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Quite polished. Clean and tidy, incognito mode is clever, VERY snappy pageloads, particularly on local sites obviously, cool tricks like being able to resize this text input box.

Importing shit from Firefox was cool too.

Few minor bugs (scrolling with mouse doesn't always seem to work and sometimes text display in this input box fucks out too)

Has potential though.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/google_new_chrome_browser/
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Just started using it - some weird things, like the biggie logo is really low res? Nice that its so "fullscreen-esque" though.
Miss my adblock though. It's like a 5 year old ravers birthday party in here! Razz
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fine here?

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garethw said:
It's like a 5 year old ravers birthday party in here! Razz


holy crap the enrol to vote one is annoying
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
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Application shortcuts:




the bigger implication is that they now have themselves an OS independant apps platform.
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Now that is the exact reason that google will have investied in this product.

My personal reaction has been "meh. why bother? There are already plenty of choices in the browsers market, although only one is really any good" Wink
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nothing wrong with choice tho, particularly if you look at it as a choice between Gecko and Webkit.


dragging a tab away is a cool trick.
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kris_b said:
dragging a tab away is a cool trick.


Don't both IE, Safari and FF all do that anyway?
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Not a good look when it does this to their own email page!


and this is the fuzzy biggie I mentioned:
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damn, can't see the biggie logo but is all blocky - everything else on page is fine...
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blacknight said:
kris_b said:
dragging a tab away is a cool trick.


Don't both IE, Safari and FF all do that anyway?

He might be referring to dragging a new tab away from the current browser window to create a new window.
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blacknight said:
kris_b said:
dragging a tab away is a cool trick.


Don't both IE, Safari and FF all do that anyway?




this thing, tunrs it into it's own window. tried in FF and it don't do it.

part and parcel of the multi-process design.
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I had a laugh this afternoon. One of our programmers is really geeky. Always looking down, boofy hair, doesn't say much and talks quietly.

Anyway he was wearing a google tshirt today so I mentioned this to him.

Me : I see chrome is out now.
Him : Not for linux
Me: Haha.. nope
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does slightly better than firefox 3 in the acid3 test.

it got 78/100 compared to firefox's 71/100
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Seems pretty slick.
Impressive importing wizard
Tabs at the top is good, and seems very fast.
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Mind you, I'm looking at ads again.
Didn't even know the internet had ads anymore :S
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kris_b said:
blacknight said:
kris_b said:
dragging a tab away is a cool trick.


Don't both IE, Safari and FF all do that anyway?




this thing, tunrs it into it's own window. tried in FF and it don't do it.

part and parcel of the multi-process design.


Oh i see - didn't realise that. Way cool!



GarethW: I think your problems are just you because GMail loads perfectly for me, as does Biggie.
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Agreed, GarethW I had no problems at all with any pages I tried last night.

I'm a fan of it so far, got a lot of potential.
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http://lifehacker.com/5044518/enable-chromes-best-features-in-firefox
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Peroxide said:
Agreed, GarethW I had no problems at all with any pages I tried last night.

I'm a fan of it so far, got a lot of potential.

It just doesn't want to load some pages at all now! Loads the top line of them then stops.
So weird - must be a config thing on the work laptop but IE/FF etc all work fine...
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you are all very trusting....
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Im not sure there is anything to benefit me yet and i like the idea of google knowing less about me, not more.
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peat said:
you are all very trusting....

I think government, local government stupid people & the fact that I have to work to earn a living cause me far more grief on a day to day basis than google ever can.

What I really don't like about the browser is that the rendering engine can't zoom like FF, IE & Opera can. I make big use of that. Also, it means fixed positioned websites don't break when you zoom in.
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peat said:
you are all very trusting....


OH NOES! A COMPANY KNOWS WHAT WEBSITES I VISIT!

Seriously, why care?

Also: how do you know MS/Firefox/Apple don't do the same thing? YOU DON'T. Chrome (and FF) are open source. You can get the code and check it through if you like and see what it is and isn't doing.
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kris_b said:


Seriously, why care?



Exactly my thoughts on most web privacy issues.
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Have any of you reeally kicked the tyres amd noticed just how quickly it runs google apps!!!??

Great implimentation of google gears, its insane!
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yup. swift as. credit for that also goes to the V8 javascript engine.
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So works on the Vista machine at home - insanely fast to load but still hates the text boxes I'm typing in right now. Also unworkable for me until they get the Google toolbar up and running
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what in the google toolbar do you use that you miss?
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kris_b said:
what in the google toolbar do you use that you miss?

bookmarks - useful having web ones for across home and work puter.
autofill
search straight to images, maps etc...
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having a chrome day me...

seems as resource hungry as IE which is my usual browser and I don't like where the bookmarks are (tiny gripe)

like it thus far
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Chrome 2 is out now, and has a few cute geek tricks.

Right click the title bar and open up it's very own task manager.



See which tab is using how much memory and how much bandwidth.

Clicking on the 'Stats for Nerds' think goes to a page called about:memory telling you how much memory Chrome is using compared to whatever other browsers you have open (Works with IE8 and FF here).
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Andrew said:
Have any of you reeally kicked the tyres amd noticed just how quickly it runs google apps!!!??

