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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => General Discussions => Topic started by: MattGSX on October 14, 2008, 05:51:59 PM
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For anyone living under a rock, Google has released a web browser (http://www.google.com/chrome). What are your thoughts?
I can't say I'm incredibly impressed. It's relatively lightweight, and it leaves open a lot of screen real estate for web pages, but... I dunno. I'm just not sold on it.
Anyone else?
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This post made me finally go try it out. I like it. But I'm unlikely to switch from Firefox, even though it seems a little faster. Why bother when I'm used to Firefox and all Chrome is likely to do is end up taking away some functionality that I like.
Anything that takes away a little more from IE makes me happy though.
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I feel the same way about it.
However, I have dual monitors at work and find it nice to have a second browser defaulted to the other monitor so I can easily open a browser in another window. I have chrome set to not remember any history and clear everything on exit, while firefox remembers everything that I do work related so I can go back and reference it. Kind of nice. But, other than that, the simplicity of it is kind of it's downfall. I don't like simplicity.
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The reason I keep coming back to Firefox is its Add-ons. Both Opera and Chrome are nice browsers, but neither has good alternatives to all my Add-ons.
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For anyone living under a rock, Google has released a web browser (http://www.google.com/chrome). What are your thoughts?
Is Chrome exclusively for people that dwell under rocks, or can others use it too?
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I miss my bar of important links from Firefox. Chrome doesn't appear to have a way to set up a bar of links. I don't use any Firefox addons regularly, but occasionally I'll turn on the Stumbleupon bar when I'm bored.
Firefox came out with a new beta (today, I think) where they've got a cool 3-D thing of the pages you're on. I don't know what good it does since I haven't tried it out, but it looks neat. Also, version 3 is supposed to have "porn mode" too, just like Chrome.
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There's a porn mode? Fucking great! That's going to save me a few trips around the internet on those long, lonely, cold nights.
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i'm not sure how you're supposed to impress anyone with an open source browser that's not available for linux.
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My big complaint with Chrome is the speed. If you've chopped off all the "bulky" aspects of Firefox and Opera, then your browser should run SIGNIFICANTLY faster than the two; instead, Mozilla Seamonkey still outperforms the shit out of Chrome for me, and Seamonkey also loads a code editor and several legacy Mozilla plugins that didn't find their way into Firefox.
Chrome, to me, looks like a junior or senior-year software design student's attempt at maximizing screen space without sacrificing browser functionality. The only real advantage it has over other non-minimalist browsers is full CSS support (which Dillo and Seamonkey [sometimes] lacks), as well as Flash and other multimedia plugins (which can sometimes be a chore for Firefox). The lack of Linux support is killing it, though.
I've heard of a beta linux binary developed for Debian systems, but since the only Debian-based system I run is my work computer, and since I haven't had the chance to do anything BUT work while at work, I haven't had a chance to verify this claim. Since Mozilla is raising a huge stink about people using the trademarked names Firefox and Thunderbird without users explicitly agreeing to Mozilla TOS's (which is why we have apps like Iceweasel), I could see Google stealing a good deal of market share by making Chrome available freely to Linux systems. All they need to do is make it based on GTK libraries (which shouldn't affect the appearance), and they'll have a real contender in the *nix market.
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Does Chrome have active spell check?
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Does Chrome have active spell check?
Yep, it does.
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i'm not sure how you're supposed to impress anyone with an open source browser that's not available for linux.
yeah and knowing Google after time it will be filled up with ads.
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My complaint is that it's way too barebones. There's just not enough functions for my taste. It runs faster on both computers I've run it on but it just doesn't do near as much as firefox and opera. I think that it'll be a viable browser once they start adding decent features. The start page with the links similar to Opera's speed dial is a good start but until it does more I just can't see making it my go to browser.
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I tried Chrome and I liked it until I looked at my processes to see how much memory it was using. Every tab I had open created another instance of Chrome, each using like 10-15 megs of ram, and I always have a lot of tabs open, so this thing ended up using like 5 times more memory than Firefox. And then I read the EULA and uninstalled the shit out of it.
