[Caael]

I'm using google chrome right now, and it's pretty good. The interface is much cleaner than any other web browser except maybe safari, its much, much easier to use and generally better than IE. No add-ons as of now, but seeing as its only beta, hopefully when the full version is launched we could see some add-ons.

[Someone Else]

Sticking with FireFox for now. Google is trying to take over the internets!

[Drizzy Drake]

it's gonna happen. watch, they'll have yahoo, and wikipedia aquired in no time. youtube was the first to go :D.

[Toasty]

Chrome has too many problems for now. It looks sleek, and it's got some nice features, bt I'm sticking with good ol' IE7.

[Split Infinity]

Support for Classic theme or gtfo.

I'm surprised Adobe/Macromedia hasn't made their own browser yet.

[Lemontime]

Just downloaded and am using it now, seems very cool. Nice and slim! I like it.

[Caael]

The only problem I have so far with Chrome is that you cant click the scroll wheel in and use it to quickly scroll pages, but it's only an issue on my dads computer because my mouse scrolls incredibly fast anyway.

[Split Infinity]

Well, it doesn't support feeds or a search bar yet, but it does look like an interesting program. The thing starts up incredibly fast, the pseudo-Vista skin doesn't even slow my system down, or the tab animations, and the memory footprint is about half that of IE7. Probably the most notable feature at the moment is the enclosed task manager, which should have been mandatory for all browsers long ago.

[Caael]

I love the download manager at the bottom as well. It's so much simpler and effective to use than most other browsers. I see this becoming my default browser when it's fully released.

[Split Infinity]

Hah, I tried downloading Opera as a test and the thing slowed to about 50B/s. :D

[Saturos S.]

I'm using it now, it's pretty good.

Don't like the design of the tab bar that much. But the features are quite good.

Seriously, these features rock.

[Caael]

*defaults*

Omg, comparing it to IE and everything in this is so much better to use. I cannot wait for the full release.

[Split Infinity]

Why the hell isn't there a Home button though?

[EDIT] Found it under Options. I don't know why it isn't default though.

[Toasty]

Screw Chrome! *hugs IE8 and runs off*

[Caael]

I'm not sure if you could do this with other browsers, but you can change fonts with chrome, which is fun. Putting all words in wingdings is hilarious for a while.

[Split Infinity]

You can.

Tools > Internet Options > Fonts

[David]

I'm currently using Firefox 3, and I'm quite happy with it, but I've heard a lot of good things about the Google Chrome. I have have to download it and check it out for myself.

...Then again, I may just wait for the full release. That may be better.

[Saturos S.]

I'm just wondering why they chose such an ugly blue colour for the tabs bar.

I was expecting something more safari-like up there.

[David]

Saturos Striker, on Sep 7 2008, 02:11 PM, said:

I'm just wondering why they chose such an ugly blue colour for the tabs bar.

I was expecting something more safari-like up there.

Or even something like what they have for firefox would be better than that, I'd expect.

[Saturos S.]

Firefox' tabs and everything above it (search bar etc.) makes it too fat.

Functionality on chrome is awesome. It's just a design flaw.

O, and the bugs.

[David]

Saturos Striker, on Sep 7 2008, 03:04 PM, said:

Firefox' tabs and everything above it (search bar etc.) makes it too fat.

Functionality on chrome is awesome. It's just a design flaw.

O, and the bugs.

Then perhaps I made the right decision by waiting for the full version...perhaps they'll have those bugs fixed by then.

[Riyna]

Ohh, I have Chrome! I really like it, it's so fast and looks really awesome, to boot. o__O There are some bugs--but I'm hoping they all get fixed in the full release. :P

[Toasty]

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/moz...ed-to-gecko.ars

This is an article that talks about both FireFox's and Chrome's HTML rendering engines (Gecko and WebKit epectively), and how FireFox 3 is now even more efficient than Safari (which is a very light-weight and sucky browser, and also uses WebKit).

Anyway, it has soe technical mumbo-jumbo, but most of it is pretty straight foreward and easy to follow.

[Split Infinity]

Google Chrome out of Beta

The guys at Google are kidding themselves, the program still lacks dozens of the basic functions which are standard in modern browsers, not to mention that in the jump from 0.4 to 1.0 the program still feels exactly the same.

Furthermore...

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Davide said...

i like chrome, it is light years from firefox and IE, think about the multithreaded design, is very nice and clean!

it can use a dual core capabilities! and even quadri cores are used (1 thread for the browser, 1 thread for the flash plugin and 1 thread for each tab )

the minimal style is what i like, and the pop up blocking is heavenly perfect!

the v8 engine is an example of clever programming techniques!

so i'm happy that finally this masterpiece of software is out of beta, because was a beta better than many other stable software.

anyway a beta differs from a stable release only for the stability! not for the features!

the features can be added with future releases!

i feel chrome more stable than firefox at this point, there is some glitch around but nothing major!

go up chrome team ! you deserve it !

really you bring something fresh on the computer industry! and this is global crysis time!

ps: some ideas...

when i push the arrow back button, firefox usually is more responsive! fix that please ;-)

[Caael]

I still use it :|

IE gives me ****loads of pop-ups, dont like the firefox interface and I would use safari if I could be ****ed to download it.

[Toasty]

Safari sucks huge massive balls. Don't even bother with it.

And the guy in Split's quote is a ***. Seriously, who even needs multi-threaded web browsing? Aside from people who have a thousand something tabs open, I don't see any use for it. Even the lowliest of dual cores can handle multi-tabbed web browsing with ease.

If you want a speed increase, push for a faster rendering engine, or get a faster connection.


Besides all of that, like Split said, it's still lacking a lot of features. Plus, I don't like the UI.

[Split Infinity]

Single-threaded programs really start to slow down after a while though, especially on sub-par machines like this one. I have to kill IE7 every few hours just to reset the program cache.

[Toasty]

Having multiple threads wouldn't make it any better unless you had a dual core. Heck, it'd probably even use more virtual memory.

[Split Infinity]

Runs faster on my single core.

[Kuchiyose]

quad core :D But yeah I'm sticking with Firefox... I just feels snug as a bug with firefox, Chrome is... meh

[Caael]

Single, crap core.

I really need a better CPU. Seriously.

[Toasty]

Get an E5200 if you've got an intel rig.

'Course, you probably don't have a socket 775 system either.

[Caael]

Asus :/