Great implimentation of google gears, its insane!


Yes. Its fucken fast compared to using app with IE or FF.

Music
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*sticks with Safari 4 cause its the same thing
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They've done a mint job of setting themselves up for a cloud-based netbook future methinks.
Chrome running all the Google Apps would be a pretty fast way to run all the netbook stuff you need on a low spec puter
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For some reason google chrome has a minor glitch with some websites ie; login???

tried to get into a website i'm a member of - would not accept my login - administrator from the site changed my login, and was able to login from their end, however when they had logged out, i tried logging in while they were on the phone to me - still no access. i have started using IE again on that website and there's no problem anymore - this has happened to 3 of my logins only on chrome???
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Andrew said:
*sticks with Safari 4 cause its the same thing

Is it out of beta?

That looks like a really good browser, especially now that they have done away with forcing the apple look on windows platforms.
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No its not out of Beta, and forcing a look on Windows is ridiculous, i'd NEVER use Safari for Windows if it did that.
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garethw said:
search straight to images, maps etc...


I like the idea of doing a web search and suggestions in the address bar, but you'd think these (images, maps etc) would come up in the suggestion drop box.


Has anyone tried to 'install' adsweep on Chrome? Have encountered a slightly confusing scenario. You'll have to excuse (as usual) my lack of technical know-how.

The instructions to run adsweep are thus:

Adsweep.com said:
If you use Chrome 2.x (recommended), find out your user data directory (mine is C:\Users\Charles\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\ on Windows Vista). Create a "User Scripts" directory inside your user data directory (in my case, that is C:\Users\Charles\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User Scripts\). Copy the AdSweep.user.js file into your "User Scripts" directory. Right-click the shortcut icon of Google Chrome, either on your desktop or in your "Start" menu, and click "Properties". Select the second tab named "Shortcut", and in the "Target" field, append --enable-user-scripts with a space inbetween; the command flag --enable-user-scripts has to be outside the double quotes, if any. For instance:

Before: C:\Users\Charles\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
After: C:\Users\Charles\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --enable-user-scripts

Don't forget the space in between. Click "OK" to save changes. When you're done, close your browser, reopen it and access www.adsweep.org, you should see a red notification in the upper-right corner of the page (only displayed on www.adsweep.org), saying AdSweep is installed.


No problem finding the user data directory or creating the User Scripts folder, however the next step is a little puzzling. It says "Copy the AdSweep.user.js file into your "User Scripts" directory"... Well when I'm on the adsweep.com page, I'm presented with this picture:



And when I click on the AdSweep.user.js hyperlink, it opens a new tab full of what I presume to be html. Do I need to copy the entire script into the User Scripts folder? I was just expecting a file of some kind I suppose. Not script.

Probably simple for you lot probably.

*shrug*

Very Happy

gc.
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right click -> save link as.

Just left clicking on it will display the contents of the link inside a webpage. It's javascript source code btw. Smile
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Right well that makes me feel stupid. I assumed 'link' was the link location as opposed to whatever was contained inside. Lucky I'm a bit boozey.

Razz

gc.
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kris_b said:
blacknight said:
kris_b said:
dragging a tab away is a cool trick.


Don't both IE, Safari and FF all do that anyway?


this thing, tunrs it into it's own window. tried in FF and it don't do it.

part and parcel of the multi-process design.


I think you'll find that ff does too, if you didn't already

you can swap the ff tabs positions by dragging and dropping too and also in to task bar

chrome doesn't want to hotlink youtube for me and I cannot ctrl-click for new tab on same window
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shit when did that change...

Formerly dragging a tab onto the desktop in ff resulted in a shortcut link to the page the tab was displaying while doing so in Chrome resulted in 2 browsers.

You can see that it's not multiprocess blah blah though by the way it opens. Or maybe it is now and I'm talking shit. *shrug*
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Night Rider said:
kris_b said:
blacknight said:
kris_b said:
dragging a tab away is a cool trick.


Don't both IE, Safari and FF all do that anyway?


this thing, tunrs it into it's own window. tried in FF and it don't do it.

part and parcel of the multi-process design.


I think you'll find that ff does too, if you didn't already

you can swap the ff tabs positions by dragging and dropping too and also in to task bar

chrome doesn't want to hotlink youtube for me and I cannot ctrl-click for new tab on same window


FF only started doing it in 3.5. At the time of that post, it didn't. Dragging and dropping tabs within the tab bar has been around for yonks.
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you find out something every day or you rediscover something every day, I don't know which

who else has the hotlink issue?
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On a semi-related sidenote, anybody seen this Google Wave bidness? Reinventing email?
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Sure: http://www.biggie.co.nz/interaction/forum/viewtopic.php?t=218753
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I'll just mosey on back under my rock then shall I? Razz
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Smiley said:
right click -> save link as.

Just left clicking on it will display the contents of the link inside a webpage. It's javascript source code btw. Smile


I've uninstalled chrome and it still takes control when I do this

most annoying as I can't save the data only the stupid link info when I try to d/load
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could just load it into the browser, select all, copy it, paste it into notepad and save as name.js (make sure it doesn't have .txt after that). It's now a javascipt file, not a text document.