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[Micky]

I see they are making there own web browser :sleep: we needed another one eh?

Discuss

/edit it will be called 'Chrome' and it will have the tabs above the address bar, I saw this in the bot news feed on this site.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10029914-2.html

[grindcore]

I'm using Mozilla Firefox (latest version).

I used IE for a long time when other browsers were buggy and not supported by sites (Netscape Navigator first years, lolz). It worked fine.

Then switched to Opera and loved it, especially for the tab system which took Microsoft years to implement from then.

Then switched to Firefox because it's less resource demanding than Opera and looks nearly as good. The latest version of Firefox has Google "inscribed" meaning that if you type some random words on the address bar and the program doesn't recognize a site you've been to, it tries to Google it and links the answers as links to choose from.

Unless they come up with something really, really good, I don't think it's possible for a browser to be "better" than the last versions of IE, Firefox or Opera. Thus, no need for it.

[Micky]

Yeah I'm using firefox 3 atm and I love it, like I have a keyword wiki for my address bar and so if I type say 'wiki dogs' that keyword is tied with the wiki search box on the wiki site. I also have one for eve-online seach box 'eve raven' will bring up posts about the raven battleship in that games forum. You can do this with any sites search box just right click it and select add keyword for this search. Theres a crap load of other reasons I use this browser, one being if I know I have something bookmarks which is unsorted in a pile of bookmarks. I can simply type a keyword i know has something to do with that site in the address bar and it will find it for me.

Google will have to make a remarkable browser for me to switch from what I'm using here, I'll deffinately try it but I doubt its gonna be as good as firefox.

[ZoneseeK]

I see they are making there own web browser :sleep: we needed another one eh?

Discuss

/edit it will be called 'Chrome' and it will have the tabs above the address bar, I saw this in the bot news feed on this site.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10029914-2.html


looks good, whats wrong with more browsers? since when is selection and competition a bad thing?

[grindcore]

I'm gonna go with "don't fix it if it's not broken". Meaning that unless the project is a breakthrough, I'm probably not going to use it.

[Micky]

looks good, whats wrong with more browsers? since when is selection and competition a bad thing?

Fair enough but I just thought it would be hard for them to convince alot of people to use thier browser, which is why I said it would have to be something quite remarkable and fresh for me at least. I learned it will be open source also so It can't be a bad thing, if its as customizable as firefox is it might go along way, we would have to be able to configure it to make 100 connections per site right? about:config in firefox is also a reason I use firefox, it can really make a difference to the speed with cache settings aswell, I normally set mine to only use the hardisk. So I don't have to download as much when revisting a site, only the content which has been set to expire, which I also hate google for since I have to redownload a youtube video everytime even though it has about 5 copys of the same flipping video in firefoxs cache. I know they changed it to protect copy writes but tbh thats just fucking stupid and a waste of bandwidth...

[Micky]

http://www.google.com/chrome/index.html?hl=en-GB&brand=CHMG&utm_source=en-GB-hpp&utm_medium=hpp&utm_campaign=en-GB

And here it is, link from the main google search site so if your in a different country use your own local.

/edit its pretty nice, it imports everything from firefox, it also automatically spell checks or is at least shows I'm spelling incorrectly lol. It has the same functionality as firefox when typing furious into my address bar it will find this site from the history.

[ZoneseeK]

using chrome right now

god its lite, and i love lite...no file menu bar, no status bar at the bottom, status messages fade in and out at the bottom left (no way to customize this yet?) which is dope

so much browsing room on the screen, which is nice

im tasted so far

[Pete]

I'm sure this browser will develop much more than what it is now, it's only a beta, an early beta. So don't get your hopes up zoneseek, not everyone wants something that's extremely shallow, simplistic and easy.

Anyways, it'll probably turn out to be a great browser.

[ZoneseeK]

I know, most people are stupid idiots, usually they're American. Stupid idiots on computers directly benefit me, they're job security.

[hinch]

zone you know you can turn off all the extra bars your talking about in firefox yeah ? can do it in IE7 also.

there's a few concerns with chrome though .http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/09/03/0247205.shtml

Much ink and many electrons are being spilled over Google's Chrome browser (discussed here twice in recent days): from deep backgrounders to performance benchmarks to its vulnerability to a carpet-bombing flaw. The latest angle to be explored is Chrome's end-user license agreement. It does not look consumer-friendly. "By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."

[ZoneseeK]

yea but when you turn them off in firefox/ie you lose the information you would normally see down there, whereas chrome fades it in and out over the bottom left of the site

unless theres a firefox plugin that does that already and i dont know about it?

[grindcore]

First they take your work, then they go for your brains, Hinch.

[hinch]

zone I don't know of any FF plugins that do it off the top of my head but i'd assume there's one out there among the thousands if not its a safe bet someone will write a chromefox plugin at some point to do just that.

[Ghost]

I LOVE Chrome so far. It kicks the shit out of Firefox, and it's only in beta. I love it for all the reasons zone mentioned. I hope the mod community is strong with this and develops addons similar to Firefox. WTB a mac version for my school computer. If not, Safari will suffice. :sleep:

[pixel]

I've been using Chrome since it came out... the technology and concepts behind it are amazing, it runs very smoothly and starts very fast, but as a tech demo / beta its still rather featureless. Although to be fair, all it really needs is a simple plugin architecture (to implement things like AdBlockPlus) and then it really will blow all of the other browsers out of the water.

However, I have noticed that it breaks CSS that works perfectly in Firefix/IE8 so it's just another rendering engine I need to test web pages against :P (This is due to the Webkit engine rather than Google Chrome and the same problems occur in Safari so it's not a gripe)