LarkSS Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 I'm finding Chrome to be pretty nifty. Sure it's missing quite a bit of essential features at the moment and it doesn't work with certain pages as good as it could ( though it amazingly runs the booths page fine and dandy ), I see a lot of potential as this is only the very first beta. ( I have to say though, I'm not too fond of the way part of the URL is grayed out the way it is; maybe if it wasn't as light of a gray I wouldn't be so peeved. ) Edit: Holy shit in-browser spell check. <3 Edit2: Did anyone else notice Chrome's built-in html viewer ( with syntax ) and inspector? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 Wouldn't it be cool if the new tab page allowed you to drag and drop websites into it? Rather than just being determined based on page views? I visited Outspokin' Bikes one time. Yet it's the third option in the first row. It'd be cool if I could just drag and drop my Facebook, DevArt, and home page into those slots. Comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 Wouldn't it be cool if the new tab page allowed you to drag and drop websites into it? Rather than just being determined based on page views? I visited Outspokin' Bikes one time. Yet it's the third option in the first row. It'd be cool if I could just drag and drop my Facebook, DevArt, and home page into those slots. Comments. You mean like how Opera does it? I found it pretty silly how they presented it as if it were a new idea in their little web-comic. And I agree that "computer-determined most visited website!" will never trump user-selection and it just gets in the way when it tries, but hey, it's google after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 I suppose. I haven't tried Opera in awhile, though. Maybe I will. Also, it is beyond annoying that the window won't just anchor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverbounD Posted September 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 Does anyone know how to get the spell checker working? I'm the kind of guy who always uses it. It reds out the misspelled words but doesn't have options to fix it when I right click like firefox does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 It does. It's just not nearly as vigorous as Firefox's. Fore example, type paralel, it'll give you parallel, but type parilel and it won't give you a thing. Whereas firefox's will give you parietal, parimutuel, parallel, and particle... yea, I'm not sure which is better. But it kinda surprises me, because google's "did you mean" is almost always right. Probably because it's weighted by search popularity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Upon further inspection.. Chrome simply hates touching the edges of things. I can resize the window so that it doesn't touch the screen and it'll continue to open there, but the second it touches the screen, it like.. resists. And refuses to open in the same spot. Wtf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sockman Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 From what I've read, it still seems to be an early beta with a fair share of flaws. I'll wait for version 1.0 before giving it a shot, Firefox is working fine for my needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 And, somehow, there's like a whopping 57 groups dedicated to Google Chrome on Facebook. Phail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarkSS Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Quick memory report due to it being interesting ( at least to me ): Internet Explorer 7 beta 2: 3.05MB Firefox 3.0.1: 18.63MB Opera 9.52: 5.60MB Google Chrome first beta: 32.21MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssbfalcon Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 How do they all fare when you do a proper browsing session? Like, 5-10 tabs, where you browse each site a bit? I'll test this browser out tomorrow, as many of the concepts seem really neat... That, and I don't feel like booting into Win right now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowgoten Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 So I installed a fresh copy of XP onto my comp and am giving chrome a shot, so far so good, it's a decent browser, if firefox 3 is more of a resource whore than the previous 2 then i may stick with chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal-Geo Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 The lack of RSS kind of hurts my feelings. :< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ila Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Oh there must be an obscure RSS option somewhere! I think its located with the functionality. Okay I'm done taking cracks at the pretentious browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheonix Gamma Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Google rules the internet, ila. Don't be surprised if it slowly becomes a serious contender with Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Doesn't make it any less stupid for there to be no RSS. ::mauled:: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark team Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Screw FF3, Crhome's better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarkSS Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Google rules the internet, ila. Don't be surprised if it slowly becomes a serious contender with Firefox. Soon Google will rule over Microsoft whenever they come out with their own OS. How do they all fare when you do a proper browsing session? Like, 5-10 tabs, where you browse each site a bit? I just showed the amount of memory they took on the hard drive; I can post results of virtual memory consumption in awhile though. In a recent test though, I can say that Firefox 3 took up roughly 20MB more than Opera 9.52 did with Opera handling far more things at the time then Firefox was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Soon Google won't just rule the internet with an iron fist, but it will completely own an alternate internet and control the flow of information throughout the entire world ala MGS2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheonix Gamma Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Nanomachines! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 With everyone using Chrome, now google can monitor users full-time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Meh, runs fine for me, Also, feels comfy... I report a bug to Google about this broken image problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverbounD Posted September 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 Soon Google will rule over Microsoft whenever they come out with their own OS. I think its more likely they'll put the OS out of commission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 The only real problem I've had so far are problems which seem to happen for every new thing I download and am starting to think I reinstalled my computer poorly. Namely, sound drivers randomly failing, explorer lagging up a storm, and Visual Studio "just in time debugger" throwing svchost.exe errors like crazy. Usually they iron themselves out after a while. But I've been using it as my main browser since Firefox is downright screwed up on initialization (it takes like 5 minutes and always acts like it and all the pluggins have JUST been installed) and Opera both doesn't work for certain things I frequently use. Oh, and it doesn't have a auto-spell checker (Chrome's still isn't as good as Firefox's, but at least it'll tell me when I'm wrong). Now if Chrome just had an ad block which was comparable to Firefox's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ila Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 You know its not an issue of me trying to whore out Firefox, I just do not like the way Chrome is set up. Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts