Google Chrome

Eleandor · Sep 2, 2008

Testing google chrome at the moment... It's a free website browser such as IE or Firefox.

It's said to load webpages fast, and damn, it's true!
The personalised homepage is pretty cool too, so I'm actually a fan already

Check it out!

Squiggy · Sep 2, 2008

The gui sucks.
I stay with FF

Eleandor · Sep 3, 2008

I personally love the GUI. Simple and effective. I don't need the fancy stuff... I mean, has anyone ever used the options under "file" or "edit" without just using keyboard shortcuts?

The more I use it, the more I'm fan of it

Pyritie · Sep 3, 2008

It has a few things here and there that I don't like.

For the most part though, I love it <3

Squiggy · Sep 3, 2008

Anyways i need the addons for firefox like Flagfox, Adblock plus, script blocking etc.. they are just neat

Skudgemuffin · Sep 4, 2008

I just downloaded it. The pages do load noticeably faster. Simplicity ftw.

Eleandor · Sep 5, 2008

Squiggy said:
Anyways i need the addons for firefox like script blocking etc.. they are just neat

That's totally obsolete now because they sandbox each tab separately. And I haven't encountered any ads yet... Maybe it's the sites I visit, but I haven't

Squiggy · Sep 5, 2008

i rather mean those layer-ads.. you could be right with your 'i-see-no-ads'-theory though i visit some *cough* sites..

Maedh · Sep 8, 2008

Are u ppl kidding me? Pages load slower on chrome if u have a faster machine, if u have a slower machine they will load slower (compared to fire fox). But the reason I use Chrome is that it uses less memory then FF, and it starts up faster then FF for me. So I dont mind a page loading 1 second slower then FF, for faster start up and less memory usage.

HappyTauren · Sep 8, 2008

luws it

Steel_Stallion · Sep 9, 2008

Did some one in here mention Google disabling ads...

Are you as dumb as fuck or what?

Maedh · Sep 9, 2008

Steel_Stallion said:
Did some one in here mention Google disabling ads...

Are you as dumb as fuck or what?

UUm he was talking about the ff add ons if im not mistaken.

Razorbrain · Sep 9, 2008

my pages arent loading that much faster. I dont even see a difference

i love the first page thingy, but i have had trouble posting at certain forums

anderf · Sep 10, 2008

I'm confused about the loading faster thingy. To me, Firefox loads noticeably faster than Chrome, which is why I only used it for a day. But maybe I'm doing it wrong.

TheDivineBoss · Sep 10, 2008

Do you know how many bugs, glitches and leaks are in Chrome?

1200 and counting -_-

Pyritie · Sep 10, 2008

But at least google fixes things.

Hakeem · Sep 13, 2008

Another fancy new browser?

I don't care about page load time or memory usage, what matters is raw features and the GUI. From screenshots, the GUI does not look impressive, and age makes it's features lacking.

I'll stick with SeaMonkey, since I can mod it.

Slivar · Sep 13, 2008

umm why is it using almost 4 times the amount of memory as firefox does..........

HappyTauren · Sep 13, 2008

Because each tab is process for its own. If one tab starts lagging, others will not.

Maedh · Sep 15, 2008

^Which is sick, since you can still use your other tabs if one gets fucked.

Anachron · Oct 3, 2008

Don't use Google Chrome the national group of information protection has warned to NOT use Chrome for now.

Pyritie · Oct 4, 2008

Anachron said:
Don't use Google Chrome the national group of information protection has warned to NOT use Chrome for now.

You mean the thing about their EULA? Yeah, they removed that.

StarDrifte · Oct 4, 2008

I wouldn't use Chrome for normal use. I did do some testing but I don't like the fact I can't put addons. In firefox I have MyWot and Noscript which are really good for computer security. IE generally sucks in security and I do find it noticeably slower

Eleandor · Oct 4, 2008

Actually, I only use chrome for normal use. For normal webpages like the hive it gives me a speed increase of 100 to 200 %. Really. But flash plugin support isn't really good so I go to firefox for youtube and stuff

Anachron · Oct 5, 2008

Never use Chrome, it sucks and brings Google to even more control over internet activity.

Skudgemuffin · Oct 5, 2008

I opened Chrome one day and I got the blue screen of death D: Back to Firefox.

HappyTauren · Oct 5, 2008

no u. Well chrome serves me well.

Pyritie · Oct 5, 2008

I'm using chrome all the time and I love it. So much faster <3

Although I occasionally get the odd bug, but seeing as how new it is...

icecream_pirate · Oct 6, 2008

As my computer is unnaturally slow either way, i use firefox for videos and other random things and i use chrome for hive workshop and bethesda.(it has my pass saved.) Chrome also tends to freeze up for me every now and then.

