BAJI26 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 I just installed chrome on winxp and I must say its lightening fast... I haven't explorer anything else but man its fast. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsonwebhosting Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 I've heard some great reviews on it - haven't put it on my own computer yet, but there's quite a buzz on it. I was talking to a buddy earlier today who put it on his notebook and said it's great, except the lack of plugins available at the moment. For a product by Google, it's odd that they wouldn't have the Google toolbar on there yet - but I'm sure it was either an oversight on his part, or the tool is coming soon. Any negatives so far (other than some pages now having to be both IE, FF and now Crome compatible?) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAJI26 Posted September 4, 2008 Author Share Posted September 4, 2008 Its still in BETA, but I bet it will only get better. I viewed my site in ie 5,6,7,8 and all showed it differently, FF and Chrome shows it about the same. Its kinda like FF with a IE7 feel but faster, it imported my bookmarks automatically and has spell checker, when you focus the mouse on a text box it adds a border and you can resize the box.... like I'm typing in this box I can resize it . It uses less resources then any of the other browsers, viewing source code of a web page opens it up in what almost looked like an html editor. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAJI26 Posted September 4, 2008 Author Share Posted September 4, 2008 It has a Inspect Element: You can inspect CSS, DOM, HTML other stuffs here. Also, on the lower left corner, there’s an icon about greater than sign named Show Console. Click on this and it’s bring up a cursor. You can then type in DOM elements and nodes and stuff. Its pretty handy. It also have a task manager where you can see the resources on the web pages. Use the Task Manager to get details about a specific process running in Google Chrome, or to force a misbehaving tab or application to close. For each active item in Google Chrome, you can monitor the amount of memory taken up, the amount of CPU used, and the network activity (bytes sent and received). My site uses 17044k of memory, Whmcs uses 16688k. Just read that they are soon to develop/release a Google map plug in for it too... It has this "Incognito Mode": Browsing in incognito mode only keeps Google Chrome from storing information about the websites you've visited. The websites you visit may still have records of your visit. Any files saved to your computer will still remain on your computer. Example: If you sign into your Google Account on http://www.google.com while in incognito mode, your subsequent web searches are recorded in your Google Web History. You've gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however. You can also drag the tabs out of the present window and it makes a new window or sort the window tabs by just dragging them around which they call "Dynamic Tabs". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickendippers Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 I gave it a little whirl and it seems OK, the idea of independent tabs sounds handy. If Adblock and Mouse Gestures addons are created I might switch, but thanks to Firefox I can't surf without them now 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe123 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 well I believe millions are trying it right now , the only small things that i found are 1. it can't read the Initial Value of text fields 2. it causes a 50% cpu load with chatstat javascript code (on my website and there website as well ) . other than that looks promising , but to be honest it still far from FF and IE7 as well (my personal opinion) have anyone talked to microsoft and asked them what they think ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberhost Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 I gave it a little whirl and it seems OK, the idea of independent tabs sounds handy. If Adblock and Mouse Gestures addons are created I might switch, but thanks to Firefox I can't surf without them now I'm running about 30 addons with Firefox so it is doubtful I'll ever switch. I do believe that 3.1 will address some of the new features in Chrome. I especially like the ability to close a tab that has been hijacked, a feature already present in Opera (which also has mouse gestures and adblock). have anyone talked to microsoft and asked them what they think ? I've been testing IE8 (which is available for anyone to download) and it is quite polished for a beta IMHO. The "InPrivate" feature competes with Chrome's "Incognito", and it is possible to close hijacked tabs. All this said, I'm still a diehard Firefox user. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAJI26 Posted September 4, 2008 Author Share Posted September 4, 2008 I believe that as chrome gets developed further more options, features will become available. There are plugins in FF that will allow alot of features in Chrome but I just like the lite feeling it gives and the speed of it... It doesn't handles RSS Feeds good though but I'm waiting for it to compete with FF, I think IE sucks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberhost Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 I believe that as chrome gets developed further more options, features will become available. I wouldn't hope for complete compatibility with Firefox extensions, if that is what you're driving at. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetworkOfHosting.com Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Any negatives so far (other than some pages now having to be both IE, FF and now Crome compatible?) Been using chrome since it hit. And like most everyone says, it's really fast and smooth. I've had some weird graphic things happen on sites while using IE8 (like corrupt text boxes), but absolutely no aberrations. And yes, resizing the text box is cool. Here's something that happened to me, however: I had 3 different incognito windows open, each with about 10+ tabs. Something went wrong in one of the windows/tabs and it started chewing up processor and memory. I could get no response from the window as the pointer displayed an hour glass. Every other non-chrome window on the notebook was fine, so I decided to go to task manager and kill just the chrome process that was having a problem. I thought it would kill just that tab, or at the most only that chrome window. But all 3 chrome windows disappeared. And because I was incognito all tabs were lost... Don't know if there was any other way out of that one, but I've fired it up again and I'm back up to two windows with a bunch of tabs. 2% cpu load with 29 other windows active, plus roboform, truecrypt, and vpnforfree.com service running. Unheard of on this pc running other browsers... NOH 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAJI26 Posted September 4, 2008 Author Share Posted September 4, 2008 I wouldn't hope for complete compatibility with Firefox extensions, if that is what you're driving at. I was saying that with FF and FF plugins you can have some of the functions that chrome has. