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Anyone playing with it yet?

Seems to render pages pretty quickly.

I'm using it now to test it out.
It does seem a bit faster.
I miss the security feature of having a master password.

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Chris Suich
Apex, NC
AutoX 2012 Nissan Leaf (Quietly changing the world)
AutoX 2003 Mini Cooper S (on sabbatical)
RallyX 1993 Nissan Sentra - "Le Tigre"
FunX 1970 Camaro LT1 ('95)

Two questions for those of you who may be in the know:

1. Why did Google decide to create a browser? I mean, what do they think they can do better than established sources?

2. Isn't this going to mean the death of Firefox? IIRC Google was Mozilla's primary source of income -- since FF used Google explicitly as default search, and goog paid for it.

If I were Mozilla I'd be pretty worried right about now. Seems as though Goog could have done a better job acquiring/partnering rather than going head-to-head.

Unless I'm missing something, like Goog already acquired Mozilla?

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It's faster than Firefox 3 and hasn't crashed yet -- something that FF3 tended to do a couple of times a week.

It's also bringing up pages that previously had to be viewed either in IE or by using the IE tab in FF. Daddy like.

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They had a bit on Chrome on Marketplace (NPR) tonight. The guy they interviewed said that the play was, most likely, a way to bring new features to the browser that would allow apps - think Google Maps - to improve more quickly. Google makes their money on advertising. So even if Chrome tanks in the "Browser Wars," so long as Microsoft and Mozilla implement these new feature sets, Google wins.

Hrm. Bringing new features into the browser to allow apps to become more clever. Sound familiar? Reminds me an awful lot of IE, back when Microsoft first went after Netscape Navigator.

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Karl S.
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I haven't downloaded it yet but one of the reviews I read gave middling results on raw speed on generic news and sports sites. What the browser was very fast at, though, is JS. The reviewer tried some JavaScript performance test site and saw a large improvement in speed there. This makes sense to allow things like Google Maps/Mail/Chat/online office work better.

--Kevin H.

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it wont let me scroll up using the scroll wheel. =/. It also wont let me scroll using my thinkpad's third button. That bothers me enough to not use it.

Other than that, the new tab location takes time to get used to and the lack of almost any sort of adjustability of options is annoying.

<-- Will have to wait and see.

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But the "don't be evil" side of the story is, from what I understand -- Chrome is 100% open source. So whatever cool browser functionality Google creates is available, line by line in code, for Mozilla and MS to pick up for their products.

I'm guessing that, from Google's perspective, it's an opportunity to expedite improvements in web services. If they do enough cool stuff for their apps in Chrome, the other guys will follow suit, and may even be able to pick up the source code for free from Google. I'm sure their goal is to eliminate the middlemen in defining defacto web standards.

Not a bad plan. As an avid Google application user, I'm looking forward to their fast-path to browser improvements. I'd like to stay with FF as the underdog though.

I also wonder if there is a business complication in the fact that Mozilla is not-for-profit. I know that acquisition of not-for-profit by for-profit is difficult. Maybe Google is hiring off all the Mozilla developers and that company is on a planned death spiral, acquisition by attrition.

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Mike Whitney
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For those of you interested, you can load Chrome in Visual Studio and edit/debug it...

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Carl Fisher

Be Cool to the Pizza Dude:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4651531

hmmm... my scroll wheel works for me.

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Chris Suich
Apex, NC
AutoX 2012 Nissan Leaf (Quietly changing the world)
AutoX 2003 Mini Cooper S (on sabbatical)
RallyX 1993 Nissan Sentra - "Le Tigre"
FunX 1970 Camaro LT1 ('95)

I've had great luck with FF3 running XP here at work. I like the updated look, and it seems faster to me than previous versions. Now... my Vista laptop, while it works great, for whatever reason, it will not let me load/use new skins, and that is annoying. It's reverted back to the old Netscape look which I hate. (I like eye-candy.)

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Stacy King
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Beware of the "Open all bookmarks" feature

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Chris Suich
Apex, NC
AutoX 2012 Nissan Leaf (Quietly changing the world)
AutoX 2003 Mini Cooper S (on sabbatical)
RallyX 1993 Nissan Sentra - "Le Tigre"
FunX 1970 Camaro LT1 ('95)

LOL ... why would that even be a feature?!

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Stacy King
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That works great in Firefox when you can open a folder. Chrome is missing a spellcheck function (it recognizes misspelled words but doesn't offer replacement suggestions. In this very box here where I am typing, words on the left hand side against the pane are missing a couple of letters, only to have them reappear as I type across the pane.

The incognito window is a neat feature, though.

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Dirty old man!


mispelled -> misspelled

There is a redraw problem in the text box.

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"Ruttin' is racing"

Chris Suich
Apex, NC
AutoX 2012 Nissan Leaf (Quietly changing the world)
AutoX 2003 Mini Cooper S (on sabbatical)
RallyX 1993 Nissan Sentra - "Le Tigre"
FunX 1970 Camaro LT1 ('95)