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what problems are people having with it?
Google Chrome
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what problems are people having with it?
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well for me anyway, the pictures don't open up.
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Yeah, these things annoy me too. Also, the lack of a simple properties box gets to me, especially for images, as well as a 'view image' and 'view background image' option in the context menu.
It also seems to be quite limited in terms of customisability.
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Wow fast, but lacking in fluff as mentioned.
OT but is Adblock Plus the de facto standard for Firefox banner blocking?
OT but is Adblock Plus the de facto standard for Firefox banner blocking?
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Yep.
Just downloaded it. So far, I'm impressed. First thoughts: this is really, really fast. Starts faster than IE, let alone Firefox. I like the way the address bar suggests unvisited sites based on search results, though the Fx AwesomeBar's algorithm is still generally better. I love the minimal interface - surprising how much space is reclaimed by putting the tabs in the title bar. Memory usage is nice and low, seems stable, JS-heavy sites are fast. Private browsing mode is really useful. Compatibility-wise, I haven't seen any problems... and I can log into NatWest online banking with it, which I couldn't do with Opera or the Fx betas, so I guess that's a good sign.
Extensibility will make or break this. If there are few decent add-ons then it'll be relegated to a position similar to Opera. But if the most-used Firefox add-ons are replicated, then I can see this taking a lot of users from other browsers, primarily Fx but also IE. And given that it's Google, and therefore likely to generate a big buzz, I think add-ons will come quickly once this nears release.
Be interesting to see where this leaves Mozilla - particularly considering that a large proportion of their revenue comes from Google.
Extensibility will make or break this. If there are few decent add-ons then it'll be relegated to a position similar to Opera. But if the most-used Firefox add-ons are replicated, then I can see this taking a lot of users from other browsers, primarily Fx but also IE. And given that it's Google, and therefore likely to generate a big buzz, I think add-ons will come quickly once this nears release.
Be interesting to see where this leaves Mozilla - particularly considering that a large proportion of their revenue comes from Google.
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It was nice to see my own website CSS worked perfectly in it.
Heh... just noticed the auto spell check feature as well while making this post.
Something that's lacking in IE. Unfortunately I can't use FF at work. This... so far so good.
Heh... just noticed the auto spell check feature as well while making this post.
Something that's lacking in IE. Unfortunately I can't use FF at work. This... so far so good.
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So far I like it, takes a little longer than ff at loading websites and facebook photos. dunno whether this is due to google not anticipating how many people would dl the beta or just generally slower.
i think this could take over as my browser though. as long as they sort out the scroll problem. im on laptop and the scroll pad can scroll down but i cant scroll up, so annoying.lol
i really like the open incognito tabs, no longer will i have to delete my history if i go on some pr0n and my mum needs to borrow laptop.
i think this could take over as my browser though. as long as they sort out the scroll problem. im on laptop and the scroll pad can scroll down but i cant scroll up, so annoying.lol
i really like the open incognito tabs, no longer will i have to delete my history if i go on some pr0n and my mum needs to borrow laptop.
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"And also on all my other web browsers when I press my mouse wheel down usually I can scroll the page by moving the mouse up/down, can you not do that on the Google browser ?"
Anyone have the same problem ?
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Gave it a quick try - and meh.
Rendering may be quicker than FF but can't say it's noticeable on the sites I've tried so far.
When you visit any page, or go back and forward the page goes white for a second which I dislike.
Scrolling is poor, not smooth like in FF (with smoothwheel) or IE by default. Scrolling in Safari (Windows) is equally poor so I wonder if Chrome's will ever be improved.
I dislike that there is no regular titlebar like a normal Windows app, so the title of the page you are viewing does not appear. There seems no way of altering that.
I dislike that the tabs are above the toolbar buttons and address bar rather than below them, and again it seems to be fixed behaviour. This is different to FF, IE and Safari.
