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
My browsing at home is fine but at work I cant use it. Some of the online ordering sites that the company use doesnt work. Last night I tried it on sites that loads lots of thumbnails. It seems that it "render" the site after its almost completely done (Old Netscape). Waiting for a site to load 120 tumbnails before you can see it and then decide if you like it is a waste of time.

Overall its clean and fast and as a afrikaans speaking person I like the spelling check hehe.
 
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 had one freeze up so far after installing it last night,if only the bookmarks could be next to the home button.:(
 
I think for the average user it feels like a skin for Firefox. You can see they have used a lot of the Mozilla base.
 
I might use Chrome "full time" when it adds the few features it's missing, and when someone comes up with an adblocker.

Then it will be pretty much a 5, compared to all other browsers at least.
 
I've been using it for a bit of the day and I'm a convert. It's fast. It's incredibly fast. It starts up fast, it loads pages fast, it does everything fast. It's the fastest web-browser I have ever seen. It lacks a few things here and there, but I am extremely impressed so far.
 
I give it a one and won't use it until they sort out their installation issues! I work with installers a lot (well its my work) and there is a simple principle of what you install should be removed upon uninstall.

They didn't get this right so, I will give it a pass untill they fix this. Then I will consider installing it.

If you want 'n full inspection of their installation process, here is a blog post from one of the install guru's at Microsoft. He created WiX (Windows Installer XML) and paid a bit close attension to Google Chrome.
 
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tristan said:
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...
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Yup exactly, those epileptic invoking ads ftl
 
I gave it a 4...It's nice and fast but I and a friend experience HECTIC slowdown with 4 tabs opened on different websites for some reason.
 
How safe is this browser? Google-analytics and GMail have poor privacy track records,
how sure can we be that Google does not collect information on our browsing habits?

The other thing is that the browser installs at least one other app in the Startup
group which doesn't get deleted with Uninstallation.
 
I'll refrain from rating it until there's a decent linux version
 
I'll wait for the Linux version, but will definately consider using it to replace Prism for webapp style stuff. It looks like it has a lot going for it there.
 
PeterCH said:
How safe is this browser? Google-analytics and GMail have poor privacy track records,
how sure can we be that Google does not collect information on our browsing habits?

The other thing is that the browser installs at least one other app in the Startup
group which doesn't get deleted with Uninstallation.
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Google is all about collection of data. Having their own browser makes perfect sense, as it gives them massive capability into tracking every aspect of a user's web life.

What's actually more interesting to me right now is that the browser now positions Google on the desktop in potentially endless more ways. It's now very easy for them to make their online office suite work "offline" in the "browser". Similarly they can now easily integrate many other products seamlessly directly on the desktop - including mail, their calendar, google maps. The list goes on and on. Just think, how many of these products stand to benefit with tight integration to a user's desktop? This "browser" is about collaberation, and I believe Google have smartly found a way to compete head on with Microsoft's most powerful and most used productivity system: Microsoft Office.

For many years there's been a lot of talk that Google wants to bring out their own OS. I don't believe that is entirely far-fetched, and I think what we have here is the beginnings of that process. This "browser" will make it that much easier.
 
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