Sep 02, 2008 05:13 pm This is a major pain in a corporate environment that uses an ISA server.
Google Chrome is out
Posted on Sep 02, 2008 04:09 pm
dbmasters
Administrator Since: Apr 03, 2002
www.google.com/chrome
Google is entering the web browser market. Seems OK so far, some weirdities, but not bad.
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Sep 02, 2008 05:13 pm This is a major pain in a corporate environment that uses an ISA server.
Sep 02, 2008 05:16 pm hahaha, so far, after using it for a couple hours at work, I'm fairly impressed with it.
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::sigh:: Left out again...
Sep 02, 2008 09:51 pm WE told ya not to buy a Mac now didn't we.:-)
Anyway, I'm gonna install it tonight or tomorrow and give it a go on the surfbox.
Especially after talking to dB tonight about what Microslop is planning to release with the next version of Internet Exploder.
But I still like Firefox and it works great for me.
Sep 03, 2008 12:41 am I installed it gave it a try and uninstalled it. I saw nothing compelling to use it, it wasn't any faster than any other browser I've used/tried and looks crappy to boot. :)
I still prefer IE, nothing in GC or FF has changed that.
Dan
Sep 03, 2008 08:43 am IE8, in it's current version, uses at least 350 MB of RAM just to run, man, it's getting worse and worse.
I have found Chrome to be FAR FAR faster on JavaScript heavy sites, actually amazingly faster. Some of the usability changes I like, more stuff in tabs, not popups like FireFox. I like their use of tabs over the others, a tabbed interface, not just a tabbed window. I see the simple design as one that in the future will be easily skinable...
I dig it, I am going to use it this week and then judge it.
Sep 03, 2008 07:18 pm I would never use IE again after using Firefox. It is so much more capable of a browser the IE.
It stab handling is much better then IE and there are very few things I can complain about in Firefox. IE, now that is another story altogether.
I'll be trying Chrome out this weekend.
Sep 03, 2008 09:24 pm I dunno guys, I really dig this browser so far...
Sep 03, 2008 10:15 pm Will it run as smooth as Firefox on this old surfing beast of PC? If so then I'll be happy.
Sep 04, 2008 09:40 am Now having changed from IE to FF after starting on this very forum I have always been impressed with FF but as a matter of interest I have just downloaded Chrome this morning and It seems to be faster than firefox, however as paul said will run as smoothly - only time will tell.
I personally like the simplicity of the browser (helps coz I is simple like that)
Sep 04, 2008 09:42 am I just went back to FF today. Chrome is nice, but I missed all my plugins for FF to keep me informed of different things...much of which, oddly, is checking my Google things, which I had hoped would be integrated into Chrome, but no luck...
Chrome is impressive, but their TOS kinda bothers me and their feature set is lacking, I am guessingplugins and such will be part of it eventually, once a final release is made...then it's time for peeps to build them.
Sep 04, 2008 07:43 pm Yep, I'll still try it but will wait for the adder's and such before I commit to it.
Sep 06, 2008 08:17 am Bah, No Linux download yet.
Sep 07, 2008 08:01 pm looks like there are privacy concerns of some sort. i wouldn't use it. often i think about ditching my gmail, in fact.
Sep 08, 2008 07:13 am There are always privacy advocates coming out of the woodwork when any large company releases anything. The big problem with this was their cookie-cutter terms of service statement, it wasn't read thru and edited to suit well before release and was just chunks of their other TOS's and was kinda scary sounding, but they did totally rewrite a section of it.
At this point, after dealing with Google for many years, and after being part of an invite-only group of product users for a while, I do believe that Google is not yet being evil at all, regardless of what the haters say.
That being said, until Chrome can support all the plugins that FireFox currently does, I'll stick with FireFox. Regardless of my personal opinions about Google as a company, the browser, while a decent first effort, is substandard by 2008 browser requirements...hell, it's maybe a 2003 browser...
Sep 08, 2008 06:42 pm Double interesting. A little something to think about on both the good and the bad side of things.
Sep 08, 2008 07:02 pm In that article is a link to a cartoon, describing big G's methodology and technical directions.
Pretty interesting propaganda, if nothing else =).
Sep 08, 2008 08:33 pm "At this point, after dealing with Google for many years, and after being part of an invite-only group of product users for a while, I do believe that Google is not yet being evil at all, regardless of what the haters say."
i agree, but i don't have a good feeling. there should be walls.
Sep 08, 2008 09:10 pm Well dB and I touched on the one thing briefly on the phone about having private stuff just floating out there on some unknown server. I'm not sure I want anything like that.
My other beef would be how do you run all your other hardware from a browser based or internet based OS?? Not likely that will happen anytime that I'm alive.
Sep 09, 2008 06:06 am The thing I will say, forty, is that while I don't believe Google is actively TRYING to snub privacy with Chrome, there may develop some beta type privacy/security issues and whatnot, with this browser their data mining and knowledge of users is getting insane.
Sep 09, 2008 08:50 am yeah, thats all i meant. but also what noize said. the idea of bits of you floating around out there on other servers...
unplug your servers, db. forty, stop typing this. doh! can't stop!
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