google chrome - anyone trying?

[My Name is URL]

So what good features have people found in Chrome then?

I've just done Ctrl - F to find a word on a page and I noticed as you search a little box appears top right of the page. It tells you how many matches on the page it has for the term you are searching.

As you type it re-checks and updates how many matches.

It also shows a bar on the side of the page showing where (comparative to the scroll bars) the matches are....

A small feature, but a great one when searching forums etc.

 

[db]

chrome was bumming the living hell out of my hard drive on the regular, but i've managed to stop it by turning off the "malware" protection.. hardly an ideal solution, but at the moment it's the only one..

apart from that, I'm Loving Itâ„¢, as ronald would say

 

[db]

anyone else noticed chrome becoming increasingly sluggish the longer you have it open.. after a few hours, it starts to take a few seconds to refresh the screen on my machine.. i've ended up going back to FF

 

[Toble]

anyone else noticed chrome becoming increasingly sluggish the longer you have it open.. after a few hours, it starts to take a few seconds to refresh the screen on my machine.. i've ended up going back to FF

I've had a few occurrences of Chrome locking up after an hour, crashing my machine or even once closing down copies of firefox and IE that were open (both closed at the same time - don't tell me thats a coincidence).

I've given it the bullet.

 

[Wookie]

And there's been a security flaw discovered http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1843 :

"Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks.
Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at this year’s Black Hat conference — to trick users into launching executables direct from the new browser.
Raff has cooked up a harmless demo of the attack in action, showing how a Google Chrome users can be lured into downloading and launching a JAR (Java Archive) file that gets executed without warning."

 

[Si]

I tried this when it came out but had the same prob I had with firefox (I use IIS on my PC for website development and niether browser lets me view websites on my own machine) so I'm stuck with IE.

 

[shoes]

I've gone back to FF too, Chrome seems to get progressively crapper unless you close and open a new instance every so often. I think bob mentioned this too earlier on in the thread.

Shoes

 

[db]

I've gone back to FF too, Chrome seems to get progressively crapper unless you close and open a new instance every so often. I think bob mentioned this too earlier on in the thread.

Shoes

i did indeed, and that's exactly why i went back to FF.. shame, because apart from that it was quick as feck!

 

[wmrcomputers]

gk's encouraged me onto google chrome from another thread, and so far i'm impressed with it... allthough it is early days.

I'll see how it goes and update the thread with my opinions at a later date.

 

[MyCult]

Have avoided commenting on this thread because I am a little (very) biased.

As far as I am concerned Google are SkyNet and they are in your computer reading your mind. Don't be Evil my arse. Chrome unashamedly puts G at the forefront of your browsing experience with the Omnibox. This is just one more data mining tool to maintain their monopoly. Theres plenty of M$ hate out there but very little around for G (apart from certain circles). My advice don't use Chrome. But you don't have to listen to me, I don't allot of the time.

 

[Wookie]

Chrome has a new Javascript engine, apparently.

 

[db]

did anyone else use chrome for about a fortnight thinking it was pretty cool, then god a bit fed up of its little idiosyncracies and went back to a proper browser, then completely forgot chrome even existed? i know i did lol..

seeing as gmail is still in "beta," i can't imagine chrome final will come along any time soon..

 

[tek-monkey]

I'm using chrome at home still, but only cos FF died during an update!

 

[MyCult]

as you all know I hide in a home made faraday cage in the shed so google can't read my mind but for those less paranoid we have (fan fair) Chrome too point oh

 

[db]

as you all know I hide in a home made faraday cage in the shed so google can't read my mind but for those less paranoid we have (fan fair) Chrome too point oh

2.0?? i didn't think the first one was out of beta?? those crazy googlians..

they need to get off their arse and sort out a mac version, frankly..

 

[My Name is URL]

Chrome is still my default browser... FF and IE can't touch it for speed....

Can't believe anyone would willingly go back.... only thing I miss is Xmarks (a.k.a Foxmarks) and maybe SageToo feed reader.

 

[MyCult]

The reason *i believe* that chrome is so much swifter and more stable is that it treats every tab as a seperate process essentially multi-threading your browsing. So when the wonderful video of the women and the cups jiggers your tab Chrome allows you to kill that process not just start the whole browser again. This multi-threading also adds to the speed.

I think I have read the FF will be using multi-threading in new releases. I may be wrong I might of read it on the back of a bottle of cider