Google Chrome

bazza
 November 02, 2008, 11:24 PM posted in General Discussion

Anyone else tried Google Chrome yet?

I think it's pretty impressive. No ability for addons yet though but apparently that will be added later. 

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tvan
 November 02, 2008, 11:30 PM

Bazza, I use it on my(Windows) laptop and like it's clean interface.  I wasn't sure about the combo address/search box but, having used it, I like it.  Also, Explorer doesn't seem to work that well with Google Apps... wonder why.

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bazza
 November 03, 2008, 11:44 AM

I'm hoping for a iphone version, but I doubt Apple will approve it for the app store.

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tvan
 November 03, 2008, 01:29 PM

You might have a bit of a wait.  They haven't even released it for Mac yet.

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goulnik
 November 03, 2008, 04:42 PM

I like it, slower to load but generally faster to run JavaScript, which I make heavy use of.

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kesirui
 December 09, 2008, 09:40 AM

I love it! really good design and a lot faster, I also love the combined search/address bar, its makes everything a lot smoother. I like Firefox too but after trying chrome I don't think I'll use firefox as much. The only thing I noticed was that Chrome is slower to download things (such as podcasts from Cpod)

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matthiask
 December 17, 2008, 02:39 PM

well, lots of its ideas are taken from opera.

Biggest drawback is the lack of Adblocking, which makes sense for a company like Google ;-)

Greatest idea in Chrome: putting the tabs in the title bar

Worst idea: spying on you like crazy. The german government is actually warning to use the browser.