Anachron · Oct 6, 2008

Chrome carries every Data of your PC when it crashes, open documents, running programs, even the username and things like that.

Avex · Oct 7, 2008

Skudgemuffin said:
I opened Chrome one day and I got the blue screen of death D: Back to Firefox.

Just got the same thing twice, back to FF.

Anachron · Oct 8, 2008

My Firefox beats Chrome in 2x faster way lol

NoobinJass · Oct 8, 2008

Firefox is the Best (at least for now)!

The Chrome is Beta do not use it after the google created the first version that not beta.

HappyTauren · Oct 8, 2008

Anachron said:
My Firefox beats Chrome in 2x faster way lol

it means you are Doingitwrong.

Anachron · Oct 8, 2008

Surely not, I have chrome portable and with just chrome (20mb) you load a side in less then 0,5 seconds. My FF needs about 0,2 sec to fully load a side. That is ownage.

HappyTauren · Oct 8, 2008

Well, then you keep loading SIDES.

Eleandor · Oct 8, 2008

Anachron said:
Surely not, I have chrome portable and with just chrome (20mb) you load a side in less then 0,5 seconds. My FF needs about 0,2 sec to fully load a side. That is ownage.

That's stupid. Portable programs usually run 10x slower than their non-portable variant. If you really want to compare the 2 on loading speeds, be fair and compare the NON portable chrome with FF. I seriously hope you're never gonna design benchmarks in your life. In any way, chrome still IS the faster website loader, unless you're doing something terribly wrong. The only downside I have discovered is the poor flash support, but on the area of speed you must be a computer noob if chrome works slower.

Anachron · Oct 8, 2008

Eleandor said:
That's stupid. Portable programs usually run 10x slower than their non-portable variant. If you really want to compare the 2 on loading speeds, be fair and compare the NON portable chrome with FF. I seriously hope you're never gonna design benchmarks in your life. In any way, chrome still IS the faster website loader, unless you're doing something terribly wrong. The only downside I have discovered is the poor flash support, but on the area of speed you must be a computer noob if chrome works slower.

I will NEVER install Chrome, its the worlds worsest browser ever.

And the sides are loaded so fast that I don't care if chrome is a bit faster or not. FF is better because of addons, userability, even while it isn't google software.

Gilles · Oct 8, 2008

Google Chrome scrolls too fast.

Anachron · Oct 8, 2008

Chrome is garbage.

Maedh · Oct 8, 2008

Chrome isnt garbage. If it is, why would people spend the time to BETA test it?

Chrome is garbage.

BTW your lucky some moderators dont delete posts they dont find interesting, or that post would be gone.

DrazharLn · Oct 8, 2008

Chrome is not garbage. If you're upset by the EULA then take the code and compile your own damn browser or use FF or Opera. Chrome is a fairly good browser, it's quite fast, discrete and lightweight, that's all. It's not genuinely revolutionary, but IMHO is ok.

Gilles · Oct 8, 2008

Anachron said:
Chrome is garbage.

It's in Beta, the problems will be solved, and it's faster than FF so I don't see how it's garbage.

And it is somewhat revolutionary, for example it has a multi-process architecture allowing more to run without eating up as much memory. Also when one tab crashes, the others won't from what I've heard (haven't had it happen yet).

Anachron · Oct 8, 2008

We'll see what Chrome will do next.. If no addon support will be there, I can't think of Chrome beats FF.

DrazharLn · Oct 9, 2008

Gilles said:
It's in Beta, the problems will be solved, and it's faster than FF so I don't see how it's garbage.

And it is somewhat revolutionary, for example it has a multi-process architecture allowing more to run without eating up as much memory. Also when one tab crashes, the others won't from what I've heard (haven't had it happen yet).

I have had single tab crashes and full browser crashes on chrome. I don't know what the whole browser crashes were from, but the single tab crashes were from java or flash, I think.

Anachron · Oct 9, 2008

Yes chrome has flash & java problems, that might be the problem.

Eleandor · Oct 9, 2008

I think the current chrome problems are cpu management. I think that chrome tries to act like an OS on the area of memory and cpu demands. Every thread (tab) in chrome will constantly ask for cpu time, but flash and java applications will too. Since they're not really integrated into chrome itself but are stand-alone plug-ins, I guess chrome sometimes "crashes" because it fails to manage cpu-time correctly because it can only control its own tabs and not the plug-ins. If those applications become more chrome friendly, and I'm sure they will, those things might be fixed.

DrazharLn · Oct 11, 2008

Chrome seems to have been updated when I wasn't looking, now flash movies actually work. Maybe it's just my computer though.

Anachron · Oct 11, 2008

Chrome is still not my fav

Master Replicator · Oct 13, 2008

I know this has nothing to do with gaming but...

I didnt know where else to put it. Anyone download google chrome?? its so much better than IE and Firefox!

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