Members thinkpad20 Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 I'm interested in trying it. But I imagine any advantages it might have over firefox will be nullified soon because Firefox is constantly improving. It'll be good to have the two competing though; it'll make both better, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members monkeysuit Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 i'm curious about the chrome, the javascript benchmarks are impressive and i like the concept of running a seperate instance of the browser for each tab. gotta wait for the linux version though, hopefully they get it done soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoshuaLogan Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 Eh? Chrome is only released for toasters. No OSX version for computers yet. Which is strange, considering everyone I know worth a salt working at Google uses a Mac. (And I'm there once a week) -W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoshuaLogan Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 firefox 3 for the win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JBecker Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 So how is Firefox 3 treating you? Works quite well for me in Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crack Hitler Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 Hmm, I'm interested, I think I might give this Chrome a try. Do you think I'll have issues with any other apps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 3red Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 Nah, I read something yesterday talking about how Explorer has 75% of the market share still, so 75% of ya'll are dumbasses But I guess we already knew that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members -todgemistro- Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 I just tried it, I think its ok. Seems quite fast. I dont really like how it looks a lot but its not awful. I really {censored}ing hate the awesomebar things though, I wish they'd just have a check box to allow you to turn it on and off, I just find it annoying and useless which is why I'm still in Firefox 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crack Hitler Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 Using it right now. Seems okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blckbldng Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 This happens with the search engine too. Every search you submit gets saved and tied to your IP address...which can be used against you if necessary. thats pretty useless, how could they prove it was you looking for illegal torrents, bomb or poison receipes ? anybody can use anyones computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr R Gecko Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 I like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MattACaster Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 thats pretty useless, how could they prove it was you looking for illegal torrents, bomb or poison receipes ? anybody can use anyones computer Actually, it's how Google organizes it's search results. People do a search, Google keeps track of which links they go too and then using that information it finds which pages people go to most for the search keywords. The pages that are hit most with those keywords are at the top of the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members newholland Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 gave 'er a whirl. kinda poky versus a well setup firefox 3. not much functionality beyond basic basic browsing that i could tell.. but it's surely lightweight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members inkblot Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 Tried it, seemed a bit faster than FF3 but it needs extensions like Adblock before I'll use it. Some cool ideas but not making me switch just yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members relva3 Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 I like the speed, and like the clean look. Gaining back memory from closing sites is great, as I open + close quite a few in one session. Most visited is alright, as I tend to hit up a couple of sites a lot. Quite similar to speed dial. The ability to search only sites in your history is nifty. The other nice thing is that one site crash doesn't crash the browser. I've had the issue where I have literally 10 or more internet tabs, and one of them crashes. I restart the browser...only to have it crash in a few seconds again. I now have to restart the browser and pray I can guess which X to hit or I have to start from a clean slate losing all my tabs. As to the people claiming it isn't good for privacy...icognito mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr R Gecko Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 I like the speed, and like the clean look. Gaining back memory from closing sites is great, as I open + close quite a few in one session. Most visited is alright, as I tend to hit up a couple of sites a lot. Quite similar to speed dial. The ability to search only sites in your history is nifty. The other nice thing is that one site crash doesn't crash the browser. I've had the issue where I have literally 10 or more internet tabs, and one of them crashes. I restart the browser...only to have it crash in a few seconds again. I now have to restart the browser and pray I can guess which X to hit or I have to start from a clean slate losing all my tabs. As to the people claiming it isn't good for privacy...icognito mode? You mean pRon mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members inkblot Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 Incognito mode is to stop other people from using the PC after you and seeing where you were in the history and stuff, rather than stopping Google from logging everything you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thinkpad20 Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 You mean pRon mode?potato potahto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KingKabong Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 I'm interested in trying it. But I imagine any advantages it might have over firefox will be nullified soon because Firefox is constantly improving. It'll be good to have the two competing though; it'll make both better, Not really, the architecture is completely different than any other browser, that's something that FF won't just "get", they'd have to rewrite it from scratch. Use whatever works with how you use a browser. For me, having a separate process per tab is huge. I run lots of applications in my browser and prefer to work in tabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members starsnuffer Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 Not really, the architecture is completely different than any other browser, that's something that FF won't just "get", they'd have to rewrite it from scratch. Use whatever works with how you use a browser. For me, having a separate process per tab is huge. I run lots of applications in my browser and prefer to work in tabs. They're both opensource. Competition is great. All the browsers will improve and they'll constantly take ideas from eachother to get better, the consumer wins (take opera's speed dial implementation in chrome, or chrome's ability to utilize add-ons like FF). The new IE has a separate process per tab too. Did google steal from MS? They'll all have this soon (next year or so). -W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 17 Tubes Posted September 3, 2008 Members Share Posted September 3, 2008 So, can someone tell me what other browsers are out there, and why they are better than Explorer? I'm more than willing to try something new. Don't forget about Flock....Netscape's new browser. It's a little....I dunno....social-ist...myspace-ish for my taste. Like a soccer-mom browser? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members -todgemistro- Posted September 4, 2008 Members Share Posted September 4, 2008 I really hope someone decides that not everyone likes the awesomebar and makes it optional Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.