Anybody using Google Chrome?

**Val** · 09-07-2008, 01:51 AM

It's google's new web browser.

I heard it's super fast and easy with a marvelous navegation.

Is anyone testing it right now?

**mced** · 09-07-2008, 02:51 AM

No Linux version :(

But I'm gonna give it a try when it comes. I will stay with Opera as default browser, but if it's a light one than I can use when loading heavy pages (like Youtube), I will sure run it.

Anyway, I don't like Google's philosophy about web apps.

Samson The Cat · 09-07-2008, 11:52 AM

Not me. I'm very conservative, when it comes to browsers, meaning I mainly use the IE (7), one sometimes FF (3) and very seldom Opera (9).

**Frasier** · 09-07-2008, 11:57 AM

Tried it at work.

Everytime you open a new tab, it shows where you have been before.... very embarrassing!

**mced** · 09-07-2008, 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frasier

Tried it at work.

Everytime you open a new tab, it shows where you have been before.... very embarrassing!

LOL: http://gizmodo.com/5046344/google-ch...ives-dignities

But that feature can be turned off. I guess. Probably.

Captain Beefheart · 09-08-2008, 04:43 AM

Opera 9.5 for me as well.

It's probably the safest, most reliable, easiest interface browser i've toyed around with. It's funny that Firefox copied the "high speed dial" grid from Opera as that's probably one of the best applications, and I can't help but ask myself why couldn't someone think of something like that before, but it's expected seeing they were the originators of tab browsing.

**Frasier** · 09-08-2008, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mced

LOL: http://gizmodo.com/5046344/google-ch...ives-dignities

But that feature can be turned off. I guess. Probably.

I see, you understand the problem

You can switch to anonymous mode, but you can't turn this feature of in normal mode. Even deleting the history doesn't work, at least in the version I tried.

And even if you only use it for business purposes, I don't think that anyone should find out where I get my information from... at least not so easily.

Captain Beefheart · 09-08-2008, 02:49 PM

It's still a BETA, but you should probably try incognito mode(far right side next to the address bar), it will automatically delete history, cookies when you log on again)

Anyways I forgot to mention, but one the reasons i'm kinda turned off by Google and call me paranoid but there's a troubling tendency for us to trust "young" and "progressive" companies like Google, offering up way too much information with way too few guarantees as to where it goes, and to what purpose. Google is a publicly traded company, and yeah, it's doing well presently so there's little incentive for it to involve itself in anything too questionable and shady, but you never know.

**Val** · 09-09-2008, 11:32 AM

wannabe · 09-16-2008, 12:34 PM

I was all excited about Gmail, then read the ToS and decided not to bother. I imagine Google IE is more of the same.

As yet, nothing beats IE5's user interface, tho IE6 is close enough, and IE5 isn't available any more. I detest the obscene waste of my screen real estate, they way they waste every other resource (clocks, bytes, everything). If they were still trying to make these things efficient, our computers would need 1/10th the hardware to do what they do now, but they see this stuff is comparitively cheap now and think everyone wants to burn their money.

I like my screen to have useful information, not huge, useless interface buttons that are some idiot's idea of stylish. For the love of pizza, let me configure my freakin' window the way I want it to look! IE <7 does this, and that's why I don't use anything else.

09-07-2008, 01:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
Val Gear Heads Moderator Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Brazil Posts: 9,538 My Profile	Anybody using Google Chrome? It's google's new web browser. I heard it's super fast and easy with a marvelous navegation. Is anyone testing it right now?

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Captain Beefheart Mu nótahu Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: In a West End town, a dead end world Posts: 4,314 My Profile	Opera 9.5 for me as well. It's probably the safest, most reliable, easiest interface browser i've toyed around with. It's funny that Firefox copied the "high speed dial" grid from Opera as that's probably one of the best applications, and I can't help but ask myself why couldn't someone think of something like that before, but it's expected seeing they were the originators of tab browsing. Last edited by Captain Beefheart; 09-08-2008 at 04:55 AM..

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Captain Beefheart Mu nótahu Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: In a West End town, a dead end world Posts: 4,314 My Profile	It's still a BETA, but you should probably try incognito mode(far right side next to the address bar), it will automatically delete history, cookies when you log on again) Anyways I forgot to mention, but one the reasons i'm kinda turned off by Google and call me paranoid but there's a troubling tendency for us to trust "young" and "progressive" companies like Google, offering up way too much information with way too few guarantees as to where it goes, and to what purpose. Google is a publicly traded company, and yeah, it's doing well presently so there's little incentive for it to involve itself in anything too questionable and shady, but you never know. Last edited by Captain Beefheart; 09-08-2008 at 03:16 PM..

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09-07-2008, 02:51 AM	#2 (permalink)
mced Cannot live without Love Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Spain Posts: 2,136 My Profile	No Linux version :( But I'm gonna give it a try when it comes. I will stay with Opera as default browser, but if it's a light one than I can use when loading heavy pages (like Youtube), I will sure run it. Anyway, I don't like Google's philosophy about web apps.

09-07-2008, 11:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
Samson The Cat Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Thuringia Posts: 2,428 My Profile	Not me. I'm very conservative, when it comes to browsers, meaning I mainly use the IE (7), one sometimes FF (3) and very seldom Opera (9).

09-07-2008, 11:57 AM	#4 (permalink)
Frasier I.D.I.C. Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 5,285 My Profile	Tried it at work. Everytime you open a new tab, it shows where you have been before.... very embarrassing!

09-16-2008, 12:34 PM	#10 (permalink)
wannabe Lacey's Man Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 266 My Profile	I was all excited about Gmail, then read the ToS and decided not to bother. I imagine Google IE is more of the same. As yet, nothing beats IE5's user interface, tho IE6 is close enough, and IE5 isn't available any more. I detest the obscene waste of my screen real estate, they way they waste every other resource (clocks, bytes, everything). If they were still trying to make these things efficient, our computers would need 1/10th the hardware to do what they do now, but they see this stuff is comparitively cheap now and think everyone wants to burn their money. I like my screen to have useful information, not huge, useless interface buttons that are some idiot's idea of stylish. For the love of pizza, let me configure my freakin' window the way I want it to look! IE <7 does this, and that's why I don't use anything else.

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