Google Chrome

Reiterating my love for this browser. It loads pages much faster than Firefox 3.0. The tabs are a pleasure to use, and I actually really like how when you make a new tab, it shows you your most visited websites, plus a list of recent bookmarks - at first I was a bit wary of the lack of a bookmarks drop down list, but making a new tab only to be shown a list of recent bookmarks to click on it, is a terrific and very clever design decision. It's the little things like that, that really makes me appreciate this browser.

I don't care about the technical side of things - I'm not a programmer or web designer - I'm just a simple internet user who wants to surf the web. And that applies to 99% of Chrome users. For them, this browser is brilliant in every way.

Thing is, the "recent documents" thing and drop downs is really, really easy to implement. It seems your main "bonus points" seem to be that it loads faster - fair enough, that is indeed nice. But your claims to ignorance concerning being a designer or developer, these things will land you in hot water later if by your choice you go one way or another. Its the same as other people who claim to be ignorant of the politics of anything - it still affects you, whether you choose to accept it or not.

Google will already have a good idea of what you search for, purely from google.com. The browser just takes it one step further and allows it to gather all your passwords in one convenient place. The EULA itself is fairly dodgy, no open source piece of software requires a EULA, and as it is open source, it (should be) fairly easy to remove. In the meantime, you've given all of your details to a company - not a foundation like Mozilla, and by supporting their browser (by downloading and using it) you are supporting them, which means mozilla will lose market share and investment from Google.

We already have one evil corporation trying to dip its' fingers into every pie in town... do we need another?

And as for "same as 99% of other Chrome users", well, IE already does all that. It might be faster, but by even trying a different browser, you've seperated yourself from the herd.

Unfortunately, its all political, its got nothing to do with the software :S
 
I will try this tonight, but unlikely to sway me from IE7. The default view of IE7 (minus File Open etc) for me is how browsers should look. I have no interest in extra bits or buttons, nor in addons amending webpages.

If everyone was to use ad blocking tools, then we'll end up with websites charging for content.
 
If everyone was to use ad blocking tools, then we'll end up with websites charging for content.

I love how everyone is an amateur economist :D

If everyone charged for content, then it is possible that people would pay for it - but as soon as one website started offering it for free, where would the incentive for people to pay for "premium" content come from ?
 
I will try this tonight, but unlikely to sway me from IE7. The default view of IE7 (minus File Open etc) for me is how browsers should look. I have no interest in extra bits or buttons, nor in addons amending webpages.

If everyone was to use ad blocking tools, then we'll end up with websites charging for content.

I thought this also, ive never liked firefox or any other browser but i really like Chrome. One thing i dont like is that im unable to clock down on the address bar for recent places :p
 
Did you guys know it has a real time HTML editor built in ?

http://robbiekhan.co.uk/root/temp/chrome_editor.jpg

:D

Yes, but as I pointed out on ANOTHER forum where you posted exactly the same message...

Welcome to yester-year.



mrk said:
Inline? but...this is GOOGLE!

Yes. So?

I'm really suprised you haven't seen this before, in any of the other browsers.

Internet Explorer - Download an IE add-in from microsoft. Been around since at least IE6
Safari - Built in. Enable a hidden setting. Since Safari3.
Firefox - Two main extensions. Firebug or Webdeveloper tool bar. Been around for ages!


Just for the pendants, I realise that only safari actually has it built in, but its nothing new!
 
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Erm no I haven't.. Works fine in FF and IE.

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What are the thread tools doing all the way down there?!?
 
I love how everyone is an amateur economist :D

If everyone charged for content, then it is possible that people would pay for it - but as soon as one website started offering it for free, where would the incentive for people to pay for "premium" content come from ?

I love it how everyone on the internet makes assumptions.

BSc Economics and MSc Economics with Distinction. I also lectured Econometrics/Microeconomics to UG 1st years. I now work for an Investment Bank.

Maybe I should clarify. I do not want to rob sites from ad income.

Also under your "simplistic model" (if it's even worth that) you make the assumption that websites make moves irrespective of pay offs (i.e. profit). If we are talking about websites which do not sell items and depend purely on adverts....
 
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