Google Chrome (Beta) Launching 9/2/08

[Sense]

So far I like Google Chrome. I'm not sure if I like it better than FF3 yet but the fact that it creates a new process for each tab is huge. If you've ever had one of your FF tabs crash your entire browser, you'd soon realize this way makes a lot more sense.

I'll give it a couple more days before declare a winner.

That's exactly the same way I'm looking at it right now.......

[baseline bum]

One of my favorite things is that it caches URLs for the domain and not individual pages in the history on the address bar. The one thing it's really missing is the search toolbar in the top right corner that Firefox has, so I can quickly change between searching Google, Wikipedia, and Amazon.com.

[MannyIsGod]

One of my favorite things is that it caches URLs for the domain and not individual pages in the history on the address bar. The one thing it's really missing is the search toolbar in the top right corner that Firefox has, so I can quickly change between searching Google, Wikipedia, and Amazon.com.

Do they allow you to bookmark searches the same way firefox does? For example I have google bookmarked so when I want to do a search with it I just go to the address bar and type the letter g followed by my string.

IE: "G google chrome" would do a google search for google chrome. I also have dictionary.com (dict) and wikipedia (w) saved that way. It makes searching so damn easy and fast.

[leemajors]

http://gizmodo.com/5044871/google-ch...osts-to-emails

[MannyIsGod]

http://gizmodo.com/5044871/google-ch...osts-to-emails

WTF. Thats ed.

[lefty]

WTF. Thats ed.

I agree

Google

[DynastyBuilder]

Google said "Our bad." Changes EULA.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...change-it.html

Remeber guys this is just the beta, of course there are going to be things that need to be changed... It'll take some time but I like the direction this is going.

[jman3000]

well... besides basically swapping all my passwords for different sites with each other, i like what i see so far.

[DynastyBuilder]

well... besides basically swapping all my passwords for different sites with each other, i like what i see so far.

Try this out http://passpack.com/info/home/

also like this, and I keep it on my flash drive

http://cygnusproductions.com/freeware/pc.asp

[jman3000]

and it seems to not respond to my up scrolling on my laptops finger pad... it scrolls down... but not back up...double checked and it works fine in both IE and FF.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

and it seems to not respond to my up scrolling on my laptops finger pad... it scrolls down... but not back up...double checked and it works fine in both IE and FF.

I have that same problem

[Thunder Dan]

i like

[Sense]

I have that same problem

Same here....

[Brutalis]

Me thinks google is a government tool.

[sabar]

It is nice. Runs noticeably slower than firefox on old machines though.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

.............Chrome gets over this problem by spawning a new process for each tab

.............the fact its not a memory hog.

how is that possible?

[DynastyBuilder]

Me thinks google is a government tool.

You very well could be right... http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/g...m-423-miles-up

[baseline bum]

I really like both Chrome and Firefox.

Chrome:
+ Stability via spawning new processes for each tab
+ URL caching by domain name instead of filename
+ great default page with links to my most visited sites
+ browser looks incredibly sharp. Simple, yet elegant.
+ Google has the best software engineers in the world, and Chrome is incredibly impressive for a first iteration of something as complex as a web browser.
+ Open source.
- only the text gets resized when user zooms in/out, which makes layouts look like crap
- steeper memory requirements than FF3

Firefox3:
+ Very good with memory
+ The search box in the upper right corner that allows quick searches of Google/Wikipedia/Amazon.com/eBay/etc is something that's hard to do without once you've used it. Google did not include this as they obviously want you using their search engine.
+ The spell-check and the ease with updating its dictionary are unmatched by its compe ors (pretty useful for anyone who uses forums a lot)
+ Possibly the greatest piece of open source software ever written.
- The multiple tabs being stored as part of one process mean it's pretty easy to crash the browser from a slow PDF or bad Java in one tab

After trying Chrome for a few days, I still clearly like Firefox3 above all others. However, I think Chrome will eventually surpass Firefox for browser supremacy, as it is built on some great ideas that made no sense in the Netscape codebase Firefox was born from.

[Kori Ellis]

I just installed Chrome today, so I haven't done much with it.

But I will say to Firefox 3. I recently upgraded to it, and now I can't use a bunch of stuff that I could in the previous version. For example, I use this particular content management system where I should be able to highlight text and then insert a hyperlink, but FF3 screws the URL and turns it into javascript code. So I either have to uninstall FF3 and go back to the old verion, or just use IE6.

[Brutalis]

You very well could be right... http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/g...m-423-miles-up

I don't remember exactly, but I know at one time Bush had all Google searches do ented or some kind of crap.

[lefty]

So guys, after a few months, what's your verdict?

[koriwhat]

safari and sometimes ff3.

[DarkReign]

I feel like such a noob for using IE.

[DynastyBuilder]

So guys, after a few months, what's your verdict?

I really like chrome and on my pc it is my default browser, still wish they'd hurry up and release it for my mac so until then I'll go back and forth between FF and Opera.