Mon
Sep 1 2008
08:28 pm
Move over IE and Firefox
By: R. Neal

Here comes Google Chrome.

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gonzone's picture

Mozilla

Submitted by gonzone on Tue, 2008/09/02 - 3:14pm.

Mozilla calls it's skins "chrome" too.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson

Opinari's picture

Download

Submitted by Opinari on Tue, 2008/09/02 - 2:47pm.

I'm still looking for the beta download that was allegedly going to be posted this morning. The Chrome website redirects to the main Google page. I've no real opinion about browsers, other than their insane tendency to cannibalize resources on the PC, but the Chrome model of giving each tab its own thread in the OS has some nice possibilities. And hey, maybe it will not have that annoying FLV bug that Mozilla/Firefox has. Of course, this is all speculation since nothing has been posted today for users to try.

gonzone's picture

Here's info

Submitted by gonzone on Tue, 2008/09/02 - 3:13pm.

"the Chrome model of giving each tab its own thread in the OS has some nice possibilities."

Well, not exactly a thread model but your point is still valid.
(link...)

Be sure to check out the comic book style explanation.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson

R. Neal's picture

Here's the link:Link...

Submitted by R. Neal on Tue, 2008/09/02 - 5:04pm.

Here's the download:

(link...)

mjw's picture

Release, then iterate

Submitted by mjw on Tue, 2008/09/02 - 5:22pm.

True to their norm, they are releasing a Windows version with MacOS and Linux versions to come.

Paone's picture

Thanks for the link!

Submitted by Paone on Tue, 2008/09/02 - 8:19pm.

Gee, way to force a person to register. (Kidding - great idea!) Anyway, Chrome seems to handle pretty well. Kinda plain, but makes up for it in speed. The full-screen view takes some getting used to, but it's a clean layout that seems to handle the majority of the sites I visit - ESPN, OpenSports, my webcomics, etc.

Best aspect: Low resource footprint. Seems to want to start a new process every now and again, but it seems to be a sporadic issue - chalk it up to the beta status.

Worst aspect: I'll let you know when I find one.

It'll be something to keep an eye on as the project progresses.

"It ain't over until it's over." - Y. Berra

Paone's picture

Found something I didn't like.

Submitted by Paone on Tue, 2008/09/02 - 8:24pm.

No Home button, from what I've been able to find. Anyone else find one?

"It ain't over until it's over." - Y. Berra

Opinari's picture

Finally

Submitted by Opinari on Tue, 2008/09/02 - 5:19pm.

I've loaded it and am playing with it now. It is quite fast, but has a difficult time handling some of our internal AJAX sites. So far, it seems to have had difficulty holding session state on certain sites. For example, I can log into an external MRP site, and the next screen says that I have not logged in. I don't have this error in IE or FF, so I'm not sure what the issue is.

On the plus side, the KV site looks very nice. Thumbs up for W3C compliance. :-)

I should add too that the Task Manager is very interesting. It allows the user to see which threads are using the most resources. Nice feature.

Mykhailo's picture

No Home button, from what

Submitted by Mykhailo on Wed, 2008/09/03 - 1:10am.

No Home button, from what I've been able to find. Anyone else find one?

Open 'Options' from the little wrench thingy in the upper right -- you can set a homepage and put a Home button on the toolbar in the Basic tab (although, while I can't remember the last time I actually set a homepage, I think I might actually use the SpeedDial ripoff that populates a new tab by default)

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