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hmm. i uninstalled it after not even running it.

1) It installed GoogleUpdate alongside it. shouldn't be like that. it should check for updates only when launched. i don't care for another daemon running on my system;

2) It installed in Portuguese - which is correct for my location. but NOT for my OS language. it should AT LEAST let me pick which language i want to install;

3) It didn't ask me where i wanted it installed. i usually install my stuff on d:\Applications

4) and my biggest gripe: it installed on %APPDATA%!!! this is just UNACCEPTABLE! %APPDATA% is reserved for application configuration files! it should install itself where the OS defined as application install space: %PROGRAMFILES%

Google: get your act together and deliver this correctly! this browser has the potential of being the next best thing.

2) It installed in Portuguese - which is correct for my location. but NOT for my OS language. it should AT LEAST let me pick which language i want to install;

Or it should provide setup files for different languages, like Firefox. Easier for them (no detecting mechanisms) and for us.

3) It didn't ask me where i wanted it installed. i usually install my stuff on d:\Applications

Possibly because it's an early beta, you can obviously see not much time was spent on the installation process and the EULA which seems like a copy/paste of other Google services.

4) and my biggest gripe: it installed on %APPDATA%!!! this is just UNACCEPTABLE! %APPDATA% is reserved for application configuration files! it should install itself where the OS defined as application install space: %PROGRAMFILES%

You just said you install your apps in D:\Applications. To keep things simple, it should ask you where to install, by default pointing to Program Files like every other application for the sake of keeping things standardized.

I too am surprised. I expect these kind of things from a company like Apple that noobify these processes, but oh well, I hope Google improves everything altogether and they have to if they want to be competitive.

lol awesome!

It's a shame about Opera's market share. Seriously it's THE best browser...and I've been using it religiously since it went free.

Too bad Chrome is kicking ass though. I love this thing!!!! :D

If by "best" you mean "worst", I agree :)

Just don't care for it myself.

Why is it that people on the internet are so worried about what browser/OS another person uses and their views on that product? It just drives me crazy. He stated his opinion, just let it go. Everyone has their own opinion on everything... O_o

I tried Chrome at work first and was pretty disappointed, it felt really sluggish and even having it idling on the background made hdd grind continuously.

At home it turned out to be quite different beast, definitely one of the fastest browsers out there. Once it's more feature complete, it should offer some serious competition for Firefox/Safari/Opera. I also really like the look on Vista, even if it stands out from Windows GUI guidelines.

Even though I read some Google peeps boasting that V8 is several times faster than Mozilla's TraceMonkey at least so far they seem very equally matched (using SunSpider as benchmark), TM actually beats V8 slightly in the overall score (963.4ms vs. 1121.2ms)..

It seems pretty obvious that you need a modern computer to use Chrome. Web and Flash performance ends up trailing FF3 on single processor systems. Someone with a single hyperthreaded processor will need to tell us what the Web and Flash performance is like on that system. It seems to run well on a true multiprocessor system.

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?

well, Opera fans (like me) have never really cared about market share anyway. We just like and use a niche browser, and the market share will be hovering around 0.5% to 1% no matter what, it's largely unaffected by all the fuss and buzz of other browsers out there anyway :laugh:

Considering Firefox has 32% and IE has 58%, I'd say it's apparently biased towards the techie guys.

Even though I read some Google peeps boasting that V8 is several times faster than Mozilla's TraceMonkey at least so far they seem very equally matched (using SunSpider as benchmark), TM actually beats V8 slightly in the overall score (963.4ms vs. 1121.2ms)..

For me V8 completely blows TraceMonkey out of the water in both dromaeo and SunSpider.

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