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberhost Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 I was saying that with FF and FF plugins you can have some of the functions that chrome has. Ah, yes, very true. Thanks for the clarification. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe123 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Now this will give you a Good Laugh , just look at the screenshoot and what's at the bottom . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetworkOfHosting.com Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Now this will give you a Good Laugh , just look at the screenshoot and what's at the bottom . Ha! Well, at least they don't seem like "haters" over there... From the visual tour I've seen of the Google work environment, they have absolutely no reason not to spread love. I'd pay to work (play!) there. NOH 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apollo1 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Been using chrome since it hit. And like most everyone says, it's really fast and smooth. I've had some weird graphic things happen on sites while using IE8 (like corrupt text boxes), but absolutely no aberrations. And yes, resizing the text box is cool. Here's something that happened to me, however: I had 3 different incognito windows open, each with about 10+ tabs. Something went wrong in one of the windows/tabs and it started chewing up processor and memory. I could get no response from the window as the pointer displayed an hour glass. Every other non-chrome window on the notebook was fine, so I decided to go to task manager and kill just the chrome process that was having a problem. I thought it would kill just that tab, or at the most only that chrome window. But all 3 chrome windows disappeared. And because I was incognito all tabs were lost... Don't know if there was any other way out of that one, but I've fired it up again and I'm back up to two windows with a bunch of tabs. 2% cpu load with 29 other windows active, plus roboform, truecrypt, and vpnforfree.com service running. Unheard of on this pc running other browsers... NOH Thanks for the info, so does Roboform support Chrome already? I'm using FF3 and I do find it lightning fast as well, but I may try out Chrome if it works with Roboform. As far as all the add-ons and maturity of FF, you just can't beat it. Beat it, beat it, No One Wants To Be Defeated.. lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAJI26 Posted September 5, 2008 Author Share Posted September 5, 2008 No not that I know of yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 No Robo form .. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Host.com Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Its very good, but it is a little buggy still, it crashes for no reason on my ThinkPad here, but I would definately recommend it. I just wish it had google toolbar and other extentions! Grr! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetworkOfHosting.com Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 So, Chrome has been running for 2 days (since 09-04-08, 05:32 PM) with no crash. A few of the Website Tabs are graphic intensive. Running 29 Tabs across 3 Chrome incognito Windows and 39 non-chrome Windows, TheBat! email, True Crypt, Roboform (I always have roboform running), vpn service, and the installation of Xara3D waiting for me to click the Finish button. Now pulling an average of 40% CPU of this Sony VAIO with 1GB Ram. 15 of these Windows are Windows Explorer. It looks like Chrome is holding stable. NOH 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 fyi http://reddevnews.com/news/print.aspx?editorialsid=10170 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetworkOfHosting.com Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 fyi http://reddevnews.com/news/print.aspx?editorialsid=10170 As quoted: "In the post, Google said users can stay safe by "keeping each tab in an isolated sandbox to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites."" I believe it was the denial of service exploit that froze up the entire browser for me. Thanks for the link 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrat Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 There is a very useful Task Manager in the Settings/Developer area that shows detailed resource usage for every site and management is much the same as in Windows Task Manager. It is very informative to watch resource usage in real time. The sandbox is actually automatic as far as I can gather in that Chrome is primarily designed to reflect the growing trend in browser usage to run apps so each is run incommunicado with any other app running at the same time and also with dedicated resource allocations. That means that if one app goes pear shaped and crashes only that tab is affected and none of the others are. The only bug I've found so far, which may not even be one anyway, is that Chrome will not run most Facebook apps. I don't know about the technology that is involved but it is certainly incompatible. So who's worth backing here? Facebook or Google? EDIT Just realised everything I just said has already been said and more besides. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baja Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 I won't be switching anytime soon, seems a bit well, "chromeless" compared to FF and all of its addons. It will take at least the firebug addon to get me to even consider it. Though, I do wonder if all that support they threw at Mozilla will come back to them some how. Or maybe thats what we are seeing now with this launch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetworkOfHosting.com Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 ...seems a bit well, "chromeless"... lol ! Yeah. I'm just testing it for it's speed and potential. And perhaps it IS sending something useful (and not deadly to me) back to google. NOH 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetworkOfHosting.com Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Speaking of "about:memory" Here are some more about:stats about:network about:internets about:histograms about:dns about:cache about:plugins about:version Update: Mawin adds that you can also go to two special pages on a per-site basis. view-cache: shows you some under-the-hood cache details, and view-cache: shows you the page's markup. (Though you can view source by just right-clicking on a page and choosing, um, "View page source.") NOH 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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