In a somewhat unusual move, the Google team decided today to shift its Internet browser, Chrome, out of beta stage, just a hundred days after its debut and shortly after the latest updates of competing browsers such as Opera Browser and Mozilla Firefox.
Google, which has sometimes been criticized for its tendency to leave many of its products in beta stage even when they are already stable and highly reliable, hopes the announcement will help the lightweight browser gain some market share, currently around the 1 percent mark.
To download visit: http://www.google.com/chrome/
Read more at: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
Sorry, m1. I used it for 10 minutes and hated:
a. creepy spy crap
b. can't be skinned
c. leaks all over (security)
so, you're second banana ( ) on this one.
Which to me is actually quite odd, considering how well the 64 bit OS itself handles 32 bit applications. I dunno about Linix, but 64 bit Windows normally works quite well with 32 bit applications. I'm wondering why browsers are different in that respect.
64 bit Linux also works quite well with 32 bit applications, but not the plug-ins and drivers. A 32-bit application need 32-bit plug-ins for it and similarly a 64-bit application need 64-bit plug-ins.
I thought I'd give it a try and speedwise it's much quicker at loading pages than IE7 and Firefox. I'm not a great lover of google products and some of the horror stories I've heard and read about from Gmail users on Security issues made me very reluctant to even try it however glad I did. System resource useage seems pretty OK. With a bit more work google may have something that I might actually use apart from their great search engine
I don't trust Google, half the stuff I install tries to sneakily set my homepage to it, and install a toolbar, it's annoying and I certainly wouldn't browse with it
IE may suck.. but better the devil you know
Me either... I point blank refuse to have Google crap on my PC and refuse to use their search engine. I don't give a toss what anyone says, Google is EVIL and seeks purely to profit from everyone's information, which most often is gathered covertly and via dubious methods: IE, google analytics, which gathers data on peoples online activities/site visits without consent.
To me, Google is as invasive as CCTV cameras in toilets... getting your tonsils removed through your armpits, so it'll be a cold day in hell before I install Google's Chrome on any PC in this household.
Uh, oh... that black van with the darkened windows and a G on the doors is outside again.
Indeedy starkers, in fact, the other day, I spent mostly checking the HJT forums, looking for a way to kill the copy-book Google virus.. it's gone now, but I didn't go to any sites, I got it just searching but not clicking on anything
iam with you , i dont trust google chrome. anything that is still in beta is unstable..dont care what critics say. the most stable would be FF and opera
Sorry guys, I found this and had to post it
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wicked
Well I for one, love Chrome, and I have used Google since forever...just my 2 cents worth!!
Google Chrome is just a new born baby. So, the features Chrome has are good enough for a new browser. It's clear that Google is seriously thinking about the web browser. So, we can expect in near future Chrome would include all the options and features it's missing right now. I would not be surprised, if I found Chrome as the no. 1 browser in near future.
I've got mixed feelings on this. As somebody who does a bit of web development, it is nice to see how many visitors you're getting, what browsers they're using so you know what to design for, etc.
I've known some Web devs, but the last time I got to look over that their working shoulders was when the fresh grads in our shop were telling everyone that Yahoo was over and showing us the Google search page. It's the third-party part of the data collection that really rubs me the wrong way--smells like a potential online privacy analog to 'mortgage-backed securities.'
My real complaint is with myself because I want to stop 'Googling' but there just doesn't seem to be a search engine anywhere nearly as good. That new Google ex-pat project (weird name I can't remember) seems like Live Search, but even more pushy in its 'helpfulness.' I'd consider going back to Yahoo, but the stupidly busy page is just too annoying. Frakkin' real world, always forcing a fella to make comprises between high-falutin' values and base appetites...
Well, if you're really bored, you can always waste time dropping random searches into Ms. Dewey. Just as evil, but far more distracting - {G}
Jonnan
For work I use IE8 (still beta) -- much faster than IE7, but not as fast as Opera.
Yahoo search does me just fine... I trust Yahoo a little more than I do Google... but not as far as I could throw 'em.
I take it you've never tried to modify your search string to clarify what you're looking for more than once a minute. (I don't remember exactly what Yahoo's timeout is, but it's far too low. And then they lock me out of the system for 999 seconds. What's up with THAT?)
Nah... I just key in what I'm looking for and go with the flow. Most Often I find it, but I'm never tempted to go over to Google if I don't.
*Edit* Just curious... your nick wouldn't be cos you're an aspiriring Presidential shoe thrower, by any chance???
Puh-lease.
I'd need a time machine for that-I've had this nick for quite some time before the event in question.
Hehe... I sorta figured that, but it just tied in with the recent event nicely. And a time machine would come in quite handy... to traval back and witness the fun first-hand.
Heh - if I was going to do seven years for assaulting George Bush with a shoe, I have another place in mind for where to put my shoe.
[obligatory joke about how we've already done eight years]
for me it depends upon your common sense if that viruses had invaded your security. what i like most for google chrome is its speed. i've challenged my friends for a speed test, they used firefox and i used chrome. y'all know the results aren't you. but my little problem in chrome is the javascript. for example, i opened a website which contains a layout which seems to ba a javascript layout, some of its details dosen't come out. is there any solutions regarding on this matter. that why im just forced to use firefox instead of it.
huhuhu~_~
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