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Geek Culture / New Web Browser: Google Chrome

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Insanity Complex
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Posted: 6th Sep 2008 07:35
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Lol @ Incognito windows:

Quote: "For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for example, to plan surprises like gifts or birthdays, Google Chrome offers the incognito browsing mode. Webpages that you open and files downloaded while you are incognito won't be logged in your browsing and download histories; all new cookies are deleted after you close the incognito window. You can browse normally and in incognito mode at the same time by using separate windows."


I'm fairly certain we all know what the main use of these windows will be. It has nothing to do with surprises. Anyway, just starting off with Chrome, seems interesting, so far nothing that will make me change from FF. But I am keeping an eye on it


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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 6th Sep 2008 21:34
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Chrome crashed on me - entirely. Not one tab, the whole browser. I can't scroll up using the mouse wheel. I prefer the firefox UI on XP and Vista. :/

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mamaji4
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Posted: 6th Sep 2008 21:51
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Quote: "For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for example, to plan surprises like gifts or birthdays, Google Chrome offers the incognito browsing mode."


Har,har,har.
This one had me in real splits. Tell me another one.
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Alucard94
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Posted: 6th Sep 2008 21:55
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Quote: "Har,har,har.
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HEY! That's copyrighted by Grandma!
And I'm not much for Google Chrome. It looks alright.


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mamaji4
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Quote: "HEY! That's copyrighted by Grandma!"


Grandma is my alter-ego so it's alright. I've taken permission.
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Grandma
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Posted: 6th Sep 2008 22:22
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Quote: "Har,har,har."

Quote: "HEY! That's copyrighted by Grandma!"

No, I tried to but it was taken. Some pirate I guess. I have copyrighted "hawhawhaw" though, and the variation "HAW HAW HAW!".

Quote: "Grandma is my alter-ego so it's alright. I've taken permission."

Oh shi-

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mamaji4
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Posted: 6th Sep 2008 23:08
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How about a few chuckles, two tee hees and a guffaw. That one is patented by Jerry Lewis. But I just have to use it sometimes.
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Sinani201
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Posted: 7th Sep 2008 00:24
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I was a big FireFox fan... until this came out! Google Chrome is AMAZING!!! Firefox is truly amazing... but this is just better! Yay for Google!



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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 7th Sep 2008 02:31
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You'll have to change your sig then mate, it still says Firefox user...

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JoelJ
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Posted: 7th Sep 2008 09:47
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I'm using Firefox again for the sake of plugins. But Chrome is totally my favorite aside from it's incompleteness.

But now whenever I see someone using IE I tell them to get Google Chrome. I do it by saying, "Hey, Google's got a web browser now, it's sweet". There's something about the name GOOGLE that gets people's attention. I'm slowly converting them all. It's such a good browser for the average user. But it's got a way to go for my use.


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Agent Dink
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Posted: 7th Sep 2008 15:55
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Yeah, I'm basically just waiting for more features/ plugins. Skins would be a plus as well, but to give Google credit the basic skin they have looks gorgeous in Vista anyhow.

I've already told a few people about it and you're right. They are more excited to switch to a Google browser than the unheard of company Mozilla. Silly, but oh well!

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Jeku
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Posted: 7th Sep 2008 21:14
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Firefox is open source, Google would be smart to build the same functionality for plugins into their browser. This would mean we could use the same plugins. I'm not sure if this is legal as some of the Firefox developers may not want their plugins associated with Google, and technically the two renderers are different.

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Also, I can't seem to figure out how to get the size of an image through Chrome. I right click one and click Inspect Element, but can't seem to find the right properties. Has anyone else figured that out?


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Satchmo
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Posted: 7th Sep 2008 23:48
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Clicking on your avater and inspecting the element, I get a ridiculously large number, but if I open it in a separate tab I get 64 x 64.

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the_winch
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Posted: 8th Sep 2008 03:12
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Quote: "Firefox is open source, Google would be smart to build the same functionality for plugins into their browser. This would mean we could use the same plugins."


I think one of the big advantages to chrome is that it is lean and mean and doesn't include a load of stuff that a web browser doesn't really need. Mozilla the platform on the other hand is pretty big and complicated. If google add a load of that junk to chrome to get firefox plugins working it will get bloated. They would be better of just making a branded version of firefox.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 8th Sep 2008 04:17
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I don't think people would mind rewriting their plugins for google if it increased the efficiency of the plugin.


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Pricey
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Posted: 8th Sep 2008 04:43
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I used an old Apple 400mhz G4 for a long time and I found the only web browser that didn't lag to the point of ridiculousness was Opera, it was actually pretty speedy and had plenty of cool features (speed dial, the search shortcuts in the address bar etc.) When I got my Mac Mini, I switched back to Firefox for security more than anything.

I will try this Chrome thing, but I read its gonna be a while for a Mac OS version to come out.

