Anyone else checked it out yet? If so, what do you think? I had been hearing rumblings of a google made browser for a while now, and then the news popped up yesterday, and it's out today (a beta version, but still). It just became available a short while ago..seems pretty cool so far. http://www.google.com/chrome for those who want to give it a shot...no sure if it will end up being bogged down as the day goes on.
It is not something I see myself even trying. Having 1 bar for both searches and address would drive me nuts. Whenever I'm forced to use IE, I always turn off searching from the address bar.
I'll stick with Firefox until google has something that I will actually make a difference for my web browsing. When I switched to Firefox it was because they had tabbed browsing and IE didn't.
I combined my menu, address, navigation, and search bars into one row. I love it, saves so much space. Oh, it's all one field. Eww.
I'll give it a shot. I read up on how it allocates memory and javascript heirarchies and it looks like it may not bog down my system. Hey, I'd rather have Firefox and Chrome than Firefox and IE
I'm on Chrome right now. It's ok. I feel indifferent to it now, but I haven't viewed a page with javascript yet
Its getting ridiculous how people are trying to come up with ideas to make things more convenient that are already perfectly convenient in the first place. Come up with something that nobody wants or change something already great, give it a cool name and hope it sells. Reminds me of OKC's basketball team.......yeah I'm still bitter.
There's a lot of strategic value to Google having their own browser. They can control both ends of the WWW experience - browser and WWW site/services. They're not at risk of a Microsoft putting features in that hurt Google's business but protect peoples' privacy. They can extend standards as they see fit if people are using their browser to hit Google owned sites. The flipside is that google is already big and not averse to abusing the kinds of information they datamine from everyone using their products.
You guys are all idiots. It's based on WebKit (the fastest open source browser), and is a hell of a lot faster than internet explorer and more stable than Firefox. Firefox takes forever just to open and keeps crashing. Chrome is fast. Download it. It feels like I'm opening folders, not loading web pages.
Yes, not wanting to control over the address bar makes me an idiot I've had no problems with FF 3 and I regularly run 40 tabs each in two separate windows
I wasn't addressing the people who gave it a shot. I'm not really sure what you mean by control, if you type in the wrong site, it will take you to your default search engine just like IE and FireFox. Which is convenient because you can just click on the corrected link rather than finding the error in the address bar. All I was saying earlier was some of you guys might want to try it before pissing all over Google. It's fast, the interface is simple, and I love how it shows your 9 most frequently visited websites when you open it.
I turn that behavior off in browsers. Searching from the address bar drives me absolutely nuts. To use your logic, only idiots like that behavior out of a browser
Calm down dude damn. It's decent to say the least. I just wanted to shift the tone of this thread. Everyone was stomping on Google, and I thought some should give it a try and be the judge for themselves.
It sucks, I can't even log in to S2 with it. It keeps logging me out or somethin right after I log in
Ummm, I don't feel Firefox is like you describe. It works fine for me, and I'm not saying I'll never change to another web browser, but I'm going to go with what works well for me until I see a reason that I would want a different browser with a different format. Firefox takes 1-1.5 seconds (I timed it lol) for it to open from my comp, and FireFox rarely crashes for me. If a new browser comes out that is revolutionary, then I'll probably hear about it and look into it. But for now Firefox is fine with me.
Yeah, and Google Chrome just crashed for me, while I was removing my cookies. That's about 10 minutes after I got it. EDIT: plus, when I click the middle (scroll) button, the arrow things don't even pop up. I love this browser, way better than anything else out there!
i had that happening with IE at work. So far chrome (and every other browser) hasn't had that problem for me.
