Comments on: 7 days with Google Chrome

Harrison Hoffman spent 7 days with Google's new Chrome browser. Does it make the grade?

[firefoxluva95]

Anything but IE anyone? Chrome, Safari, Opera, and FF are on the same side in my opinion. IE is the common foe. Why? Because MSIE still is not fully standards compliant. Heck, it performs dismally on the Acid3 test.

Chrome has its pluses. Chrome having each tab in a separate process does seem to be a great idea. I would always get annoyed when one tab crashed the whole browser in FF and before I discovered FF, IE would crash often. However, I still use FF as a default browser simply because I just can't be weaned from my addons. I need them. If Chrome adds addons, I may use Chrome more often but I'll still stick to FF3. But I don't look at Chrome as a Firefox destroyer, it's a Firefox ally. The more allies you have, the stronger your cause is.

Now about the full screen issue, if you press F11 in FF or IE or Opera or Safari (but not Chrome yet, on the other hand please remember that Chrome is beta and is working on the first full build), it does go to full screen (FF completely goes to full screen and you can mouseover the top edge to get the address bar and tab bar). Need the start menu? Most keyboards nowadays have a Windows logo button that you can use.

[IKON44]

7 days of chrome, so lucky. xD
I found that problem saying that, bt the browser I think is compatibly challengled or something.
I later un-installed it.

[t26l]

I agree with some of the people here. While Chrome is much better than Internet Explorer, and even Opera, (which was like Chrome before Google took over the world,) I don't think too many Firefox users are going to submit. I know a few people who use Firefox daily, and haven't even tried Chrome because of the missing Fire fox features. If you don't trust Firefox, and still use Internet Explorer, you'll love it, but for those who have ten different add-ons and add-ons for their add-ons in Firefox, and you're okay with that, or even a slow speed (which Firefox is not, normally,) then you may not want to change. At least until Google ups the ante.

[dexter_birdbrain]

It (Chrome) might give you more real-estate to play with but there are alternatives (if you have some time to spare, you could open up a lot more space in FF3 with themes like Littlefox (like to call it 'barebones') or Classic Compact and extensions like Classic Compact Options. And yes, F11 works like magic for readers of blogs, articles, etc.).

But are you ready to bear all the ads that will be thrown at you from each and every webpage that you open?
The speed of the browser is also somewhat dependent on the add-ons that it uses. Chrome is still a virgin in that regards! Lets see how it perform when there are third-party add-ons riding on it!

[tapaskm]

Does not work with Windows XP Media Center Edition. The installation window seems to do something and then close. I have chrome in my list of programs but it does not launch when I try to launch it. Also during installation i chrome does not auto launch after installation and I dont get the screen to import bookmarks, etc.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Chrome is Chrap...Hammers the CPU to the point my TV app stutters and is not any faster than IE8/FF3 on real web pages. A "javascript test" is NOT the same as loading a real web page.
The dumbed-down Fisher-Price interface is a turn-off. IE8 has many more useful features baked-in and barely uses CPU cycles to accomplish the same task. And listen to the latest Security Now podcast to learn what a security nightmare Chrome is. Chrome lasted 7 minutes on my system LOL
BTW...The address bar in Chrome acts as a keystroke logger for Google !!!

[AppleSuxLeo]

Heap fragmentation , and keystroke logging are just a COUPLE of serious problems with Chrome.
Also a javascript test isn`t the same as loading real web pages. Chrome and FF3 both hammer the CPU and make my TV app stutter. IE8 causes no such problems and gets the job done just as fast using hardly any CPU cycles. IE8 doesn`t suffer from "heap fragmentation".
Javascript is a security nightmare. Hear all about how lousy Chrome is...http://thisweekintech.com/sn161

[AppleSuxLeo]

Chrome , downloaded by millions...uninstalled by just as many. You only get one chance to make a first impression !

[russkeller]

No mention that the Omnibox Contains Spyware? I'm surprised that doesn't get brought up more often. Are you guys getting paid by Google?

[roprice]

Hey Harrison and everybody,

Check out the Chrome Web Application shortcuts; it really does make your web apps feel like traditional desktop apps. It gives your web app quick launch shortcut, right along side your desktop apps, with web favicon as icon, a keyboard shortcut (if you want), and an even more minimal window view than you get with Chrome-as-browser. Better than F11 in other browsers too -- more about the app. I use it for Pandora, Freshbooks, Google Mail, Gootodo, Google Calendar, and a few others. My Chrome web apps load much faster than my desktop ones.

Frees you up to web surf in a more 'normal' browser mode, with Chrome's bookmarks left on.

Also, give Google docs with Gears offline integration a whirl. Not bad at all. Can't wait till all my favorite web apps have offline integration, even if it's just a minimal 'backup' functionality.

If anyone knows of a good contact manager web app, please tweat it to me @roprice. Been looking for 6 months and can't find anything decent.

Best,

Ro

[sas1408]

thx alot

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[pcfish]

One thing Chrome suck at is Color Management! Salari has it forever and Firefox 3 has it too.

[CJ_Dicuozzo]

Being a user of Chrome since late 2008 i'm happy to say that its made me proud. I've been working on an ancient desktop (A 2005 Compaq Presario) and i am trying to make its snails pace speed more endurable. Thats where Chrome comes in, and the latest 2 versions have let me erase all browsers but Firefox and Chrome itself. Firefox is under little use now, because on this dinosaur it takes at least 1 minute to load the browser, and it displays webpages at increasingly slow speeds. IE and FF were in use a lot, until Chrome 2 & 3. I have less than a gig of RAM on this and with the increased efficiency i can finally use Chrome without having to worry about anything lagging.

Something I love about Chrome is how it deals with its channels. I'm no developer, but i am still on the dev channel and loving its few but useful add-ons. With the use of these channels Chrome has updated itself like crazy, and is up to Chrome 4 on the dev channel. Just a matter of weeks before it goes mainstream with the most asked for upgrade - add-ons.