I don't care much for synthetic benchmarks, i prefer to judge my browsers on real-life performance.
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I don't care much for synthetic benchmarks, i prefer to judge my browsers on real-life performance.
Thank you BigAl-sa. I installed 5.0.375.55 last night and searched teh interwabz in vain for a real adblock addon. I was starting to think that the only option would be to install privoxy, which sent me right back to Firefox.
Even with the faster web rendering, a browser without adblock is a non-starter.
Another thing that put me off Chrome was having to set the proxy etc. env. variables. I would prefer this as an option in the GUI.
Flash is working for me BTW. Slackware64-13.0, Chrome 5.0.375.55 and 64 bit libflashplayer.so that I stole from Ubuntu 10.04
.Adoxographist
Senior Member
Safari is a resource hog - takes tons of ram for that cover flow for history and 100mb on your hard drive.
d0b33
Honorary Master
Flash is working for me BTW. Slackware64-13.0, Chrome 5.0.375.55 and 64 bit libflashplayer.so that I stole from Ubuntu 10.04
Weird I've always had flash working just ran chrome auto update and flash still works.
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kingrob
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I'm running Chrome 5 beta on Windows 7 and haven't had any problems. Google likes to keep everything beta for ages.
Any case, only time you know you're running a beta, is when you go "About Chrome"....and I never do that.
Gmail was in beta for YEARS!
UnUnOctium
Expert Member
No FireFTP, no DownThemAll!.... still a bit of a way to go, chromium :/
d0b33
Honorary Master
I'm running Chrome 5 beta on Windows 7 and haven't had any problems. Google likes to keep everything beta for ages.
Any case, only time you know you're running a beta, is when you go "About Chrome"....and I never do that.
I'm not impressed with the look of chrome on Windows, the buttons are close to the edge which looks off, and the "google" branding is
, the OSX port developers have taste at least, very polished on OSX 
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kingrob
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I'm not impressed with the look of chrome on Windows, the buttons are close to the edge which looks off, and the "google" branding is
Apple fanboi!
Chrome 5 looks absolutely gorgeous on my 15.4'' notebook. Buffed it up a leetle bit with the aniweather, google maps and download extensions.
Jonny Two Shoes
Expert Member
I don't know if it is a bug but I seem to be the only person in the world who sees it. Probably me being stupid or my PC as I have never upgraded in many years but I have been through a few OS's with the same issue. Chrome does not render/show new fields immediately after a radio button or box is clicked on. e.g. Check Absa Internet Banking when you want to send an email to yourself for the transaction you gotta click on the button to open the field but in Chrome you then have to click away then click on it again before the fields become available to type your email address. I recall every now and then some other pages have this issue too. It's small and pretty harmless but I wonder why lol. I have noticed this since early days of Chrome through to this day.
Other than that I have had to drop Chrome because I am busy doing MCITP and every now and then I come across a Microsoft presentation using Silverlight or practice on a Hyper-V desktop in the browser or use VMWARE to mess around on a virtual server and Chrome cannot do any of that :/
and I hate having to swap and change because I am a neat freak on a PC so I just stick with one browser.
Other than that I have had to drop Chrome because I am busy doing MCITP and every now and then I come across a Microsoft presentation using Silverlight or practice on a Hyper-V desktop in the browser or use VMWARE to mess around on a virtual server and Chrome cannot do any of that :/
and I hate having to swap and change because I am a neat freak on a PC so I just stick with one browser.
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f0xZA
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Ex firefox convert .. that changed the day i saw how well chrome utilized your screen. O_O
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kingrob
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Will never forget the first time I installed Chrome! After installing it, I just saw this big "empty" page.....and I quickly dashed back to Firefox.
But then came Facebook games....and if you have 50+ tabs open at the same time (I kid you not), Firefox just came to a grinding halt, more like totally unusable. We were a large group of people playing similar games and we all concluded that Chrome is the best browser on the planet. Since then I have tested other browsers...maybe the odd test of the new Opera or Safari, but I always come back to Chrome.
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Deleted member 78630
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Chrome is nearing perfection, they r on the right path, as for IE...
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kingrob
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The really sad thing is that Microsoft is still advertising IE8....WTF???? Actually saw an IE8 ad on here!
Chrome isn't too bad, but I hate not knowing what is loading in the background. Therefore, I still prefer Opera, as it has the option to display the progress and the speed at which the page is loading. Whereas in Chrome a small thing pops up telling you that it is connecting to that domain, but nothing else. Also the new Opera (10.5x and 10.6a) is faster than Chrome and looks better.
One thing I miss is the history dropdown - I like to use it get to the sites I visit regularly. Chrome's new tab page is ok, but remembers too few sites.
One thing I really hate is the flyover popups, especially on vb forums (such as mybb). It's really horrible on my netbook where the popup can take up almost half the screen with threads started by garrulous members. phpbb is much better in that respect, with no popups.
One thing I really hate is the flyover popups, especially on vb forums (such as mybb). It's really horrible on my netbook where the popup can take up almost half the screen with threads started by garrulous members. phpbb is much better in that respect, with no popups.