I prefer large toolbar buttons which are easier to hit with the mouse pointer. The higher the resolution you use, the less easy it is to hit tiny toolbar buttons IMO. I also have that criticism of Safari and IE7. It just seems strange that in the past when we used 800x600 or 1024x768, browsers offered big buttons - now higher resolutions are the norm, we get these tiny little buttons.
You don't seem to be able to arrange history by date and site, just by page visited. It takes up a whole screen rather than a side bar. Also you apparently can't create a toolbar button for history so need to select it from a pulldown menu or press ctrl+H.
The status bar, I would prefer it to be permanently displayed and not pop up - there seems no option to choose that.
Another thing I've noticed - sometimes there is lots of HDD activity when Chrome is open? I close it and the activity stops. Most odd. It isn't Windows swapping RAM because there is plenty free.
I could also add that I don't like Windows apps which choose their own theme, rather than using the system theme. The Windows Live apps are the same, also all of Apple's Windows apps - you get their theme regardless of what system theme you have chosen.
Rendering may be quicker than FF but can't say it's noticeable on the sites I've tried so far.
When you visit any page, or go back and forward the page goes white for a second which I dislike.
Scrolling is poor, not smooth like in FF (with smoothwheel) or IE by default. Scrolling in Safari (Windows) is equally poor so I wonder if Chrome's will ever be improved.
I dislike that there is no regular titlebar like a normal Windows app, so the title of the page you are viewing does not appear. There seems no way of altering that.
I dislike that the tabs are above the toolbar buttons and address bar rather than below them, and again it seems to be fixed behaviour. This is different to FF, IE and Safari.
I prefer large toolbar buttons which are easier to hit with the mouse pointer. The higher the resolution you use, the less easy it is to hit tiny toolbar buttons IMO. I also have that criticism of Safari and IE7. It just seems strange that in the past when we used 800x600 or 1024x768, browsers offered big buttons - now higher resolutions are the norm, we get these tiny little buttons.
You don't seem to be able to arrange history by date and site, just by page visited. It takes up a whole screen rather than a side bar. Also you apparently can't create a toolbar button for history so need to select it from a pulldown menu or press ctrl+H.
The status bar, I would prefer it to be permanently displayed and not pop up - there seems no option to choose that.
Another thing I've noticed - sometimes there is lots of HDD activity when Chrome is open? I close it and the activity stops. Most odd. It isn't Windows swapping RAM because there is plenty free.
I could also add that I don't like Windows apps which choose their own theme, rather than using the system theme. The Windows Live apps are the same, also all of Apple's Windows apps - you get their theme regardless of what system theme you have chosen.
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Man - everyone's obsessed with AdBlock, why's it that big a deal?
It is a killer app which makes using the web significantly more pleasant than without it. It isn't simply the fact it stops pages being cluttered up with crap, some pages are so ad heavy that they take longer to download or to render, or indeed make the page perform sluggishly even once it has rendered.
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This isn't what I'm seeing. I have seen different sites be merged together into the same process. I did post a screenshot but everyone seems to have ignored it
This isn't what I'm seeing. I have seen different sites be merged together into the same process. I did post a screenshot but everyone seems to have ignored it
Yeah, I've been having another play and it seems that if you navigate to the page through your favourites or enter a site directly it does it in a new process.
When I did it before I clicked on a loan of stuff in my links bar and it opened all of them in new processes.
If you click on a link from a previous tab it opens the new tab in the same process as the originating link.
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that's cool! Very handy for all those sites that insist on using miniature text fields and then expect you type an essay
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It seems that if it's the same domain it will use the same process... Try opening multiple tabs but navigate to a different domain on each...This isn't what I'm seeing. I have seen different sites be merged together into the same process. I did post a screenshot but everyone seems to have ignored it
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I love that on Safari.
Also, I don't understand why people keep saying it is fast. It's slower than IE and Opera here...
Yep, downloaded Chrome and by chance the second site I tried was facebook, and options/links fail to work... Oh well, I'll wait till they fix it...