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Rheostar
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 Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject: Google Chrome |
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Google launched the Chrome browser earlier this week. It's very good! Much quicker at rendering pages than IE (who actually uses IE these days?) and is on a par with Firefox.
It's only beta but worth a look.
http://www.google.com/chrome
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dudey
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| I'm sure it's great. But there's no Mac or Linux versions yet, so I've yet to see. Saying that, I'm a believer in waiting for proper releases rather than getting disgruntled over beta bugs and ditching it. It's good that there's yet more competition for IE, although Google's ever growing stronghold on literally everything in the world worries me. |
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Adam.o
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: Google Chrome |
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| Rheostar wrote: | | (who actually uses IE these days?) |
Me. It works fine and it's just there. I've never seen the need to use a different browser.
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funkymp
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: Re: Google Chrome |
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| Adam.o wrote: | | Rheostar wrote: | | (who actually uses IE these days?) |
Me. It works fine and it's just there. I've never seen the need to use a different browser. |
gah, it doesn't work fine, it's a complete mess, it is terribly incompentant when it comes to meeting web standards, it's ok for end users but for web devs like moi - it's hell. ie8 is just going to make it worse 
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: Google Chrome |
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| funkymp wrote: | | Adam.o wrote: | | Rheostar wrote: | | (who actually uses IE these days?) |
Me. It works fine and it's just there. I've never seen the need to use a different browser. |
gah, it doesn't work fine, it's a complete mess, it is terribly incompentant when it comes to meeting web standards, it's ok for end users but for web devs like moi - it's hell. ie8 is just going to make it worse |
The amount of cruft the frontend guys on some web projects I help with have to add to the end of their css prefixed with /* To make fucking IE work */ is crazy. IE has always been a sub-par browser (No tabs until 2006, what the fuck?), and the fact that IE 8 needs more RAM than Windows xp means you are going to need a fucking Cray to get it running on Vista.
Meanwhile, Chrome looks pretty damn good, mainly for geeky reasons than anything else (The sandboxing is absolutely genius, and the Javascriot virtual machine will be a great improvement), though without a Linux version, I think it is an utterly pish idea.
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funkymp
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^ they'll be a linux idea, but not for a while - it's still in command line testing for linux.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list <--- has all the bugs, there's a few bits on linux on there, def in development, can't see it appearing for months though
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Rick
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: Google Chrome |
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| Adam.o wrote: | | Rheostar wrote: | | (who actually uses IE these days?) |
Me. It works fine and it's just there. I've never seen the need to use a different browser. |
Me too.
It does everything I need it to do.
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toastedmonkey
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I'm not a fan of IE at all, 7 seems really unstable on my system.
And Firefox jsut seems to kill my RAM.
I'll be giving Chrome a twirl shortly.
I'm quite looking forward to the day google takes over the world, it'll be so much easier. Everything will be clean and simple, look nice and actually work on release.
I'm particuarly looking forward to their mobile phone OS.
Anyone know if they're gonna release their own desktop OS, that'd be rather nice, everything all intergrated and useful.
Just like the future was when I was a child.
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punkymoose
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject: Re: Google Chrome |
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| Pepp wrote: | | Adam.o wrote: | | Rheostar wrote: | | (who actually uses IE these days?) |
Me. It works fine and it's just there. I've never seen the need to use a different browser. |
Me too.
It does everything I need it to do. |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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I've not tried it yet, but even if I do, I'll probably stick with Firefox.
I was watching BBCs Click, and it (may or may not have) mentioned having ads relevant to the page your viewing appear somewhere, like in Gmail. In Gmail, I can handle it. I dont check that every 30 seconds. What I couldnt handle is me watching something then an subscription ad appearing out of nowhere that is vaguely related. Its bad enough having "Spam Fritter Recipes" advertised when I'm emptying my spam box.
I'm a tad apprehensive, but I'll go into it with an open mind, and have a squint at the full release too, see how I feel.
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Just had a try of Chrome on my new Windows XP VM. Actually really like it. Firefox is pissing me off with branding / trademark bullshit (Ubuntu having to show a completely fucking uselsss EULA because Mozilla want to arse about with Trademarks, making my life much more difficult as a linux dev, thanks for that one Mozilla!) so I may very well switch when it is ported.
Incognito windows is the bollocks for porn surfing.
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Its shit.
Tried, fucked with and tested.
Its shit.
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Rheostar
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| bobbo wrote: |
Incognito windows is the bollocks for porn surfing. |
Apple's Safari has 'Private browsing'. Very useful when doing 'research'.
I've gone back to using Safari for PC until Chrome's a bit more stable. Chrome's more of an alpha release than a beta at the moment.
I use Safari as it seems quicker than both IE and Firefox.
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funkymp
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| Rheostar wrote: | | bobbo wrote: |
Incognito windows is the bollocks for porn surfing. |
Apple's Safari has 'Private browsing'. Very useful when doing 'research'.
I've gone back to using Safari for PC until Chrome's a bit more stable. Chrome's more of an alpha release than a beta at the moment.
I use Safari as it seems quicker than both IE and Firefox. |
safari's the fastest browser around at the moment, firefox seems to have a memory leakage problem which slows it down if it's been open for a while.
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Rheostar
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Someone's done some comparisons between Chrome, FF and IE (not me, I couldn't be arsed).
Chrome's miles ahead.
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KattyKins
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject: Re: Google Chrome |
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| punkymoose wrote: | | Pepp wrote: | | Adam.o wrote: | | Rheostar wrote: | | (who actually uses IE these days?) |
Me. It works fine and it's just there. I've never seen the need to use a different browser. |
Me too.
It does everything I need it to do. |
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Another vote for IE here!
...well, til mum 'upgraded' it and now it's the new one that comes with vista. SO not impressed
She tells me not to press buttons I don't understand... GRR
Anyone know how to change it back? |
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WombleKiller
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Kat if you mean change all of Vista back to what older Windows versions are like you can change it to "Classic Mode" via the Control Panel. I have because Vista is crap. I have it looking like Windows 98 now - much nicer.
And Google Chrome is the browser equivalent of happy little puppies compated to a rabid Pit Bull with one eye that fancies your leg. I love it. |
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KattyKins
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:44 am Post subject: |
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No, I don't actually have Vista
And this post is so old I'm just used to it now  |
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WombleKiller
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| Aye, I noticed that after I wrote the reply. |
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