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I tried Chrome and I liked it until I looked at my processes to see how much memory it was using. Every tab I had open created another instance of Chrome, each using like 10-15 megs of ram, and I always have a lot of tabs open, so this thing ended up using like 5 times more memory than Firefox. And then I read the EULA and uninstalled the shit out of it.
HAHAHAHAHAAAAA :D
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I tried Chrome and I liked it until I looked at my processes to see how much memory it was using. Every tab I had open created another instance of Chrome, each using like 10-15 megs of ram, and I always have a lot of tabs open, so this thing ended up using like 5 times more memory than Firefox. And then I read the EULA and uninstalled the shit out of it.
huh. That sucks. That sounds like an idiot coding mistake, and since multi-tabbed browsers have been around for quite some time, you'd think an error like that would have already been worked out.
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i laughed at that again today, that post was awesome z3wb.
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I tried Chrome and I liked it until I looked at my processes to see how much memory it was using. Every tab I had open created another instance of Chrome, each using like 10-15 megs of ram, and I always have a lot of tabs open, so this thing ended up using like 5 times more memory than Firefox. And then I read the EULA and uninstalled the shit out of it.
huh. That sucks. That sounds like an idiot coding mistake, and since multi-tabbed browsers have been around for quite some time, you'd think an error like that would have already been worked out.
It's not an error. I can't find the article (mainly because I didn't look) but Google said that it wanted each new tab to be a separate process instead of a separate thread mostly because computers today will be able to handle it. Kinda like how back a long time ago, porn could only be found in the form of .GIF images, but nowadays we can download feature-length films! The times, they are a changing.
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I tried Chrome and I liked it until I looked at my processes to see how much memory it was using. Every tab I had open created another instance of Chrome, each using like 10-15 megs of ram, and I always have a lot of tabs open, so this thing ended up using like 5 times more memory than Firefox. And then I read the EULA and uninstalled the shit out of it.
huh. That sucks. That sounds like an idiot coding mistake, and since multi-tabbed browsers have been around for quite some time, you'd think an error like that would have already been worked out.
It's not an error. I can't find the article (mainly because I didn't look) but Google said that it wanted each new tab to be a separate process instead of a separate thread mostly because computers today will be able to handle it. Kinda like how back a long time ago, porn could only be found in the form of .GIF images, but nowadays we can download feature-length films! The times, they are a changing.
Not changing fast enough for me. Still waiting for holodeck porn.
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This post made me finally go try it out. I like it. But I'm unlikely to switch from Firefox, even though it seems a little faster. Why bother when I'm used to Firefox and all Chrome is likely to do is end up taking away some functionality that I like.
Anything that takes away a little more from IE makes me happy though.
I'm gonna go with this.
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This post made me finally go try it out. I like it. But I'm unlikely to switch from Firefox, even though it seems a little faster. Why bother when I'm used to Firefox and all Chrome is likely to do is end up taking away some functionality that I like.
Anything that takes away a little more from IE makes me happy though.
I'm gonna go with this.
ell-OH-ell me 2
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/tr4c3/Futurama_Fry_Looking_Squint2.jpg)
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what a piece of piss google chrome turned out to be.
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(http://valleywag.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/09/ChromeIcon.jpg)
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what a piece of piss google chrome turned out to be.
It sure wowed everybody for a couple of days, then was promptly forgotten.
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what a piece of piss google chrome turned out to be.
It sure wowed everybody for a couple of days, then was promptly forgotten.
Isn't it still in beta testing? Be damned if I google'd it to read up on it.
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Isn't it still in beta testing? Be damned if I google'd it to read up on it.
Everything Google ever does is in beta forever.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/chrome_firefox
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/chrome_firefox
We went everywhere together. Sometimes I'd have 20 or 30 tabs open at once.
wow that's a lot of PIDs. heh.
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I've been liking Opera a lot more since teh forumz started working with it.
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Opera is the best browser ever.
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Opera is the best browser ever.
I concur.
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I agree thrice over.
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Using a google browser to search google and check my gmail gives me all kinds of creepies.