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Post September 2nd, 2008, 10:10 pm

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This is my first post using Chrome. I love it so far. It is so much faster than IE and FF from my point of view.

i feel the same way grinch. the browser opens faster as well as loads websites faster. for some reason my personal site takes forEVER to load in FF but chrome is quick as a whip with it.
it also uses less memory than FF which is important to me as i'm on an old pc waiting to get a new psu, mobo, proc & ram -_- so the 900MHz P3 likes it ^_^

interestingly, each time you open a new tab it opens another instance of chrome (O_o) i'm guessing for the 'pull the tab down to have it in its own window' feature
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Post September 2nd, 2008, 10:10 pm

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Post September 3rd, 2008, 1:00 am

looks really cool ... really lightweight ...and I like what it does with the colouring of urls ...that's really sweet ...
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Post September 3rd, 2008, 2:00 am

That is beta and I'm on my FF3 right now. I'm not sure that that will be better at least I dislike screens with it they have posted
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Post September 3rd, 2008, 3:45 am

Like it instantly,,the download was tad bit longer than FF but the outcome is much faster. My first post on chrome. Awesome...like R_T said light and effective..

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Post September 3rd, 2008, 3:52 am

Apart from the pain that I went through for installation (failed 4 times in 3 hour window - perhaps due to firewall at my end) .. overall very happy with the result.

Very uncluttered look and feel, you just get to see the webpage, wonder where would toolbars come and what all changes have to be made for existing toolbars to be compatible with Chrome.

Noticed a bug as well .. in address bar if you type about:% Chrome crashes (and not just the tab u typed it in.. but the whole browser -- something ecomic said - Chrome is different)

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Post September 3rd, 2008, 4:33 am

I like it, nice an simple as many of you have said ... a bit bland, but it's nice and uncluttered.

One thing I dislike is there is no support (and no hint of any support) for addons and extensions. I hope they include this in the full release.

Edit: Another thing I don't like is not being able to press the scroll wheel on the mouse down and have that smooth scrolling thing ...
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Post September 3rd, 2008, 5:07 am

hahaha, i was actually going on to google this morning to look up another browser called gecko. and i saw the link to this.

can't wait till and SDK comes out, or people start making themes for it. i like it, because it is sleek, and really quick.
now i just can't wait for Android to come out, if Chrome is anything to go bye.

pubdomains - i typed about:%. Whoa. Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now. (i think the meant to put it in there, have you seen the crazy images they put in google earth?)

man, those google kids are real crazy kids.



PS - i was about to post this on the other chrome thread, but ATNO/TW locked it as i was writing.

EDIT: Just read the post above mine - i am on a laptop, and the touchscroll feature only works downwards, and the only sometimes. really annoyting
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Post September 3rd, 2008, 5:59 am

Not too bad. Definitely a fast rendering of pages. Already miss the option to open local files, but not all that often I need to do that and I can always drop them in localhost.
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Post September 3rd, 2008, 7:24 am

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One thing I dislike is there is no support (and no hint of any support) for addons and extensions. I hope they include this in the full release.


Chrome is 100% open source so it is going to be up to the community to develop add-ons and themes and all that crazy jazz. It is going to be fun to watch this develop.

I kind of miss the home button and the address bar drop down but I can get used to this.
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Post September 3rd, 2008, 7:31 am

Yet another browser to support... although it seems to not have any crazy CSS problems yet. I've only been to one page that does display probably and the issue isn't a big one.

One thing I really like about chrome is it has a really nice history window and download window.

aaaaahhh oooo Incognito....

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Post September 3rd, 2008, 8:07 am

Nice little browser.

I hope Google does not have something up its sleeve with this project - as a maketing tool it could gather all sorts of useful data for the folks back at Google HQ.
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Post September 3rd, 2008, 8:17 am

Don't forget to signup to the newsletter if you're waiting for the Linux version(s).

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/linux.html

Does anyone have a download link for the Windows version handy so I can try it in Wine for the time being ?
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Post September 3rd, 2008, 8:18 am

http://www.google.com/chrome/
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Post September 3rd, 2008, 8:27 am

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I've only been to one page that does display probably and the issue isn't a big one.


You can report sites to Google using Chrome. Click the folder looking icon on the right and select Report Bug or Broken Website... adobe.com doesn't look the same in Chrome as it does in FF.
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Post September 3rd, 2008, 8:29 am

Joebert, I don't know if this url is loaded with other stuff, but it points to a windows xp/vista version
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