Google Chrome

marc2003 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:09

Ulfhedjinn said:
I have noticed while typing this post that it has a spell checker built in, any way to see if it's set to American or British?

seems to be british. type in center and it will underline it for you.

xb8browney · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:10

Using it now and I like it

Juniper · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:11

www.hellozapp.com/ChromeSetup.exe

Mirror if anyone needs one

Darkwave · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:11

marc2003 said:
seems to be british. type in center and it will underline it for you.

LOL, I didn't think of that.

xb8browney · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:11

That's lucky I have 3

Craig321 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:11

fini said:
So Google's started putting out details about Chrome - its new browser. Looks really interesting to me. It'll be interesting to see if Google can deliver on everything it's said about Chrome in this lonnnng comic.

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Looks good, I especially like the multi processes/threads idea. I'm guessing if e.g. Javascript causes a crash then it'll only effect that instance of the browser so everything else you have open in tabs won't get effected.

Sounds very good. Installing now

If they keep the browser properly supported, updated and deliver all the features they say they're going to then I can see this catching up to Firefox quite quickly.

Spyhop · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:13

R@tman said:
Ok in the settings it saves all the passwords you can click on them to show them all.

how do you stop this ?

As its not very secure if someone can come along and view them all ?

Firefox does this as well.

jrwagh333 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:13

WOW super fast on these forums.. where the hell is the HOME button?

Slinwagh · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:13

Is it just me or does Microsoft.com load slow !?

Dup · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:14

Remember this is a Beta. This is more or less a basic tabbed web renderer than a fully polished browser and at this stage. I'm sure more control via the options will be added once rendering bugs etc. have been established and dealt with.

There is an in-built task manager which states how much ram a tab is using. Useful for web designers as is the right click 'Inspect Element'/'view source (ctrl+U) options.

I'm all too keen on the look/icons. It's clean but not my thing. I wonder if we can skin it at this stage?

DDave · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:14

Looks awesome, will need to decide on it's usability though.

Cool feature: type about:memory in the address bar and compare the memory used between multiple browsers (Chrome is using around half the total ram over Firefox for me with a few standard pages open and and the Google conference running)

R@tman · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:16

wush said:
Firefox does this as well.

yes but you can set a master password to secure them all

ringo747 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:16

Using it now on my work intranet and the speed of it is unbelievable. Usually it takes forever to load stuff. Will be waiting for the mac version.

Fillado · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:17

I'm running it over VNC and even with that I can tell it's FAST.

So far, so good Google

Spunj99 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:17

Everytime I open a picture on Pistonheads (yes, looking for a new car) the window opens normally but when i choose the numbers across the top the window nudges across or down the screen slightly every time...that's pretty weird.

tolien · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:17

wush said:
Firefox does this as well.

You can set a master password to control access to that option in Firefox. There's no sign of such an option in Chrome.

It's certainly fast at running JS (~2x faster at Sunspider than Fx3). If the Webkit site wasn't taking a hammering just now, I'd try 3.1.

jrwagh333 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:18

home button anywhere people?

tang0 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:18

crashes every time i try and go into options

R@tman · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:20

jrwagh333 said:
home button anywhere people?

you have to enable it in options

mmj_uk · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:21

I really love the simplicity of it and the most visited page rather than a single homepage is genius.