Googles new Chrome Browser

[evilfantasy]

It is pretty basic but surely that will change in the future and has all of the basics now, popup blocker, phishing and malware protection, cookie handling, password manager....

As many Google services as I use now if it get's near what Firefox is now then I will be switching. But not yet...

Google Chrome - Download a new browser

[MJM]

When was this released? I heard of the leaked tour, but seems sudden?

Bad:
Another browser? The market is saturated with two good ones (Opera, Fx) and a heap of crap (Safari, IE, etc)
No built in ad block / image block it seems
Text zoom only - Opera's is much better
Options are very limited - no customisation seems to be available
I don't like the look.
Tab behaviour sucks. I love the way Opera does it.
No keyboard shortcut alteration. Ctrl+t is just wrong in so many ways.

Good:
Looks like there's a browser that now has a larger visible browsing area than Opera.
Incognito is a brilliant idea.
The bar seems to be very similar to Fx's bar.
The task manager is nice - in fact most of the dev tools seem to be nice and working well enough.

Neutral:
Desktop shortcuts - I can already do that though this seems to use the favicon as the desktop icon, it's nice, but meh. Also it removes the tab and seperates it from the window for no reason.
Task manager and killing tabs is nice, but you end up with a shitload of chrome.exe processes.
Overall seems very similar to Fx, but they have been working in tandem a bit.

I'd test out middle click behaviour, but I have no mouse.

[evilfantasy]

It's fast. They seem to have so far incorporated some of IE and FF. I haven't found a way to view my Google bookmarks from the toolbar.

Haven't played with it too much. Good start, but a long way to go.

[Carbon]

It's being unofficially termed "Google Forkbomb" for the way it manages tabs and memory.

[evilfantasy]

lol. I wondered how long it would be before it was being ripped apart and every little flaw (things people don't like) were announced. It took Mozilla years to get to where we are now with it so it will probably be a long time before Chrome gets even close to a final release.

[philthomas]

It is fast though

[MJM]

I've been using it quite a bit now and one thing that is extremely annoying beyond belief is that if you close the last tab the whole browser closes, it's not what I want and it's not what I expect.
I don't really like the way they are advertising it for "web 2.0" which is mostly smart JavaScript, something browsers support just fine.
I guess it's fast because it is using so much memory? I don't know, but yesterday it loaded the flash plugin two times for whichever reason.

[serverguy]

I'm really liking it. On my EeePC laptop it is perfect and super fast, even with minimal memory.

+ Rep for Google.

[MJM]

I love it on my sister's laptop, but on mine (a slow piece of crap) it runs horribly. Though the separate management of tabs is nice since it saves me from having the whole thing crash.

[Damse]

I don't see it replacing Firefox 3.0 anytime soon.

[mctw]

its good. simple look, uncluttered, and well fast
but still not switch from firefox 3.0 just yet,
mozilla sure have a proper contender now!

[evilfantasy]

There are some serious security issues being unveiled. Might not want to use it for anything more than surfing right now...

[Sim]

I downloaded it and must say it's faster than IE, Firefox.

I am using firefox now. It will be interesting to see where this new Google browser goes in the next few years.