Google Chrome
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Google Chrome even faster?
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/put-pedal-to-metal-with-faster-google.html
fullscreen, remove thumbnails from home, form autofill
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/put-pedal-to-metal-with-faster-google.html
fullscreen, remove thumbnails from home, form autofill
As in, other sites having flash opened beforehand will launch the SWF plugin, where launching GMail will crash the whole browser.
That's a Win7 7000+ problem it seems.
Weird. Never experienced that, but I always keep gmail open in its own tab.
I'm having stability issues with Chrome and Shockwave Flash (in Gmail.)
Looks like the honeymoon is officially over.
How about now? The 2.0 update just released, just installed it.
I just bought a macbook and I already miss Chrome. I hope the mac version doesn't take much longer.
Safari 4 seems pretty good though. Maybe it's just adjustment, but for some reason I want to be using Chrome instead. Perhaps google has brainwashed me?
The most annoying thing in Safari was it took me a while to figure out I had to hold the apple key, or whatever the hell it's called, before clicking on a link to get it to open in a tab rather than a new window.
Safari 4 seems pretty good though. Maybe it's just adjustment, but for some reason I want to be using Chrome instead. Perhaps google has brainwashed me?
The most annoying thing in Safari was it took me a while to figure out I had to hold the apple key, or whatever the hell it's called, before clicking on a link to get it to open in a tab rather than a new window.
If you have a multiple-button mouse (such as the stupid Mighty Mouse) you can go to the system preference panel to set the right button to map to right button. For some reason, Apple think it's better to map right button to left button (!) by default. After that, you can just use right button to do everything originally done through "holding the apple key."
I've mostly been using the trackpad on this thing, which is pretty cool. I didn't think a trackpad could be this good. The multi-touch gestures for scrolling are nice. I'll check out the mouse stuff the next time I have one hooked up.
I saw a really big add for Google Chrome near our trainstation today! I think that may be the very first time ever that I saw an advertisement for a browser outside of the WWW. 
I took some pictures with my crappy mobile that I'll paste in a little while.
I took some pictures with my crappy mobile that I'll paste in a little while.
UniversalTruth
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Google Chrome Just Passed Internet Explorer To Become The World's Most Popular Web Browser
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/goog...inessinsider+(Business+Insider)#ixzz1wAbRd6up
Hip hip, hoorey.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/goog...inessinsider+(Business+Insider)#ixzz1wAbRd6up
Hip hip, hoorey.
Still won't let you manually set the location of its browser cache without hacking the registry though.
This is the main reason I still haven't switched away from IE. Oh, and does it support full hardware page rendering acceleration yet? Only had limited support last I checked.
Nice necro, btw.
This is the main reason I still haven't switched away from IE. Oh, and does it support full hardware page rendering acceleration yet? Only had limited support last I checked.
Nice necro, btw.
I just downloaded Chrome for the very first time and I must say it's very clean and fast...impressive. I've been using IE8 for the past few years because IE9 isn't available for WinXP. I'm gonna use Chrome some more and see if it's better than IE8. I don't have a problem with the browser cache location as I never change it from the default on IE. I use HDDs no SSDs so it's not really an issue at the moment. Of course with IE8 I could browse in fullscreen or remove a bunch of toolbars if I wanted to make it clean like Chrome, it's still slower though.
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Blazkowicz
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I read that Chrome preloads some links from google results, and that this turns stats up. other stats reports take care of this so Chrome would be number two or on par with firefox.
I used chromium for about a month, and couldn't keep it because I only have 2GB memory. the "fast" and "lean" browser is very memory hungry when you wastefully load lots of tabs. I didn't try to install a flash blocker though. I'm not entirely satisfied by the UI, or don't find the preferences layout is simple ("standard options", "advanced options", and "stuff I don't remember what it's for"). it's less simple than "general", "tabs", "privacy", "security" etc.
importantly, my firefox has zooming buttons in the toolbar, too. so I'm back to firefox.
I used chromium for about a month, and couldn't keep it because I only have 2GB memory. the "fast" and "lean" browser is very memory hungry when you wastefully load lots of tabs. I didn't try to install a flash blocker though. I'm not entirely satisfied by the UI, or don't find the preferences layout is simple ("standard options", "advanced options", and "stuff I don't remember what it's for"). it's less simple than "general", "tabs", "privacy", "security" etc.
importantly, my firefox has zooming buttons in the toolbar, too. so I'm back to firefox.
You can turn this off in the preferences. I always turn off all preloading shit, I think it's pretty much pointless if you have a connection faster than a few mbit/s.
Just disabling the flash plugin should do the same thing...
Blazkowicz
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not if you want to access [strike]porn[/strike] multimedia and gaming content.
Well yes, every tab gets a separate thread and memory space, and cannot crash the other tabs when one hangs. With of course the lovely exception of Flash, as that hooks back to the same single library or something, and when that dies for some reason everything goes down with it.
You need them in the toolbar? I prefer shortcut keys for zooming, for those rare instances that I need it. Just hold control and scroll your mousewheel.
Silent_Buddha
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Interesting, IE 9 doesn't exhibit that behavior. If flash crashes a tab only that tab goes down and is recovered.
I prefer the discrete steps in the toolbar myself in IE. With my aging eyes it's nice to easily bump a page up a set amount (100-125-150 percent) if it's just a bit too small to read comfortably. If I need fine grained zooming, then as you said ctrl+mousewheel works decently enough. But for quick pre-determined zooms, toolbar controls are optimal, IMO.
That said, I've recently started trying Chrome. And I have to say it's nice that it just "works." But so many things about it annoy me even more than IE 9 (versus the superior UI of IE 8). Like, for example, I haven't found where to enable pop-up blocking in Chrome. That's probably just me, but considering it's so easy to do in IE, it's rather annoying that I haven't found it in Chrome.
As well, the crash recovery doesn't seem to work consistently. Sometimes it'll offer to reload tabs that were open prior to a crash and sometimes it won't. Meh, still not good enough to replace IE for me, despite IE 9's annoying UI. Wish I could have kept the UI from IE 8, that one was just about perfect, IMO.
There's other things about it that annoy me, but all in all, it's a nice browser alternative for people that don't want to configure anything and just want something that works.
I still use Chrome though. It's handy to use in conjunction with Sandboxie for Flash videos so that I never have to enable Flash in IE and thus open up a potential security hole.
Regards,
SB
