The Google Browser

[Power Metal Dom]

I bet a friend or two this would happen. Now Google just needs to announce an OS and I get £20

/http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

Beta is here: http://www.google.com/chrome/index.html?hl=en-GB&brand=CHMG&utm_source=en-GB-hpp&utm_medium=hpp&utm_campaign=en-GB

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Like flames on fuel...upon metal I drool

[Power Metal Dom]

Holy crap, this is faster!

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Like flames on fuel...upon metal I drool

[Guest]

Has anyone tried Chrome? What is it like compared to firefox 3?

[d_24]

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Before Bauer...There Was House

[munchingfoo]

Firefox can load the BBC news front page in the same time it takes this Google browser to load only the text for that page.

I do like the spell checker. It's rapid, and very neat. (Even if it doesn't think that google is a word - lol)




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"The entirety of these definitions lie outside the gamut of the sRGB color space — such a pure color cannot be represented using RGB primaries. The color swatch to the right is a desaturated approximation, created by taking the centroid of the standard definition and moving it towards the D65 white point, until it meets the sRGB gamut triangle."

[munchingfoo]

I just read the "features" PAGE, and it seems the only feature that it has listed there that firefox doesn't is...

The ability to see downloads at the bottom of the browser rather than in a new window. Impressive...

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"The entirety of these definitions lie outside the gamut of the sRGB color space — such a pure color cannot be represented using RGB primaries. The color swatch to the right is a desaturated approximation, created by taking the centroid of the standard definition and moving it towards the D65 white point, until it meets the sRGB gamut triangle."

[SpecialK]

munchingfoo, you can do that in firefox by downloading an add-on.

[Tlomiew]

I like the fact that it makes more efficient use of screen space, but I havn't noticed any great speen difference compared to firefox and it seems to be far less customisable(At least for the time being).

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In this world there is a pie
A pie where topics go to die
And when they die they leave this place
The twisted world of the human race

[Power Metal Dom]

I'm not the best person to judge because FF was always pretty slow for me and I didn't use any addons except FlashBlock. I have noticed with great delight though that while FF would load an image heavy page in 10 seconds max, Chrome seems to manage it in 3. Also, lol @ the powerthirst reference

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[Haunted]

Just installed it. It's great. Doesn't suck away all my memory like firefox did.

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[munchingfoo]

Well - if you look at the process menu (Vista) you will see that each new tab is a new process. This might be good I guess. In firefox it's usually one tab that goes crazy with memory and processes so atleast this way, if it happens in crome, you can quit one tab rather than the whole lot.

On the whole, it uses slightly more memory than a fresh firefox application on the same pages, but seems to be more stable over a longer period of time.

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"The entirety of these definitions lie outside the gamut of the sRGB color space — such a pure color cannot be represented using RGB primaries. The color swatch to the right is a desaturated approximation, created by taking the centroid of the standard definition and moving it towards the D65 white point, until it meets the sRGB gamut triangle."

[Haunted]

I hadn't noticed that, but I suppose it's still better. I would like to turn off the spell checker though, or at least be able to add words to it.

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[househunter]

Quoting Haunted from 16:18, 3rd Sep 2008
Just installed it. It's great. Doesn't suck away all my memory like firefox did.

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You must be on Firefox 2. I saw some tests that showed that Firefox 3 has a lower memory footprint than Chrome. It's something they worked on for the latest release.

FIREFOX FTW

[Delts]

So far, chrome is pretty slick. Speed wise it seems to be up there, quite possibly top. Do I like it though, not overly. I dislike the grouping of tabs. If I open a new one it's intuitive for it to be the furthest away one.

The ui also seems to be a tad simple. I wonder how good it will be when people need to start sorting problems with it.

Over all, I am impressed, but it seems a bit too dumbed down.

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Yes, this bit is not meant to be taken seriously. BOOBS!

[d_24]

You say dumbed down, I say lightweight.

I like it's un-clunkiness. The clean and stupidly simple look is very Google but it's responsive and does what I tell it to with startling efficiency unlike other browsers I've used. I don't like a few missing pieces, like the tab one you mentioned, but they're easy to overlook or adjust to.

I was never one to overly customise with pointless addon x, y and z. If you're the MySpace/Facebook application type then get FireFox (and also punch yourself in the face). Chrome doesn't rule out additions though, the full version comes with Gears which is very developer friendly.

I'd recommend Chrome to people who just want something that will open a webpage for them fast. If you want more than that, the full version will probably have what you want but until then use Firefox.

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[Haunted]

Quoting househunter from 21:16, 3rd Sep 2008
You must be on Firefox 2. I saw some tests that showed that Firefox 3 has a lower memory footprint than Chrome. It's something they worked on for the latest release.

FIREFOX FTW

I read that too, Firefox 3 took up as much memory on this machine as firefox 2. Go figure.

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[Mehmsy]

Basically once Chrome gets extensions, I'm switching. Firefox's add-ons are the only things keeping me using it.

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[househunter]

Does it pass the Acid tests?

[Darkwind]

Quoting househunter from 21:13, 4th Sep 2008
Does it pass the Acid tests?

Seeing as it is using the Webkit rendering engine (basically the same as the one used in Safari) yes, it does.
Full pass in Acid2 but 79/100 in Acid3
(vs Firefox 3 with 71/100)

My main problem is there is no Linux version yet.

[KayBee]

Quoting Darkwind from 22:16, 4th Sep 2008
My main problem is there is no Linux version yet.

Same here - hoping it won't be too long though.