Anybody trying Google’s new Web browser? Personally I prefer noncommercial.
They are releasing a beta on September 2nd.
The only feature that caught my eye was that each tab runs as a separate task. If you open a lot of tabs at once, it will stop he program from imploding.
Mukade
waiting for them to release it.
got it…its different.
not used to the google ads…
I just installed it. Very fast, nice UI. All in all quite pleasant to use.
Of course, a browser without adblocking capabilities is useless to me, so I’m not leaving FF anytime soon.
OK, here’s my quick take on Chrome …
I really, really, REALLY like it.
Best wishes,
Jerry
That, combined with not being able to stop extra tabs from opening, is what cause me to go back to Firefox after a short test run.
It’s open source. You’re surely not the only one with those complaints. Pretty soon, there’ll be plugins (my Gawd, there’s a spellchecker in this thing!) or an upgrade to customize those items. (Did I mention that I like it a lot?)
Best wishes,
Jerry
I’ll probably give it another shot when that’s available.
The only thing about I’ve noticed I don’t like so far is, there isn’t an auto-fill feature were you can save your frequently used information (name, email address, phone number, billing/mailing addresses, etc.) and then whenever a webpage with a form is loaded, the auto-fill feature offers to fill in the blanks with one mouseclick.
I expect that feature will become available pretty soon, as the issue is already showing up in online discussions.
For my purposes, the user interface is fantastic.
Best wishes,
Jerry
It is still in Beta.
I wouldn’t use it for any serious surfing.
It is very light and fast, but I expect that to change once you load up a few add-ons.
The text formatting is messing up a lot as I am typing now.
It still has quite a way to go.
The design features I like are the tab bar placed at the top of the screen
and the standard Windows menu and bookmarks being replaced by individual drop-down buttons on the right.
It gives the browser window more space and clears up the interface.
Mukade
Google Betas don’t run like normal Betas, I believe GMail is still technically in Beta as are many of their other tools.
I’ve been using it exclusively since I installed it (that would be several hours of “serious surfing”), and unless I discover a serious problem, it will be my default browser from now on.
I’ve observed the glitch with typing, but the behavior is comprehensible and I can live with it for now. It clears up if I wait a few seconds while the screen catches up with the keystrokes, or I can make it go away by scrolling up and down so the glitchy part is off the screen for a second. I assume they’ll clean that up eventually.
I’ve also observed that pages with video (YouTube, news clips, etc.) tend to hang up when you try to close them if the video hasn’t finished completely. I’ll check to see if I can control that by pausing the video before closing the tab.
The user interface is fantastic. The tabs arrangement is very clean and direct, and having my frequently visited favorite website links displayed on the bookmark toolbar is great. The integration of Google search and the URL box is extremely fast and convenient.
It should only get better. I’m very impressed and happy with it based on my experience so far.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Here’s an excellent review:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/09/03/review.chrome.ap/index.html
Best wishes,
Jerry
The only thing that’s annoyed me about it so far is that I keep double clicking the title bar and instead of a new tab I end up resizing my window.
That’s a standard Windows feature. Try it with any app.
Yeah i know that, but a standard browser feature is to double click beside your open tabs and a new tab will open. It’s a pain that it doesn’t happen in chrome.
I didn’t know that, thanks for the tip. I usually use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-T to open new tabs.
In other browsers (IE, Firefox), the tabs are below the address bar and separate from the title bar. In Chrome, it looks like the tabs are part of the title bar space.
I’m still using Chrome, and I’m very happy with it.
There’s a way you can automatically get beta updates before they’re made more widely available. Most of the issues have been fixed. The problems with videos have gone away, the problem with PDF documents not scrolling correctly has been fixed. Ironically, the only remaining bug that I encounter is the strange way it displays text as I enter it on this bulletin board. This doesn’t happen with other online forms (PayPal, eBay) I use.
What I like about it is, it’s lightning fast for the Internet, and just about everything about the user interface is perfect for my purposes.
Best wishes,
Jerry
The problem with Chrome inserting text strangely as you type a message is not occurring with this new version of the board. I can now say, for my purposes, the version of Chrome I’m using (version 0.4.154.23) is almost 100% bug free. The only thing I notice is, sometimes it hangs up when there’s a web page open with a Flash video I viewed before leaving the page, but that doesn’t happen often, and it’s easy to fix by turning off the offending page using Windows Task Manager, which I always keep open.
I’m extremely happy with Chrome and can’t imagine going back to Internet Explorer.
Best wishes,
Jerry