Google splits browser opposition

What rating would you give Google Chrome (5 = excellent, 1 = poor)?

  • 5

    Votes: 16 22.5%

  • 4

    Votes: 24 33.8%

  • 3

    Votes: 24 33.8%

  • 2

    Votes: 3 4.2%

  • 1

    Votes: 4 5.6%
  • Total voters
    71
Gave it 3. It's not particularly revolutionary - I really miss the page-loading progress bar at the bottom. Firefox/IE in fullscreen looks much the same, plus Firefox hides the address bar!
 
How can they claim 1%? How many of us downloaded it, fired it up, played for an hour or so, then closed it down and went on with our happy (Firefox-driven) lives?

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I think its now 3%. Im actually liking it... so Ill use it until I find a reason not to use it. Have not had any issues yet.. and I like how it handles crash`s. a real lot.
 
w1z4rd said:
I think its now 3%. Im actually liking it... so Ill use it until I find a reason not to use it. Have not had any issues yet.. and I like how it handles crash`s. a real lot.
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I can't use it at work - it refuses to load pages through our WebSense+everythingelse firewall/proxy solution, even though it asks for authentication details... I can't even get onto the login page for GMail (works fine in Firefox).
 
Raithlin said:
I can't use it at work - it refuses to load pages through our WebSense+everythingelse firewall/proxy solution, even though it asks for authentication details... I can't even get onto the login page for GMail (works fine in Firefox).
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Everything works fine for me. Except gmail flies! Oh, and all my firmware browsing is also faster for some reason. I think I will try this browser out for a while still.
 
Had no problems so far, it lacks some features that I use often in firefox but I'm sticking to this browser for a while, I hope the OSX port is just as good.
 
I don't know - i quite like it. It's nice and quick. Only 2 things i don't like:

1) It's flash based *bleh*
2) It uses IE's proxy settings (at work we have a global policy that implements a company proxy on IE every time we connect, but i don't use it so i have to disable it every morning). Firefox uses it's own independent solution so this is a MUCH better feature.
 
It doesnt support RSS (or is it just me) and thats a big downer. I still like it though. Its soooo fast.
 
It's cute and fast.

But I miss the addon/extensions feature.

Things like adblock and the search engine bar.
 
I suppose I will give it a go once it's ported to Linux. But, I am very happy with FF, so it has quite a bit to live up to. There are three addons for FF that I find absolutely invaluable, AdBlock, MM3-ProxySwitch, and NoScript. There are a number of others, but those three are on top of the list.

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sahopeful said:
It's cute and fast.

But I miss the addon/extensions feature.

Things like adblock and the search engine bar.
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Chrome is open source so the add-ons will come as developers start playing with it. It was only released this week so give it some time.

There's a lot of little things missing in the browser that you can get with Firefox but this is purely a beta release so it's no real surprise.
 
Well I tried it yesterday alongside IE and Safari and was not overly impressed, but at the same time was not used too its interface. The epiphany occurred to me when I realised what I had open and why.

I had iGoogle and Gmail open in IE, I had goggle docs open in Safari, had a couple of blogs open in Chrome and I was busy using the goggle toolbar in IE to spell check a forum post.

So I fired up GMail in Chrome, instant perfomance boost, so I opend Google docs and opend a new document. I have 2 screens so wanted to open the new doc on the main display, was about to select open in new window when I discovered I could drag the tab to the main screen and it detached from the old instance and created a new instance on the screen. I opened a second doc, dragged it and over to the new instance and had 2 docs in seperate tabs.

I opened a forum to make a post and found that my spelling was being automatical checked, no need to hit check in the google toolbar.
I completed the post set Chrome as my default browser, restarted windows and am about to uninstall safari, Firefox, ophra, just a pity IE is not removable :)
 
Really, really nice browser EXCEPT:

  • Having no ad-blocker is a big FAIL. I barely recognise all of my favourite websites with all the advertisements. Perhaps there will be support for third-party add-ins (such as Ad-blocker) at a later date...
  • Wont' run on Linux (yet). Hopefully the conversion won't take too long

Kudos to Google for updating the dodgy parts of the EULA so quickly.
 
I don't like the icon :p

Love the fact that you can resize text boxes and embedded spell checking...
 
I don't like the "Stop loading" button on the right - on a XUXGA screen it's just too far to move the mouse! Had that gripe since IE 7 as well.

Furthermore I miss the Firefox add-ins, especially better GMail (ironically enough).

But I am loving the speed increase (I didn't think it possible after FF 3) and the application icons for GMail / Calendar / Docs just work much better than FF+Google Gears.
 
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