Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 20 of 37

Thread: I just tried Google Chrome?!

Hybrid View

Previous Post Previous Post   Next Post Next Post
  1. #1

    Default I just tried Google Chrome?!

    Yeah, I'm usually not the one to change my ways after a year or 2, I JUST downloaded Chrome and I am really impressed by the UI, speed, and everything! It's a pretty Browser.

    I find things considerably faster, and I like how when you go to type something in a chatbox it highlights it in Orange, very nice.

    Also when you open GC theres a page that has "most visited" with a screenshot of the page and its easy to pickout which site you like.

    Me Likey!
    >>>>> METAL BLOGGGGGGGG <<<<<

    I <3 Student Loans
    EVGA GTX580 1.5GB GPU
    AMD Phenom II 955BE C3 3.2GHz @ 19c idle
    16GB G.skill 1600MHz RAM DDR3
    Corsair Force 3 60GB SSD, 150GB Velociraptor, 2x2TB Storage Drives
    Corsair TX650W PSU
    Asus 2x24" Vertical Monitors + 1 Sony EX500 46" LCD TV
    Corsair Obsidian 800D

    Bell FiberOP Internet 70mbps DOWN 30mbps UP

  2. #2
    Strelok's Avatar Civitate
    Join Date
    Jul 2008
    Location
    Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    4,143

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    This has inspired me to do some tinkering and make everything text based because your liking of GUI's piss me off.


  3. #3
    D.B. Cooper's Avatar Tribunus
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Location
    Ottawa, Canada
    Posts
    7,119

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    You can make the text boxes larger/smaller. Huge pro.


  4. #4
    Simetrical's Avatar Former Chief Technician
    Patrician

    Join Date
    Nov 2004
    Location
    θ = π/0.6293, φ = π/1.293, ρ = 6,360 km
    Posts
    20,154

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    I'm waiting for Chrome to work on Linux. And, preferably, for extensions to work.
    Quote Originally Posted by tw3kr-PC View Post
    This has inspired me to do some tinkering and make everything text based because your liking of GUI's piss me off.

    Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

    Quote Originally Posted by D.B. Cooper View Post
    You can make the text boxes larger/smaller. Huge pro.
    Safari has it too ― Chrome uses the same rendering engine, WebKit (with some modifications), so they share a lot of features.
    MediaWiki developer, TWC Chief Technician
    NetHack player (nao info)


    Risen from Prey

  5. #5

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    Quote Originally Posted by Simetrical View Post
    I'm waiting for Chrome to work on Linux. And, preferably, for extensions to work.

    Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 


    Safari has it too ― Chrome uses the same rendering engine, WebKit (with some modifications), so they share a lot of features.
    Cool, I did not know you used Linux.
    Not that I use it my self. lol


    Lets see, there is Firefox, Google Chrome, IE, and Safari. There's just sooooooooo many! Quick lets have a download frenzy!
    Last edited by removeduser_4563362; January 15, 2009 at 10:21 AM.

  6. #6
    Strelok's Avatar Civitate
    Join Date
    Jul 2008
    Location
    Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    4,143

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    Lets see, there is Firefox, Google Chrome, IE, and Safari. There's just sooooooooo many! Quick lets have a download frenzy!
    Netscape, Opera, Maxthon....

    list goes on

  7. #7

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    I actually am trying it now and I love it. It is really fast, and considering my internet connection hates me, that is a huge bonus.

  8. #8

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    Scale of 1 to 10, what is it? Is it better then FF?

  9. #9

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    Quote Originally Posted by Hannibal14 View Post
    Scale of 1 to 10, what is it? Is it better then FF?


    Well speed is surely a 10, but I can't make a rash conclusion, considering I have only been using GC for 20 minutes now.

  10. #10
    english tyrant's Avatar Domesticus
    Join Date
    Dec 2006
    Location
    Colchester
    Posts
    2,112

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    I'm using it at the moment and although I was a firefox fanboy as such, I have sort of been converted. The only thing that I can see that is absent is the scroll thing. Where you click the middle mouse button and it scrolls up and down, where has that gone?

  11. #11

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    Yeah and I can't get it working with hotmail? I go to click a message and it dosnt open it. Odd, lol
    >>>>> METAL BLOGGGGGGGG <<<<<

    I <3 Student Loans
    EVGA GTX580 1.5GB GPU
    AMD Phenom II 955BE C3 3.2GHz @ 19c idle
    16GB G.skill 1600MHz RAM DDR3
    Corsair Force 3 60GB SSD, 150GB Velociraptor, 2x2TB Storage Drives
    Corsair TX650W PSU
    Asus 2x24" Vertical Monitors + 1 Sony EX500 46" LCD TV
    Corsair Obsidian 800D

    Bell FiberOP Internet 70mbps DOWN 30mbps UP

  12. #12
    madscientist22's Avatar Tiro
    Join Date
    Oct 2006
    Location
    University of Southern California, California, USA
    Posts
    236

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    I've been using Chrome for a couple of months now, I think either in late November or early December and I've really been liking it.

