Google Chrome no longer beta

I want to give this a whirl and see how it goes.

I fear googles reaching too far now.

Privacy may be a concern.

Originally posted by elk1007:

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I fear googles reaching too far now.

Privacy may be a concern.

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Originally posted by elk1007:

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I fear googles reaching too far now.

Privacy may be a concern.

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Personally, I will just hang out for a while and see how it goes for those that use it. Keeping my eye on it though. o.O

I am surprised that Google took Chrome out of Beta so quickly. I am kind of glad they did.

I actually use it regularly, and probably will until FF3.1 is final.

I have been using it a bit myself and I must say...Im impressed! I like the feel of it and I definitely like the incognito tab :P

I hope they will incorporate the google tool bar like FF and IE have.

All in all...I like it!

I used it yesterday for like half an hour and found it too be not user friendly that much. Yes it is a great program but however for the average general user that is not Computer Litrate it can be a headache but for the rest of us the learning curve is less than five minutes.

It felt like it had a few more bugs to figure out aswell soo i guess i will wait till i see improvements Internet Explorer and FireFox are still way ahead.

used the browser and its crap, on the other hand it only increases googles monopoly.

Originally posted by Leningrad:

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used the browser and its crap, on the other hand it only increases googles monopoly.

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Let's face it. Even if it's the best thing sinced sliced bread(#20), you can't really get rid of IE since it is the computer explorer built into Windows.

I tried it for about 30 minutes earlier today and it was ok but I'm just so used to FF2 I'll have to use it longer I guess. I've got K-meleon running on the other computer right now and I like it a little better but it's based on something Mozilla has. lol. It's dang fast too. ;)

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I've been using Chrome for about two months and I'm completely used to it. For a browser it does what I want as far as basic browsing goes. I still turn to FF3 from time to time when I need to utilize certain plugins.

I uninstalled chrome, it was acting strange and connecting to pages slow. Probably just something on my crappy computer causing a problem, I will try Chrome again though.

I use 4 years old Celeron-based laptop as my work computer and Firefox has been giving me fits for the past year or so with its slowness and constant hang-ups that even full re-install couldn't fix (memory leaks...).

Switched to Chrome 3 weeks ago and despite some getting-used-to stuff at first, I'm pretty confident that it'll my browser of choice for quite some time.

Sure, plugins would be nice, but not necessary -- only plugin that I really do miss is the one that gave me full control of the tabbing in Firefox (I prefer to keep the tabs at the bottom of the browser window, etc). But then again, now I have a browser that feels fast even on 1GHz Celeron (with 1.5GB RAM). And I admit it, I'm falling in love with the Chrome's default "new tab" page.

Worth a try .. worth a longer-than-one-day try to be exact, as it has some stuff made so much different than in other browsers, it takes some time to get used to it.

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Let's face it. Even if it's the best thing sinced sliced bread(#20), you can't really get rid of IE since it is the computer explorer built into Windows.

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One other feature I enjoy, which I didn't learn about until about my fifth day with Chrome, is the closing tabs feature.

Yes you can close all other tabs in Firefox but, without a plug-in, you don't have as much tab control compared to what Chrome gives you.

That is you can close all other tabs, just the ones to the right of a specific tab, or any child tabs spawned by a specific tab. You can also "drag and drop" tabs to rearrange them, which makes them easier to organize or close a bunch of them at once after a little switching around.

Originally posted by dRD:

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I remember reading an article couple of weeks ago where Google guys said that they have partnerships in place with guys like Dell and HP which they plan to use to get the Chrome as the default browser for all new laptops made by their partners. Google might have the muscle to get the Joe Averages to swap their default browser :-) A muscle that Mozilla/Firefox seem to lack.

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One other feature I enjoy, which I didn't learn about until about my fifth day with Chrome, is the closing tabs feature.

Yes you can close all other tabs in Firefox but, without a plug-in, you don't have as much tab control compared to what Chrome gives you.

That is you can close all other tabs, just the ones to the right of a specific tab, or any child tabs spawned by a specific tab. You can also "drag and drop" tabs to rearrange them, which makes them easier to organize or close a bunch of them at once after a little switching around.

Originally posted by dRD:

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I remember reading an article couple of weeks ago where Google guys said that they have partnerships in place with guys like Dell and HP which they plan to use to get the Chrome as the default browser for all new laptops made by their partners. Google might have the muscle to get the Joe Averages to swap their default browser :-) A muscle that Mozilla/Firefox seem to lack.

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That would be nice to see because it would help get the less tech savvy crowd off IE and onto a different browser.

Peace

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I am giving this web browser another go give it a good and propper chance.

Originally posted by Run4two:

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Let's face it. Even if it's the best thing sinced sliced bread(#20), you can't really get rid of IE since it is the computer explorer built into Windows.

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I must stick with FF because I need spell checking

Originally posted by electriac:

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I must stick with FF because I need spell checking

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Originally posted by electriac:

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I must stick with FF because I need spell checking

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it has spell checking. It has everything firefox does.

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Originally posted by electriac:

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I must stick with FF because I need spell checking

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it has spell checking. It has everything firefox does.

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Does it allow extensions, and if it does then does it do the main two I use and everybody else I know uses, namely AdBlock and NoScript??

I haven't bothered checking because I can't run it yet - but I'm assuming a company built on advertising isn't going to integrate or allow an AdBlock extension... but I'm really asking if those two are in there, not making a statement that they arn't! Anybody know?

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Cool - thanks for the info... I'm looking forward to the mac/linux versions more now then, if they make the extension api similar enough to ff I'm expecting most people to port their stuff over pretty quickly! :)

How's security on this Chrome thing? Any good? I'm guessing it's better than IE?

maybe it is just one step to many in using google product, but what the heck they know enough about me already.

i have been using chrome mostly since the first beta release. it took some getting used to, but still worthy of being a browser. the main thing i liked was that i can pull a tab out of the list and start a new window with it. there were a couple of things i didnt like about it like the lack of a menu bar, and extensions that allow for unnecessary crap (downloading youtube vids) but there were workarounds that worked for me. all in all, chrome works for what i need... reading webcomics and afterdawn news letters.