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Google's Chrome Browser

Tsukasa Buddha said:
Ah, a cool thing that I like is that the password saving feature only asks to save a password after making sure that what you put in worked, so dummies like me don't accidentally save the wrong sign in.
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I like that too, for exactly the same reason! (Oh, and that you don't have to click a box in the middle of the screen to accomplish it.)
 
richardm said:
In fact, I've just tried Youtube and nothing seems to work at all. Booo!
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Right: I've got to the bottom of this problem and I'll throw out my suggested fix in case it's handy for anyone else. I was getting the message "Sorry, this video is no longer available" for all YouTube videos, which was quite annoying.

I'm using Kaspersky Anti-Virus software. If you've got the same issue, you can fix it as follows:

Open Settings->Web Anti-Virus.
Click the "Customize" button.
On the General tab, change from "Use Buffering Scan" to "Use Streaming Scan".
Click Apply and close the settings window.

Restart Chrome (this step is important) and try a video. It should play fine, now.

This has also fixed a problem with choppy playing on the BBC iPlayer, incidentally.
 
jsiv said:
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I actually find the UI to be the biggest downside. It is outright ugly and I am offended that the people at Google think they know what I want better than I do. I like all my programs to have the same look -- the Windows Classic one. For those that prefer something more fancy, I'm sure Chrome would have actually looked nicer with the Vista Aero theme.
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And I like a black & white , text only interface.
There's no pleasing everybody.
 
Well, at least my complaint could easily have been dealt with by simply having Chrome utilize the user interface services offered by Windows instead of reinventing the wheel (or rather, a wildly inferior version of the wheel.)
 
I installed Chrome briefly, but it seemed to insist on being installed on my C: drive, and I don't like to run applications from C:, so I uninstalled it.

For most of the week, my gmail account has been acting funny under Firefox -- I ask for the inbox, and the page loads, but there's nothing there. Hitting refresh reloaded it and got me my inbox, but just now the whole thing stopped working. It just re-displays my signon screen to me.

I may have to re-install Firefox 3, because I can still get Gmail through IE6 so it's apparently not a Gmail problem.

ETA: Clearing cache and cookies for Firefox resolved the Gmail issues, no re-install required.
 
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bokonon said:
I installed Chrome briefly, but it seemed to insist on being installed on my C: drive, and I don't like to run applications from C:, so I uninstalled it..
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Has anyone found a way to remove the GoogleUpdate.exe (it think it was called) process without searching for it and renaming it. I thought I told it not to auto-update on install, yet it still ran, and re-ran even if the process is killed. Everything's fine now that I renamed it though.
 
25 September 2008, 15:51
Iron, a private version of Chromium from Germany

SRWare, a German company, has released Iron, based on Google's Chromium code. The big difference, according to the authors on their German language-only web site, is that the features which have caused people to question the privacy of Google's browser are all disabled.

These features include Chrome's generation of a unique ID for the installation and recording the exact time of installation, Google Suggest functions in the address bar, alternate error pages, bug reporting, updating and tracking, all of which are completely removed from Iron.

heise online UK downloaded Iron, and found that despite the installer only using the German language, that installed browser functioned in English, and, after a brief examination, it did appear that at least some of the features in question were disabled. SRWare has made a Windows executable and the source code available to download.
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Source with links
 
Chrome has slowly won me over to the point that I've finally made it my default browser. The reason? Drag and Drop Tabs. Those things are the best.

If I am typing something in one tab and need to reference something in another tab in the same window, I used to have to copy the URL, open a new browser window, paste, and go. Now, I grab the tab and pull it out into a new window. When I'm done, I either move it back into the stack or close it.

Freakin' love that.
 
Dunno. Who in the world uses Opera? :rolleyes:




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eta: Actually, based on this, Opera doesn't have the "drag the tab to a new window" feature. Or else they didn't highlight it in the video.
 
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Upchurch said:
Chrome has slowly won me over to the point that I've finally made it my default browser. The reason? Drag and Drop Tabs. Those things are the best.

If I am typing something in one tab and need to reference something in another tab in the same window, I used to have to copy the URL, open a new browser window, paste, and go. Now, I grab the tab and pull it out into a new window. When I'm done, I either move it back into the stack or close it.
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While you can't tear a tab off (which is what you mean, right, dragging it out of the Chrome window to create a new window with the tab in it, context and session intact?), you can sort of achieve the same thing in Firefox as well by dragging the tab onto the "new window" toolbar button and it will open in a new window. It won't be the same tab though, so you'll lose any state information and contents of forms and that kind of stuff.

You can also accomplish the same by the more established method of dragging the little icon at the left side of the address bar in the same manner. This also works in IE.

I do like the idea of tear off tabs though. Firefox should add it.
 
I am becoming increasingly convinced that Google are evil and trying to take over the world.

That said, most of the features everyone seems quite excited about seem to exist in FF, or at least the version of it I use (such as saving passwords only after they've actually worked).

Google made a great search engine, but their whole effort to move computing from your computer to their servers gets my big fat thumbs down. I want my intellectual property on my hard drive where I can control access to it, thank you very much.
 
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