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Posted: 8th Sep 2008 10:24
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Good Heavens. I just downloaded Chrome and I notice that there are already 3 pages on this subject.

I use Firefox (can't go back to IE) and have just started testing Chrome for myself.

I do like the simplicity and how they keep certain things out of the way that don't really matter. Seems pretty fast to.

But I am still partial to Firefox and I've used all of Mozilla's stuff since day one. Yeah, I'm ancient. Opera in the early days was not very good and I believe it was more text oriented so I didn't get into it. But maybe I'm thinking of another browser.

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The Heavy
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Posted: 8th Sep 2008 11:14
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You can now customize the chrome interface, looks like some smarty pants beat me to it.

http://freechromethemes.com/

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Jeku
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Posted: 8th Sep 2008 18:25
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Quote: "I think one of the big advantages to chrome is that it is lean and mean and doesn't include a load of stuff that a web browser doesn't really need."


Firefox doesn't include plugins either--- you can choose to download them if you want. I think giving people the choice to add plugins can only be a good thing.


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The Heavy
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Posted: 8th Sep 2008 19:15
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Quote: "doesn't include a load of stuff that a web browser doesn't really need"


I would still prefer a stop button though

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JoelJ
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Posted: 8th Sep 2008 20:03
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I actually didn't even notice it until the other day when I was comparing the UI to other browsers. That's when I realized I never use it


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Kendor
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Posted: 8th Sep 2008 21:30
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Quote: "I would still prefer a stop button though "


But there is. The play/go symbol on the right hand side of the address bar, changes to a stop/X symbol when loading a page.

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Mahoney
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Quote: "I would still prefer a stop button though"


The Escape key is standard for stop with browsers.

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Posted: 9th Sep 2008 01:08
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But there is. The play/go symbol on the right hand side of the address bar, changes to a stop/X symbol when loading a page. "

tis brilliant!

Now they just need mouse gestures! If I had that, I would use Chrome


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bitJericho
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Ung, mouse gestures. What a terrible technology


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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 9th Sep 2008 03:55
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Flock's been doing that stop/refresh thing for a while now...

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Posted: 9th Sep 2008 04:21
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So has IE.

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Insanity Complex
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Posted: 9th Sep 2008 05:03 Edited at: 9th Sep 2008 05:04
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Quote: "I would still prefer a stop button though"


There is a stop button directly to the right of the url field...

[edit] a page behind I very much am xD


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Posted: 9th Sep 2008 07:23
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None of the links work on that page.


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I agree. Also, a way to tell that the browser is still working. I get a little impatient when nothing seems to be happening. Even though Chrome seems to be a little faster there are times of slow down that can't be helped and I have no clue as to whether it just gave up or is still working. So I click the button again. Dangerous if a person is ordering something. Don't want to pay for something twice.

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Quote: "Quote: "I would still prefer a stop button though"

I agree."

Quote: "But there is. The play/go symbol on the right hand side of the address bar, changes to a stop/X symbol when loading a page. "


Quote: "Flock's been doing that stop/refresh thing for a while now..."

Netscape/IE has been doing that web browsing thing for quite a while...
nothing to see here, move on.

There's really not any individual part of Chrome that makes it cool. They really didn't do anything new. But Chrome takes the best of everything and is putting it all together in a nice sleek way.


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Big Man
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Im writing this post from google chrome, I just wanted to check it out and I can safely say that I will be sticking with firefox
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what don't you like about it?


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I never cared for FF, still don't. Chrome starts quicker and has yet to crash even once. Even though I've liked Opera the most until recently, I still used IE by default. Chrome has very quickly made me change that habit. I don't think I've closed this window since I've installed it.


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The problem is, I frequently use some of the more advanced options, and they either don't exist, or take ages to get to in chrome.

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what advanced options?


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Quote: "what advanced options?"


While I'm not sure what options he's referring to, I know that I tweaked a lot of settings in about:config (with very good results). So, there is that major loss. Of course, Chrome may have similar, and I just don't know about it. Haven't used it but ten minutes.

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Phaelax
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Ok, Chrome just crashed on me. And while it asks if you want to restart it, it won't reload the tabs you had open.


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Phaelax, when it crashes, and you reopen and little dropdown by the address bar comes down(Like when firefox/ie blocks something) and asks you , if you start browsing, it goes away though.


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oh ok, must've missed it. Using IE for so long has trained me to ignore such popups.


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Posted: 12th Sep 2008 07:14 Edited at: 12th Sep 2008 07:15
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hahaha, yeah. I know what you mean. I actually missed it the first time as well.


So do you guys think that this will be the beginning of a trend of developers using multiple processes rather than multithreading?


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i think they will use both.

if you call me an idiot/retard again, ill stick my finger in your mouth, and i have a really dirty finger, you don't want it in there!
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