Google Chrome First thoughts

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Grand Master

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Well, I installed it on my mothers other half's laptop and he loves it, it runs much faster then Firefox and his laptop is a lowly AMD 2000+ /w 256MB of RAM. And by faster, I mean, Firefox takes almost 22 seconds to load, Chrome opens in about two seconds. NICE.

I just cant wait to see what the Mac version has to offer.

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Rahul

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I find it to render pages quite fast once you have already been to the web page once . it would be pretty killer once it has support for something like extensions for firefox & maybe some skinning support as well.

8/10

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Thaumbody

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You are aware that this is Beta software right? and are Aware what Beta is . i assume you think Beta means Beta luck next time.

now as for the high Ram usage it is Beta also if you add alot of the task up in the task manger for chromes task manger it well for me would equal what Safri or FF3 uses somtimes

Yes, I am aware that it is a Beta, so I did the right thing and told Google why I uninstalled it and what problems I had when I did so. As for your assumption, no. Beta means that user feedback can make the product Better. And I still don't like the fact that the uninstallation of the Beta software called Google Chrome left the Google updater running and still running after a reboot.

Oh, and cut the patronizing attitude, it doesn't help anyone.

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Brian Jackson

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I agree with most of the comments. I compared it with firefox and it does load pages faster, surprised me. You should have seen my workplace today (IT Department), everyone was all excited about a new browser to try out. It's funny to see grown men act like children, or Christmas day just because of a new beta browser release. They only downfall I've seen so far is the security certificate signing. If you click proceed anyways, close the browser, and then revisit a site with https it doesn't remember your previous choice to bypass it. I haven't spent too much time looking, maybe someone knows how to remember security certificate choices?

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The_Decryptor Veteran

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It uses an old version of WebKit, and the graphics layer has odd bugs (And some features are missing that Safari has supported since v1 or so, which is just strange)

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I am addicted to the feature documented here.

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It's a cool feature, good thing lots of other browsers do it.

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gigapixels Veteran

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I'm liking it so far. I've just been using it for about five minutes, but it's been very fast for me and I haven't had a single issue yet. I'll have to continue to use it for a week or so before I decide whether or not to use it as my primary browser, but it's looking good so far.

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Here are some SunSpider tests with Firefox 3.1 Build 20080902191608 (27 extensions installed) and it looks like 3.1 /w Jit wins over Chrome

Firefox 3.1 Jit ON (1725.8ms Total)

Firefox 3.1 Jit OFF (3558.8ms Total)

Google Chrome (2192.0ms Total)

On Dromaeo though, Chrome wins by a large margin. From left to right, Firefox Jit OFF (1859.40ms), Firefox Jit ON (1247.80ms), Google Chrome (463.40ms). It makes me wonder if WebKit/Google cheated and optimized just so it destroyed Mozilla's javascript benchmark considering there are a few inconsistencies between the its Sunspider and Dromaeo benchmarks. If everything was equal, Google Chrome should have won all the tests it did in Dromaeo in Sunspider as well, but on some it does and others it doesn't. Maybe it just goes back to SunSpider being affected by rendering speed and Chrome is just really slow in that respect at the moment even though its javascript engine is much faster.

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Berserk87

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couple things.

how do i add a home button?

-speed wise i notice a very small difference.

-the ui gives the page more screen space and looks really smooth.

-any web developers on here right click on something and click the "inspect element" button.

so far i find it the greatest feature...i was stunned.

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Berserk87

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Wrench Icon > Options > Basics Tab > Check "Show Home button on the toolbar"

i was in there looking for it and didnt see it :p

i just pooped a brick again.

when your in a form there is a small arrow/dots in the bottom right corner, click and drag it.... :|

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39 Thieves

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Just made a blog post about my impression on Google Chrome.

Ovearll I like it alot. It's fast, stable and considering it's the first beta version, there are a lot of space for improvements!

Thumbs up to Google!

No offense, but why exactly should we care about your blog?

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Berserk87

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No offense, but why exactly should we care about your blog?

it usually annoys me when people post blog links, but he actually did a really nice/straight to the point write up.

lot of things i didnt know, saved me from having to look for stuff :)

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The_Decryptor Veteran

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i was in there looking for it and didnt see it :p

i just pooped a brick again.

when your in a form there is a small arrow/dots in the bottom right corner, click and drag it.... :|

It shouldn't be doing that, and neither should Safari (The default value of that CSS rule is "none")

It'll be nice once other browsers start supporting that rule though.

Edit: And the web inspector looks broken.

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