that's the default for any application in vista. you could try this though....
http://www.codegazer.com/vistaglazz/
if this browser gets advanced options like "about:config" in firefox and allows 3rd party extensions, it could be very tasty indeed.
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that's the default for any application in vista. you could try this though....
http://www.codegazer.com/vistaglazz/
if this browser gets advanced options like "about:config" in firefox and allows 3rd party extensions, it could be very tasty indeed.
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anyone reckon this will ever leave beta? After all gmail is still in beta after all these years.
Quite. Chrome's setting the bar for JS performance nicely, though the WebKit nightlies improve on that in some areas.
For example, with the test at http://dromaeo.com/:
- IE8 beta 2 takes 9571.81ms
- Opera 9.60 3184.60ms
- Fx3 2861.80ms
- WebKit nightly 2099.60ms
- Fx3.1 nightly 2549.80ms with JIT disabled, 1650.40ms with JIT enabled
- Chrome 611.80ms
You're doing something very wrong if it's that bad.
Chrome uses the same plugins as Firefox/Opera/Netscape.
Not quite the same, but I saw an extension that showed the most visited pages in your history. Can't find it now though
Edit: It's this.
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Exactamundo.
Wonder if the mac version will be faster than Safari given that they're based on the same engine?
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Holy crap it's fast! Downloaded and installed in less than a minute, took all my fav settings, and just screamed when I hit my first site (imdb.com). Popups properly blocked. Had to reset a couple cookies of course, but wow!
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ok another thing i don't like, there is no favicons when viewing any website, which is what i use as bookmarks and it's nice to know the sites favicon before adding it as a bookmark and thinking wtf is that for
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facebook seems broken, but just noticed this,
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Not sure whether I'd switch to it from FF3 - not without an Adblock Plus equivalent anyway - but otherwise I'd have to agree. Will watch this with interest.
Certainly preferable to the POS that is IE7 ...
since when does the google toolbar block google ads?
since you've changed the settings to do it
It seemed pretty good, spent a bit of time playing with it. Lightening fast! But no extensions means no adblock, and lots of missing things like customisable search engines (I have Google, YouTube, Thottbot, Veoh, Wikipedia) as well as about 10 extensions (GreaseMonkey, DownloadThemAll, Chatzilla, WebDeveloper) as well as about 3-4 Bookmarklets.
Also, dodgy google legal things in the EULA (something to do with Google gaining rights to use anything you submit as its own legal entity? Didn't quite understand that, or why Google needs a EULA in open source software when it can just be removed), didn't like using a downloader program instead of a simple exe, dodgy Google service that isn't uninstalled when you remove Chrome (it is STILL trying to boot up in msconfig even after removal).
All we need now is for Chrome to install a rootkit and the paranoia will be complete ;p
Also, dodgy google legal things in the EULA (something to do with Google gaining rights to use anything you submit as its own legal entity? Didn't quite understand that, or why Google needs a EULA in open source software when it can just be removed), didn't like using a downloader program instead of a simple exe, dodgy Google service that isn't uninstalled when you remove Chrome (it is STILL trying to boot up in msconfig even after removal).
All we need now is for Chrome to install a rootkit and the paranoia will be complete ;p
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me too but still hoping they add a few more useful features and security updates and optimise the memory.
Yep, default for the time being. Hope it won't be too long before they release an update with a plug-in API!
Anyone else yet?
Yep on this computer. Not sure on my main computer yet though (it's GPU is away for RMA at the moment). I'll have to see how I like it once I've imported all my proper settings from my main PC.
Hopefully they make it nice and easy for developers to make plug-ins.
I'm guessing that service that was left behind when you uninstalled it is the google updater, that thing stays there after any Google product has been installed.
That is very disappointing. Just opened at least 20 tabs and they all ran from 5 processes, I killed one process and for some reason my entire chrome session closed (every single tab). Hopefully they'll bring in some kind of feature to control the overall amount of RAM Chrome can use. I'm sure most people's computers these days can handle more than 5 chrome.exe processes.
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sorry, you'll have to forgive my ignorance. where exactly can you do that?
given advertising is pretty much google's no1 income stream, i can't imagine them allowing you to block them with their own software. i even downloaded google toolbar myself and i can't find any option to disable ads. can you point me in the right direction? sorry, you'll have to forgive my ignorance. where exactly can you do that?
