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Yep!!
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10-09-2008 09:20 |
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I quite like it, like the UI a lot more than FF. Loads of used screen-space, flexible UI (dragging tabs took 3 major versions in FF...), very unintrusive messages, and a few very cool idea's other browsers undoubtable will copy (which is a good thing).
Good to see some decent competition on browser-level. IE8 vs. Firefox vs. Chrome vs. Safari vs. Opera should be interesting to see... And that's one of the main reasons for Chrome's existance I think, making sure there are as standard-compliant browsers as possible so it doesn't matter what OS you're running. This means - threatening microsoft's position on the OS market - it's in google's best interest to push applications to the internet. You see this happening more & more, gmail, gcal, google docs, adobe even has an online version of it's photoshop. Once you have such a system, the OS won't matter for a lot of 'simple' and user-oriented applications.
Other thing google wants to archieve offcourse is to be able to stress certain strong points of it's own browser which are very important - javascript execution speeds in Chrome are so far ahead of the competition that it's not even funny, which is a very important thing for Google's own web-applications.
What I found striking was that when started for the first time, it asked which search engine you wanted to use as a default, offering Yahoo and a few others. Just pressing "OK" just took the default (google offcourse), but still - that's smth MS could learn from.
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11-09-2008 16:11 |
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True, and it's web apps where Chrome will really shine. Since it can execute javascript much faster all web apps will work much faster too.
The next version of Firefox will also compile javascript so it will gain a similar amount of speed. A beta of this is available for download. Some sites have tested the speed of Chrome vs FF 3.1.
I have read reports that the release of Chrome does not eat away at the user base of Internet Explorer though, rather it causes users of Firefox, Opera and Safari to convert to Chrome. This seems logical since the people that are still using Internet Explorer today are clearly not interested in using a better browser and will stick to Internet Explorer, no matter what improvements are made in the browser world...
I'm also sticking with Firefox for the time being, some addons that I use (eg Web Developer, Firebug, ...) are too good to miss out on, but I will certainly be using Chrome from time to time 
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11-09-2008 16:30 |
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it seems to be updating itself without notice 
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FF also downloads bugfix releases automatically now.
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28-09-2008 09:46 |
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cynik
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well I stopped using it as it started pissing me off. seems its update by update the thing is actually getting worse
the pauses are back with more bugs - plugins (flash) crash all the time and that wasnt on some crappy ass stream site where youd expect coding to be horrible - but often crashes on youtube.
what really pisses me off is sheer arrogance in its advertising which is clearly aimed at destroying competitions credibility. it instead destroys their own product when you discover all the crap they mention simply isnt true
the thing where they say "every tab is another process" is a nice idea but it just dont work, if a plugin crashes on one tab all the others are busted too. which IS crap ass advertising if you ask me.
more so - when a tab crashes for other unknown reasons (no plugins, regular html) that also crashes all other tabs. stability gone out of window, even IE is better than this
it seems they got the right idea which is not a great deal as anyone can think up ideas out of their asses but dont have the slightest idea how to accomplish them
back to the trusty "old" firefox!
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