Has anyone tried out Google Chrome yet?

I tried it on my Windows Laptop then deleted it . I see no compelling reason to use it

I know its beta , but blurrk..

On my Lappie I could scroll down a page but the silly thing would not scroll up a page.

The GUI looked washed out.

To me IE7 , Firefox and Safari are light years ahead

right off the bat, I like the live search of the url you type in, so you don't even need to have it in history to have it come up without typing the whole url.

I thought the logo looked familiar.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10031630-1.html?tag=mncol;title

My goodness its uncanny

I wonder if that is where they got the idea for the logo

fleurya said:

right off the bat, I like the live search of the url you type in, so you don't even need to have it in history to have it come up without typing the whole url.

I thought the logo looked familiar.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10031630-1.html?tag=mncol;title

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Downloaded it today and being a simple person did not expect to much but does this browser fly !!

For some unknown reason FF3 has recently slowed down with me and switched over to safari which was much quicker, but miss my personal toolbars (not available with Safari) Tried GC and as of yet have not experienced a faster browser and just hope that they have one for mac soon.

Just two things to remember though, it is still in beta (so will probably improve dramatically, add ons, toolbars etc) but the downside is that Google do seem to keep their new applications an awful long time in beta

Everyone is aware that it records keystrokes and sends them even before you hit enter, right?

baggss said:

Meh. I just downloaded it. It's fast bit it's not tripping my trigger yet. I don't like the lack of a task bar at the top of the Window and it doesn't seem to want to import all of my Bookmarks either from IE6 or FF2. It's also failing to adhere to my Windows theme and the default theme leaves something to be desired.

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I am with Baggss so far on Chrome. Meh for me also. It's ok but I will reserve my judgment for when the OSX and Linux version come out.

Have they even said they will issue a Linux version? Mac certainly. But based on their public statements hoping Firefox sticks around and winds up using some of their features, my thought is that Google will not develop a Linux version but will leave that to Mozilla. Just wondering.

And, I have also noticed FF slowing down recently - I wonder if that's because Google is loading up sites that link to Google via Adwords or Adsense, with code or tags that only its browser can read quickly. Although things did speed up for me in FF when installed the flash blocking add-on.

Cheers

SammySlim said:

Have they even said they will issue a Linux version? Mac certainly. But based on their public statements hoping Firefox sticks around and winds up using some of their features, my thought is that Google will not develop a Linux version but will leave that to Mozilla. Just wondering.

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http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-priorities.html

Many thanks for the link - question answered!

Cheers

PapaNoHair said:

Everyone is aware that it records keystrokes and sends them even before you hit enter, right?

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Big brother anyone? So in theory using this google could track your entire session on chrome. And everything you did and everywhere you went. I wonder if the law is up to scratch on this kind of thing to keep people's data safe and fraud free.