped in different windows depending on which topic they pertain to. Frequently, Firefox would slow down all the other applications on my computer, then seize up completely.

At first I thought JavaScript was to blame, and blocked it from running. But that made many sites unusable, and it didn't help: The browser still froze.

It turns out the culprit is not JavaScript but another technology used to make Web pages more interactive: Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash plug-in. It's the program-within-a-program that plays YouTube videos and those annoying "splash" pages that some sites employ to dazzle you with animations before letting you do anything useful on the site.

Flash is a tremendous resource hog in Firefox, eating up processor time to the point where there is nothing left for other programs. It does this even if you're not actively doing anything. Merely having a YouTube page open on your screen will suck power from your computer's central processing unit, or CPU. This is outrageous behaviour for a browser. It's my CPU and I want it back.
Looks like it's only really a problem if you have a lot of tabs open at once.

I installed the Flashblock add-on as soon as I read the review, I'll see how it goes.

Simon

[LoveMyV8County]

My first thought was... why bother, we already have Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE...

Then I read the release comic, and it all made sense! Aha! A shift to a web-operating system.

Google Chrome (http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/)

[abaddonxi]

My first thought was... why bother, we already have Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE...

Then I read the release comic, and it all made sense! Aha! A shift to a web-operating system.

Google Chrome (http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/)

Thanks, educational.

Cheers
Simon

[abaddonxi]

Read the comic, liked the idea, tried the browser.

I like the minimal display, don't like the absence of lots of user options I'm used to on other browsers.

Compared to IE7 it's, well, very similar, looks similar, and loads pages in a way that reminds me of IE7. Everything seems to stop and wait for a page to load.

And memory hungry.

And no adblock.

And only offered an option to migrate bookmarks and passwords from IE not Firefox or anything else. Really seems like they are aiming at IE users and not on Firefox users.

I am running it on my P3 laptop, so not the optimum hardware.

Seems to me that it sacrifices a lot of speed and RAM for stability.

Think I'll wait for the next release.

[45tr0]

I'm running it and I'm a fan :)
Seems to load a little quicker, and definitely copes with multiple tabs better than IE did on my work machine.

[Xavie]

It is so fast. Usually I don't find web browsing slow but on car sales it can take ages and chrome just speeds ahead.

[waynep]

Is there a PDA version avialble ( eg to run on Windows Mobile ) ?

I find the PDA version of MS Explorer sucks bad.

[Outlaw]

can;t be that good... not on mac yet :p

[abaddonxi]

Also noticed that middle click/left click + Ctrl doesn't always open things in a new tab, only sometimes.:eek:

Cheers
Simon

[Forest]

Compared to the new IE 8 Chrome is heaps better. IE 8 just annoys me!!!

I do like Chrome, on a laptop, works well;)

[Forest]

PS - Why does this site think it is an hour later than it is. Have I missed this in the past????

[DiscoStew]

And only offered an option to migrate bookmarks and passwords from IE not Firefox or anything else. Really seems like they are aiming at IE users and not on Firefox users.

Migrated my bookmarks and quicklinks from FireFox as part of the install.

[one_iota]

PS - Why does this site think it is an hour later than it is. Have I missed this in the past????

Go to your User CP and check your date and time options:

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/profile.php'do=editoptions

Set the DST option to automatic.

[dmdigital]

can;t be that good... not on mac yet :p

See the second post in this thread:

Its based on the open source WebKit the same as Mac OS X Safari is :D

[LoveMyV8County]

can;t be that good... not on mac yet :p

Mac is coming real soon now, it's just that Windows was first cab off the rank. You can register your interest to be notified by going to the Chrome download link when using the Mac (it detects your OS and offers you the option).


Migrated my bookmarks and quicklinks from FireFox as part of the install.

Like he said.

Chris

[DiscoStew]

My first problem with Chrome is that it will not play the vid in this thread:

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-chat/62997-vid-land-rovers-play.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCsRlR0h-SM&eurl=http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-chat/62997-vid-land-rovers-play.html


Works fine in FireFox. In Chrome it stops about 1.5 secs into it regardless of where I start it.

[spudboy]

I've downloaded Chrome to try it out, and am pretty impressed.

I tried playing the video (above) and it works fine for me. I am running a vanilla copy of XP SP2 with AutoUpdates turned off......

After 4 days it is still my default browser, which is good going for me.

[DiscoStew]

My first problem with Chrome is that it will not play the vid in this thread

Update: this works fine for me in Chrome at work but not at home so it must be a combination thing with Chrome and my PC.

[WhiteD3]

Some interesting commentary on Google, Chrome and the future in this podcast.


Background Briefing - 14 September 2008 - Cloud computing (http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2008/2359128.htm)

[abaddonxi]

I started using Chrome a couple of weeks ago when Firefox started getting slow and buggy.

I've managed to crash the whole thing half a dozen times now, so much so that I've had to restart the whole application. I thought Chrome was supposed to just close down a page.

It did recover well.

Maybe it's time to go back to Opera.

Simon