    I think the best feature is that every tab or rather every site runs as a different process so you only lose a lil bit of your surfing when one tab crashes. It also means you can make every tab a new window or vice versa: it's great!!! I usually use that feature at least once a day; it's great for temporarily opening a lot of tabs from one site or for copying something from one tab to another.
    Intel Core i7 920
    Asus P6T Deluxe X58
    EVGA Geforce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB
    OCZ Gold (3x1GB) DDR3 1600

  13. #13
    Strelok's Avatar Civitate
    Join Date
    Jul 2008
    Location
    Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    4,143

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!


    I think the best feature is that every tab or rather every site runs as a different process so you only lose a lil bit of your surfing when one tab crashes
    No tab should crash anyways...

  14. #14

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    Actually I was suprised with the excellence of Chrome - I expected it to be a browser everyone would laugh at and say "Epic phail!", since Google made it - however, it's a lot better than IE, not sure on Firefox though - since Firefox will always have great features that I like

  15. #15
    Simetrical's Avatar Former Chief Technician
    Patrician

    Join Date
    Nov 2004
    Location
    θ = π/0.6293, φ = π/1.293, ρ = 6,360 km
    Posts
    20,154

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    Quote Originally Posted by Hannibal14 View Post
    Cool, I did not know you used Linux.
    Not that I use it my self. lol
    Well, look at my sig. And if you were thinking for a minute there I actually use a text-only browser normally, look at my sig again.
    Quote Originally Posted by english tyrant View Post
    I'm using it at the moment and although I was a firefox fanboy as such, I have sort of been converted. The only thing that I can see that is absent is the scroll thing. Where you click the middle mouse button and it scrolls up and down, where has that gone?
    That's been added for 2.0, but it's not available yet if you stick with the standard version of Chrome. That's one of the things that annoys me about it. Probably kinks like this will be worked out by the time a Linux version is available, happily.
    Quote Originally Posted by tw3kr-PC View Post
    No tab should crash anyways...
    In an ideal world, no, but practically some will, and this is a good boost to stability. Of course, the separate-process architecture has a lot of other benefits too (e.g., for security and memory leaks).
    MediaWiki developer, TWC Chief Technician
    NetHack player (nao info)


    Risen from Prey

  16. #16

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    Quote Originally Posted by Simetrical View Post
    Well, look at my sig. And if you were thinking for a minute there I actually use a text-only browser normally, look at my sig again.

    That's been added for 2.0, but it's not available yet if you stick with the standard version of Chrome. That's one of the things that annoys me about it. Probably kinks like this will be worked out by the time a Linux version is available, happily.

    In an ideal world, no, but practically some will, and this is a good boost to stability. Of course, the separate-process architecture has a lot of other benefits too (e.g., for security and memory leaks).
    Good old simetrical, always shedding light on all matters, big and small. LOL

    No, I did not think you did, but you never know... 0_0!

  17. #17
    Horsa's Avatar Artifex
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Location
    Isle of Slingers
    Posts
    3,769

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    I've got Google Chrome.
    Fastest browser ever!!

  18. #18
    Simetrical's Avatar Former Chief Technician
    Patrician

    Join Date
    Nov 2004
    Location
    θ = π/0.6293, φ = π/1.293, ρ = 6,360 km
    Posts
    20,154

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    Safari is very fast too, I've heard, at least on Macs. I always found Opera to be fast too. IE and Firefox are both slow, in my unscientific experience.
    MediaWiki developer, TWC Chief Technician
    NetHack player (nao info)


    Risen from Prey

  19. #19
    Calvin's Avatar Countdown: 7 months
    Citizen

    Join Date
    May 2007
    Location
    UK, and USA soon enough
    Posts
    3,348

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    Quote Originally Posted by Simetrical View Post
    Safari is very fast too, I've heard, at least on Macs. I always found Opera to be fast too. IE and Firefox are both slow, in my unscientific experience.
    I actually found that firefox ran faster on my mac than safari did. I was surprised. I use chrome on my windows desktop but there are some annoying little bugs that irritate me - like whatever stuff facebook uses does not agree with chrome. I click buttons to delete stuff and it just doesn't work.
    Developer for Roma Surrectum 2 || Follow my move to the USA in Calvin's Corner
    Son of Noble Savage || Proud patron of [user]Winter[/user], [user]Lord of the Knights[/user] and [user]fergusmck[/user]

  20. #20
    Horsa's Avatar Artifex
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Location
    Isle of Slingers
    Posts
    3,769

    Default Re: I just tried Google Chrome?!

    Quote Originally Posted by Calvin View Post
    I actually found that firefox ran faster on my mac than safari did. I was surprised. I use chrome on my windows desktop but there are some annoying little bugs that irritate me - like whatever stuff facebook uses does not agree with chrome. I click buttons to delete stuff and it just doesn't work.
    Was that the BETA?

Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •