So Google finally went and made a web browser, I've only used it for 10 minutes or so so I can't say if it sucks yet

.

http://www.google.com/chrome

It's using the same engine as Safari but it appears to suck significantly less (not a great achievement, mind you), and after trying it out some more I'll decide if I will switch over from IE7 (or IE8 beta, but they killed inline autocomplete

).

Yay.. yet another webstandard to adhere to.

Awesome Chrome comic:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

Nice and fast - another nail into the IE coffin.

I foresee Google applications to creep into every household this way even more now. Two or three years down the road the first batch of people might look bewildered if you tell them you pay for MS OFFICE.

Once they get the Linux version out I'll be giving it a try...but until then it's Firefox or nothing...well, maybe lynx but only if to make the wife freak out when I ask her to use my computer to check her email :mrgreen:

BloodRayne wrote:

Yay.. yet another webstandard to adhere to.

Webkit renders xhtml more accurately than gecko so you shouldn't have to edit your css too much.

I haven't encountered a page that it breaks yet, and it does feel somewhat smoother/faster than IE. So far, I'm fairly pleased. The zero customization options are bugging me though (the only one is "show home button on address bar"), I'd like tabs to open at the end and the home button to open all my start pages, but I guess it's still just beta.

I'd say Chrome is a real Browser alternative for the average Joe at the moment.

Everyone using Firefox with Add-ons isn't going to switch too soon, imho.

Things i'm missing in Chrome:

-No smooth scrolling
-No "click mouse wheel and scroll by moving the mouse"
-Tab ordering and open/close behaviour not customizable
-No Autocopy (highlighted text is copied to clipboard)
-No global "close tab" button
-No Bookmark synching that i know of

What bugs me most about it so far is that it'll close the entire program if I close the last tab. Instead of doing what ever other program in the world does and open a clean tab.

That I can't hit Mouse3 and quick scroll is also a bit frustrating though.

It works good though. Found a few pages where it renders a tiny bit different. But in general it's pretty solid.

I really like it, but I was surfing around an insurance website and found out that a few of the text fields could not be backspaced, I have to select all and type over it to change it. Other than that, the browser is the best I have used, it's very fast, although it doesn't have all the nice addon options like firefox. I also ran the Acid3 web standards test with it and scored higher than firefox 3 or ie7. http://acid3.acidtests.org/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html?part=rss speed test compared to other browsers using java apps.

Burrito wrote:

Things i'm missing in Chrome:

-No smooth scrolling
-No "click mouse wheel and scroll by moving the mouse"
-Tab ordering and open/close behaviour not customizable
-No Autocopy (highlighted text is copied to clipboard)
-No global "close tab" button
-No Bookmark synching that i know of

All valid points, but for me, it's funny that smooth scrolling and clicking mouse wheel+move are some of first things I disable on a browser.

And to close tabs, middle-click on the tab or Ctrl+W is what I do.

All in all, it looks like a great browser, although it lacks some extensions (which is the strong point of FF now I guess) and the power of about:config.

Nice browser, some nice touches, but nothing to take me away from Firefox.

Burrito wrote:

-Tab ordering and open/close behaviour not customizable

This annoys me as well, I want new tabs to open on the end, not next to the current tab.

Burrito wrote:

-No global "close tab" button

Eh? Ctrl-W is the only thing I ever use to close tabs.

It IS still beta so I'm quite sure things will change/be added when it's released for real. The search bar behavior described in the presentation comic doesn't seem to work, for example.

iceheart wrote:

Burrito wrote:

-No global "close tab" button

Eh? Ctrl-W is the only thing I ever use to close tabs.

It IS still beta so I'm quite sure things will change/be added when it's released for real. The search bar behavior described in the presentation comic doesn't seem to work, for example.

I have a share of websites that don't offer RSS and that i visit often. They are all placed in a separate bookmark folder. I open all pages in this folder at once and quickly close one after another with the "close current tab" button. This way the mouse can stay on top of this button and i don't have to hit the X on every tab. CTRL+W is somehow strange, not very ergonomic.

The search from the comic works for me for amazon.de. But it doesn't for IMDb and Wikipedia.

It's a funny thing: it claims to be stable using multiple processes, but it goes down if you surf to any url in the form of "meh:%".

Also, I wonder how this multi-process thing works out. It would make performance depend largely on the OS, I assume. It could work quite fast on multi-processor machines though, although I wonder if all those child processes can decently talk to the "master process" without locking up too many processors.

Heh, I tried that and yeah it crashed the whole thing. Funny was that I only had to type it. I didn't even hit enter. :p

I'm annoyed how there isn't a RSS feature. Otherwise this would've instantly been my new standard web browser. :[

I never thought RSS should be a web browser feature. Seems ideally suited to a background application if you ask me.

iceheart wrote:

I never thought RSS should be a web browser feature. Seems ideally suited to a background application if you ask me.

I beg to differ if you are using more then one machine (e.g. at work and at home). So why would anyone use anything different then Google Reader? Its awesome.

I tried Google Chrome when it was launched. But did not want to compromise with look of the browser. I am using FireFox and EI 7 both. I would prefer FireFox for speed and security.

So Google finally went and made a web browser, I've only used it for 10 minutes or so so I can't say if it sucks yet

.

http://www.google.com/chrome

It's using the same engine as Safari but it appears to suck significantly less (not a great achievement, mind you), and after trying it out some more I'll decide if I will switch over from IE7 (or IE8 beta, but they killed inline autocomplete

).

Yay.. yet another webstandard to adhere to.

Awesome Chrome comic:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

Nice and fast - another nail into the IE coffin.

I foresee Google applications to creep into every household this way even more now. Two or three years down the road the first batch of people might look bewildered if you tell them you pay for MS OFFICE.

Once they get the Linux version out I'll be giving it a try...but until then it's Firefox or nothing...well, maybe lynx but only if to make the wife freak out when I ask her to use my computer to check her email :mrgreen:

BloodRayne wrote:

Yay.. yet another webstandard to adhere to.

Webkit renders xhtml more accurately than gecko so you shouldn't have to edit your css too much.

I haven't encountered a page that it breaks yet, and it does feel somewhat smoother/faster than IE. So far, I'm fairly pleased. The zero customization options are bugging me though (the only one is "show home button on address bar"), I'd like tabs to open at the end and the home button to open all my start pages, but I guess it's still just beta.

I'd say Chrome is a real Browser alternative for the average Joe at the moment.

Everyone using Firefox with Add-ons isn't going to switch too soon, imho.

Things i'm missing in Chrome:

-No smooth scrolling
-No "click mouse wheel and scroll by moving the mouse"
-Tab ordering and open/close behaviour not customizable
-No Autocopy (highlighted text is copied to clipboard)
-No global "close tab" button
-No Bookmark synching that i know of

What bugs me most about it so far is that it'll close the entire program if I close the last tab. Instead of doing what ever other program in the world does and open a clean tab.

That I can't hit Mouse3 and quick scroll is also a bit frustrating though.

It works good though. Found a few pages where it renders a tiny bit different. But in general it's pretty solid.

I really like it, but I was surfing around an insurance website and found out that a few of the text fields could not be backspaced, I have to select all and type over it to change it. Other than that, the browser is the best I have used, it's very fast, although it doesn't have all the nice addon options like firefox. I also ran the Acid3 web standards test with it and scored higher than firefox 3 or ie7. http://acid3.acidtests.org/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html?part=rss speed test compared to other browsers using java apps.

Burrito wrote:

Things i'm missing in Chrome:

-No smooth scrolling
-No "click mouse wheel and scroll by moving the mouse"
-Tab ordering and open/close behaviour not customizable
-No Autocopy (highlighted text is copied to clipboard)
-No global "close tab" button
-No Bookmark synching that i know of

All valid points, but for me, it's funny that smooth scrolling and clicking mouse wheel+move are some of first things I disable on a browser.

And to close tabs, middle-click on the tab or Ctrl+W is what I do.

All in all, it looks like a great browser, although it lacks some extensions (which is the strong point of FF now I guess) and the power of about:config.

Nice browser, some nice touches, but nothing to take me away from Firefox.

Burrito wrote:

-Tab ordering and open/close behaviour not customizable

This annoys me as well, I want new tabs to open on the end, not next to the current tab.

Burrito wrote:

-No global "close tab" button

Eh? Ctrl-W is the only thing I ever use to close tabs.

It IS still beta so I'm quite sure things will change/be added when it's released for real. The search bar behavior described in the presentation comic doesn't seem to work, for example.

iceheart wrote:

Burrito wrote:

-No global "close tab" button

Eh? Ctrl-W is the only thing I ever use to close tabs.

It IS still beta so I'm quite sure things will change/be added when it's released for real. The search bar behavior described in the presentation comic doesn't seem to work, for example.

I have a share of websites that don't offer RSS and that i visit often. They are all placed in a separate bookmark folder. I open all pages in this folder at once and quickly close one after another with the "close current tab" button. This way the mouse can stay on top of this button and i don't have to hit the X on every tab. CTRL+W is somehow strange, not very ergonomic.

The search from the comic works for me for amazon.de. But it doesn't for IMDb and Wikipedia.

It's a funny thing: it claims to be stable using multiple processes, but it goes down if you surf to any url in the form of "meh:%".

Also, I wonder how this multi-process thing works out. It would make performance depend largely on the OS, I assume. It could work quite fast on multi-processor machines though, although I wonder if all those child processes can decently talk to the "master process" without locking up too many processors.

Heh, I tried that and yeah it crashed the whole thing. Funny was that I only had to type it. I didn't even hit enter. :p

I'm annoyed how there isn't a RSS feature. Otherwise this would've instantly been my new standard web browser. :[

I never thought RSS should be a web browser feature. Seems ideally suited to a background application if you ask me.

iceheart wrote:

I never thought RSS should be a web browser feature. Seems ideally suited to a background application if you ask me.

I beg to differ if you are using more then one machine (e.g. at work and at home). So why would anyone use anything different then Google Reader? Its awesome.

I tried Google Chrome when it was launched. But did not want to compromise with look of the browser. I am using FireFox and EI 7 both. I would prefer FireFox for speed and security.