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Good to hear, I doubt I would have changed over permanently to Chrome if they had kept that crappy EULA.
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Good to hear, I doubt I would have changed over permanently to Chrome if they had kept that crappy EULA.
Just my 2 cents.....
I like it, it fast, its tidy looking and most of all its different!
Everyone likes choice and thats what google are offering,
I would like to see some addons a la FF or IE7Pro,
a lot of those who dont like it seem to not like it because its not exactly the same as FF or IE7 but what would be the point in releasing another brower the same as those 2.
Its all about opinions but i think this could be good product, I do think they have to do something about the EULA though seems a bit too much to ask!
EULA revoked !! EULAEAKA !!!
I like it, it fast, its tidy looking and most of all its different!
Everyone likes choice and thats what google are offering,
I would like to see some addons a la FF or IE7Pro,
a lot of those who dont like it seem to not like it because its not exactly the same as FF or IE7 but what would be the point in releasing another brower the same as those 2.
Its all about opinions but i think this could be good product, I do think they have to do something about the EULA though seems a bit too much to ask!
EULA revoked !! EULAEAKA !!!
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Slick interface, fast rendering, overall I'm impressed but the beta is still lacking in services that I'm accustomed to, so I'm sticking with Opera and its awesome mouse gestures system as my default browser (for now).
Also, oh the irony!
I've also found that it tends to assign websites from the same domain to the same process rather than opening a new one per tab. This is cool for general browsing, but it's idiotic that they apply this also to web applications - I opened 4 different Google Documents and they're all in the same process, so if one crashes I'll lose my work in all of them!
In terms of memory usage, I've found it scales well - it had quite a large footprint with only 4 tabs open, but I upped it up to 12 and it's only marginally bigger. It looks like it'll be quite good for "power-surfers" with dozens of concurrent tabs.
The overall featherweight champion of the world in memory usage has been decided though - the numbers don't lie:
Chrome, with 6 tabs open, 90MB RAM and 125MB virtual memory
Firefox, with 1 tab open, 120MB RAM and 101MB virtual memory
Opera, with 16 tabs open, 57MB RAM, 91MB virtual memory...
Also, oh the irony!
I've also found that it tends to assign websites from the same domain to the same process rather than opening a new one per tab. This is cool for general browsing, but it's idiotic that they apply this also to web applications - I opened 4 different Google Documents and they're all in the same process, so if one crashes I'll lose my work in all of them!
In terms of memory usage, I've found it scales well - it had quite a large footprint with only 4 tabs open, but I upped it up to 12 and it's only marginally bigger. It looks like it'll be quite good for "power-surfers" with dozens of concurrent tabs.
The overall featherweight champion of the world in memory usage has been decided though - the numbers don't lie:
Chrome, with 6 tabs open, 90MB RAM and 125MB virtual memory
Firefox, with 1 tab open, 120MB RAM and 101MB virtual memory
Opera, with 16 tabs open, 57MB RAM, 91MB virtual memory...
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My firefox is running at 117mb with 5 tabs and 4 extensions running. So you're figures are off.
If Paged Pool (i said if) in the task manager (vista) refers to page file then the page file is 400K.
I'd still be happy if it were using 512mb, i've got plenty of memory, but that wasn't the point i was making....
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I hav'nt installed the Google Browser yet and it's got nothing to offer me over Firefox with exception to the speed increase, but in honesty i don't think Firefox need be any faster, pages load pretty instantly with exception to when websites have server issues or there's a DNS issue.
Of course experiences differ, but i can't see it having anything to offer me when i have all i need in FF3.
If a page loads in 1 second or 3 seconds, i don't care, do i honestly need it to appear that quick, i've got hours, days and hopefully years to browse and read, a few seconds saved is hardly something that will impress me, show me something that actually offers me a realistic improvement. Of course a page with flash or something make take longer to load, but i don't mind waiting, i can read stuff on the other tabs whilst waiting.
I think we live in too much a fast track world now where everything needs to be instant.
I'm not buying into it, i like google's search and that's all i want from them....
Thank you and good night!....
Of course experiences differ, but i can't see it having anything to offer me when i have all i need in FF3.
If a page loads in 1 second or 3 seconds, i don't care, do i honestly need it to appear that quick, i've got hours, days and hopefully years to browse and read, a few seconds saved is hardly something that will impress me, show me something that actually offers me a realistic improvement. Of course a page with flash or something make take longer to load, but i don't mind waiting, i can read stuff on the other tabs whilst waiting.
I think we live in too much a fast track world now where everything needs to be instant.
I'm not buying into it, i like google's search and that's all i want from them....
Thank you and good night!....
Also, oh the irony!
I don't see any irony? You tried to download Google Toolbar for Firefox and it asks you if you want to to download it. Google are also a Mozilla supporter.
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Does it still have the nasty little thing said in a previous post in it?
Looks like it's been taken out
Edit: section 9.4:
Also looking at the T&C's I can't see them putting an adblocker in any time soon
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Good news on the EULA.
Chrome is a promising browser (fast etc etc) but it still needs some polish before I even consider it as my primary browser. That said it shows a lot of promise and because it's a google product I can see a lot of non tech savvy people picking it up. Because of that I think it has the best chance out of all the alternatives of challenging IE as the dominant browser.
Chrome is a promising browser (fast etc etc) but it still needs some polish before I even consider it as my primary browser. That said it shows a lot of promise and because it's a google product I can see a lot of non tech savvy people picking it up. Because of that I think it has the best chance out of all the alternatives of challenging IE as the dominant browser.
Got to love Google for this... Can you imagine Microsoft doing a 180 so quickly and matter-of-factly
Or you could just recompile the browser without the EULAAfter reading the EULA I'm not happy. As a photographer I try to restrict the images I post online but by accepting the EULA you basically are giving permission for Google to use those said images.Looks like I'll be posting my images using FF.
.Good that they'll change the EULA, but not all rosy..
The security implications of that are somewhat worrying.
Because of pretty much exactly what Jimps said? It's a beta browser with god knows how many security flaws.
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I think I'll give this a try when i get home tonight. IE has got slower and slower on my machone recently. I had to bin it entirely on my wife's PC as it ground to a halt. She was quit annoyed when she looked across at my machine that at the time had no trouble. I put Mozilla on hers and it seems a lot better than IE. I'll have to compare it to Google now ...