The official press conference launching the Chrome browser is scheduled to kick off at 11 a.m. PDT. See the live blog below for my blow-by-blow commentary. Google also plans to host a video stream of the conference in two formats: Windows Media Player | Real Player.
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no problems so far, other than a pop up taking over my main window :( (I opened a site with a popup and the pop up took over the main site and displayed in full size)
http://google.client.shareholder.com/Visitors/event/build2/MediaPresentation.cfm?MediaID=33101&Player=1
let me know at ajey1989@gmail.com
thanks
How can Google's own browser not work for it's websites?
all I need is to figure out how to bookmark a page... and importing bookmarks didn't work for me :(
This is on the second attempt as well. It seems to launch a program called Googleupdater whose process can't be interupted.
Advisable to have a quick look at this link before downloading "chrome"
-Jonathan
http://jonathanbruceconnects.com/
Although you retain any copyrights to content you own and use in the browser, Google says it has a right to display some of your content, in conjunction with promoting its services. Here's their exact wording.
"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."
Something i don't like: On my laptop's touch pad i have a little strip i can slide my finger down to scroll up and down pages. It doesn't work in Chrome! Seeing as how most of the time i use my pad rather than a mouse, this needs to be fixed
Lastly, are there apps for chrome like in firefox? I'd like to have gmail checker
Error 104 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_FAILED): The attempt to connect to the server failed.
- by PaulusDev September 19, 2008 8:39 AM PDT
- For anyone who wishes to fix the issue "cannot scroll up using certain mouse pads" issue quickly, I have released a patcher. You can download it here:
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Showing 1 of 2 pages (26 Comments)http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pjt2v07/chrome/
Just run chrome_patch.exe. It will patch chrome.dll to fix the issue.