Google Chrome (Beta)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I've been playing with this thing here at work for a few hours. A few observations from this morning's use of Chrome:

• Cannot get the editor box to show up here, only the source code tab in the "Reply" window.
• Installing firefox addons or addon updates while Chrome is running = BAD. Causes the install/update to generate strange errors intermittently. WTF is Chrome doing to my firefox install?
• Middle-clicking links does open in new tabs but I can't get those new tabs to open in the foreground.
• No tab preferences options in Chrome that I can find.
• No way to disable javascripts that I deem suspicious or whitelist only the ones I know are valid.
• No ALT+shortcut menu options like nearly every other common Windows app.
• Google analytics javascript buried in every single image on every page on every site.
• Chrome ALT+mousewheel dynamic resize only affects text, where all other browsers resize images, too.
• The javascript popups on the wow armory are off the screen if you scroll down at all.
• VNBoards forums login page = fubar.
• Wierd problems with Firefox while Chrome is running (text boxes stop scrolling properly, etc.)
• Wierd problems with windows not repainting correctly in the titlebar/buttonbar areas, or repainting very slowly, especially with Word 2007/Outlook 2007.
• Windows doing crazy shit when dragging an email to the taskbar to attach to another email.
• Yahoo Mail's login page graphics are chopped in half.

I've not noticed any realistic difference in page load times versus Firefox 3.0.2. Pages with large amounts of ads actually take longer to load and pages with Tribalfusion.com ads actually prevent you from clicking javascript-enabled links until they finish loading, which seems to indicate the javascript engine has some potential threading issues. I tried it on some of our intranet stuff like our Oracle front-end (notoriously broken again/fixed again with Firefox) and didn't see any issues.

My initial 2 copper... :P

[Drakkun]

I am actually using 2 browsers now. I am using Chrome for a few websites that I use all day like Gmail, Google Calendar, Todoist, etc. These are websites with no ads (except Gmail) and are very secure/trusted. I am browsing the rest of the net with Firefox + No Script.

If you want to use Chrome without seeing all the ads, use a proxy like Privoxy (freeware). Many of them have ad filter lists.

I am enjoying the simplicity of Chrome and look forward to its improvements. Hopefully it stays simple, yet powerful.

[wowphreak]

Hey competition is always a good thing specially in the browser world.

It tend to lead to more innovating things considering the only time microsoft trys something new is when there forced to

[Yagamoth]

www.opera.com ftw!

So true

Well, I can't say anything about Chrome. I'll probably simply wait until they made their final release.