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Google Chrome - Google's Web Browser Revealed

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MOTHERFUCKERS.

Just another goddamn browser to have to test shit on >:|

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reilo said:
MOTHERFUCKERS.

Just another goddamn browser to have to test shit on >:|

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The engine is the same as Safari. It won't change all that much.
 
Sounds very intelligent form a backend point of view...wonder if that will be transparent enough to the users to gain any market share.

If the memory management and task manager work the way Google say they do, it should do well.
 
I'll definitely give this a shot. Google seems to understand interfaces pretty well. I like their phone apps better than the ones that came on my last two phones. I just ask that it be as fast as FF at loading pages. FF eats IE's lunch in speed, which is why I don't use IE. IE Tab is even faster than regular IE, it seems. :lol PEACE.
 
Pimpwerx said:
I'll definitely give this a shot. Google seems to understand interfaces pretty well. I like their phone apps better than the ones that came on my last two phones. I just ask that it be as fast as FF at loading pages. FF eats IE's lunch in speed, which is why I don't use IE. IE Tab is even faster than regular IE, it seems. :lol PEACE.
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FF on MacOSX doesn't render Flash as fast as Safari does, so I'm hopeful the new Chrome browser is as fast as Safari at that. The problem I have with Safari is that it lacks simple things such as right click > properties, plus the fact no Firebug for Safari.
 
reilo said:
FF on MacOSX doesn't render Flash as fast as Safari does, so I'm hopeful the new Chrome browser is as fast as Safari at that. The problem I have with Safari is that it lacks simple things such as right click > properties, plus the fact no Firebug for Safari.
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That's true - I really miss Fireshot, Firebug and Web Developer for Safari, and the animated gif rendering sucks ass (WTF is Apple thinking, a simple animated gif devouring CPU cycles and slowing down the entire system?)

Still, I wind up coming back to Safari, it's lightweight, fast and well integrated with the system. With easier plugin support (inputmanagers suck) and faster GIF rendering, it would be ace.
 
Starchasing said:
i only hope it looks good enough for my mac os x.... i only use safari for the looks :(
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6704

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Make FF3 look like Safari.
 
The web as an app platform aside, it sounds more like Google is ready to create an operating system than a web browser.
 
- Chrome has a privacy mode; Google says you can create an “incognito” window “and nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer.” The latest version of Internet Explorer calls this InPrivate. Google’s use-case for when you might want to use the “incognito” feature is e.g. to keep a surprise gift a secret. As far as Microsoft’s InPrivate mode is concerned, people also speculated it was a “porn mode.”
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Cool, but I'll wait for the FF3 extension. Really, there's absolutely no reason for any other browsers to be developed. FF+extensions is the ultimate browser
 
UltimaKilo said:
Why didn't they just buy Firefox? I'm really happy with Firefox 3. :D
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Because it sounds like Chrome is architecturally very different from Firefox and every other browser on the market. It's sort of like the leap from Windows 3.1 to Windows NT with preemptive multitasking, protected memory spaces, etc.
 
So is this going to start yet another browser war? How is Safari on windows doing? Has Apple gained any market share?
 
UltimaKilo said:
So is this going to start yet another browser war? How is Safari on windows doing? Has Apple gained any market share?
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Safari (both OS X and Windows) still has something in the garden of 5% market share.

Any browser that grabs share from IE is a browser I will advocate. Though FF3 is the best, by far, in nearly every conceivable way.
 
yoopoo said:
Only for cache, not for history or bookmarks.

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I thought 9.5 had that really weird thing that made it save "copies" of your history so it comes up when you type in the address bar?
 
Is this a good idea? I was hoping Google would adopt FireFox or join forces with Mozilla to wrestle the market away from Microsoft first.

IE needs to go.
 
I, for one, am glad that Google is not partnering with Mozilla. While Firefox 3.0 is a vast improvement over the bloat that enveloped 2.0, it's still far from optimal. It is not my browser of choice, especially on OSX.

Chrome is using Webkit which means that it will render as well as Safari (read: excellent) but if they're making significant improvements under the hood, even better.

I'll be interested to see what Google can bring to the table.
 
If I can't get the tabs at the bottom of the screen it'll be tough for me to use it.

Also if it doesn't have mouse gestures than its a giant fail.
 
yoopoo said:
If I can't get the tabs at the bottom of the screen it'll be tough for me to use it.

Also if it doesn't have mouse gestures than its a giant fail.
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gonna need to know the extensions involved before I try.
 
I'd like to try this. Mainly because I liked how fast Safari for windows felt (but HATED that it bypasses cleartype and uses it's own shitty anti-aliasing for fonts).
 
Sounds like Google wants to keep Chrome simple and less bloated, so I'm keeping my expectations low. Probably won't have mouse gestures, or a password manager, browser mask, blocked content, etc. After looking at the info released so far, it seems closer to IE than anything. Who knows how often this will get updated... The GTalk client which had a lot of potential is still very featureless.
 
Really nothing interesting about this. It needs at least one killer feature, and putting tabs ABOVE the buttons doesn't accomplish that..
 
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