Google Chrome Browser

[Popcorned1]

Did you guys know it has a real time HTML editor built in ?

Web designers are going to love this, being able to play with website styles inline and all.

How do you get that open?

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

It's certainly provoking lots of discussion! The Chrome thread has been top of the Neowin most recent posts section for.. well, since it came out! :)

[SVG Veteran]

How do you get that open?

It isn't an editor.. Its the inspector (Diagnostic tool, sort of)

[.KICK]

I wish it had a better image properties, not liking the image elements when you right click an image to view its stats! Needs something like Firefox or whatever.

[Mikeparkie]

Lets start a BETA 2 wish list!!!

[tsupersonic]

It isn't an editor.. Its the inspector (Diagnostic tool, sort of)

The resources tab on the inspector is really cool. Tells you things like how fast javascript renders, and the size too.

For those of you that don't know how to get to it, right click on a page, and select, "Inspect Element."

[ViperAFK]

ok now we need some sort of adblock... and middle mouse click to scroll the page...

:D

Best workaround right now is using hosts file (mvps.org)

[giga Veteran]

Did you guys know it has a real time HTML editor built in ?

Web designers are going to love this, being able to play with website styles inline and all.

It's just a web inspector from WebKit.

[Lee G. Veteran]

Wow, this is looking pretty good so far (Y) Bearing in mind it's a first beta.

[wellofsouls]

If this was the very first release of the engine, it'd be an acceptable answer, but this stuff worked fine in earlier releases, so these are broken/regressions.

well, considering how much they have hacked the engine, I'd say it's kinda expected.

The resources tab on the inspector is really cool. Tells you things like how fast javascript renders, and the size too.

somehow it only works after a page load, not the first time, which I remember was one of Safari's pre-3.1 bugs, but got fixed in 3.1

I haven't tried the browser yet, since I am waiting till I get home to test it, but can you edit the javascript in real time too? Because I smell exploits all over the place here lol. But I guess what you can do with the Chrome real time, you could do with IE and firefox, just not in real time.

I don't know how exploiting your own computer would be... exploits. You are editing it on the client side, which won't affect anyone else.

[reactionary007]

can you update this to the latest webkit?

[Jock Horror]

Best workaround right now is using hosts file (mvps.org)

thanks that seems to help with the fukn ads :yes:

[Mikee99]

What I find odd about Chrome is that it runs slower than Firefox on my P3 800. Yet, it runs faster than Firefox on my Athlon X2. Safari is the same way. I wonder if maybe the Gecko engine works better on older single-threaded CPU's, whereas Webkit runs better on multi-threaded systems.

Chrome is also slower with Flash animations.

Having said that, for a beta, this browser does pack a punch.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

What I find odd about Chrome is that it runs slower than Firefox on my P3 800. Yet, it runs faster than Firefox on my Athlon X2. Safari is the same way. I wonder if maybe the Gecko engine works better on older single-threaded CPU's, whereas Webkit runs better on multi-threaded systems.

Chrome is also slower with Flash animations.

Having said that, for a beta, this browser does pack a punch.

I am on an older single threaded computer (Athlon XP) and it seems slower than FF3.

Edit:

Flash performance makes it particularly unusable.

Edited September 3, 2008 by Fred Derf

[ViperAFK]

Probably because chrome runs separate processes for every tab and for plugins so I'd imagine it in inherently will run better with multiple cores.

[alisalem]

OK for some reason, I can't create desktop shortcuts of web pages anymore.

[Rudy]

yea the performance gain will mopst likely only be seen on 2+ cores

will be interesting to see on 4-8 cores computers

[GEIST]

http://tapthehive.com/discuss/This_Post_No...le_s_EULA_Sucks

All your posts are belong to Google! :p

[+SOOPRcow MVC]

For those of you having problems with the installer at work try this file:

http://cache.pack.google.com/chrome/instal...e_installer.exe

Worked great for me.

[magik]

http://tapthehive.com/discuss/This_Post_No...le_s_EULA_Sucks

All your posts are belong to Google! :p

Yea, that's kind of a ridiculous thing to put in an EULA.

Although I don't really do any sort of awe-inspiring crazy creative posts in my web browser, it will be something I will keep in the back of my mind for when such an occasion may arise.

Pretty ridiculous though IMO. :no:

[Denis W. Veteran]

border-radius corners are un-anti-aliased (they are in the Cairo and CoreGraphics ports), text-shadow is non-existent (it's in the Cairo and CoreGraphics ports) and border-radius and box-shadow gives you black filled areas there the border is rounded (So instead of being transparent, it has a purely back square background)

The only thing I noticed was the lack of text-shadow on Neowin's tabs .

Chrome is great, tried it in a Virtual Machine. Can't run it in the main machine because it doesn't even start unfortunately.

That happened right after install, but I was able to start Chrome normally from the Start menu.

Blasphemy! The OS X UI's still there! :p

[supernova_00]

That "Editor" is nothing more than Mozilla's DOMInspector. Well it might be a little easier to use like firebug.

<snipped - Persephone>

Edited September 3, 2008 by Persephone

[magik]

That "Editor" is nothing more than Mozilla's DOMInspector. Well it might be a little easier to use like firebug.

<snipped - Persephone>

Spam! :o

jk :p

Edited September 3, 2008 by Persephone

[brentaal]

http://getclicky.com/chrome

[Ayepecks]

That's a pretty damn big share for just getting released.

Already bigger than Opera, haha... sorry to Opera fans, but I think that's justified. :)

Wonder what sites it tracks, though? Is the data skewed?