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Google's Chrome Browser

I can't seem to set it so that a new tab automatically opens my homepage instead of the Most Visited preview page.

Otherwise, I have not run into any problems yet.
 
jsiv said:
Have you run into any reasons to use it at all?
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I'm almost getting the feeling that you're not wholly in favour of this great blessing that Google have so generously bestowed upon us. Well let me tell you, you'll be sorry when they have completed their plan and the Google-heretics are up against the wall.
 
My first impression (after 10 minutes of use) is that it's a lot faster on this nasty old notebook that I'm using than IE8, Firefox 3 and Opera. That's probably going to keep it in use on this computer where the other browsers have been getting slower and slower with each version.

It definitely needs a lot of work, though. Where, for example, is my Google toolbar? :confused:
 
I frequently refer to a map that uses the Google maps API and has a few thousand markers. This takes 60 seconds to load and display on Firefox, 10 seconds on Chrome (on IE it takes 60 seconds to get to the point where you are sure it isn't really going to work). More mundane web pages seem to be peppier as well.
 
Molinaro said:
I can't seem to set it so that a new tab automatically opens my homepage instead of the Most Visited preview page.

Otherwise, I have not run into any problems yet.
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Via the tools's menu (the spanner icon to the right of the address bar) - choose options and then you can set your homepage or -pages.
 
jsiv said:
Have you run into any reasons to use it at all?
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Well it is a beta at the moment so I would say the only reason to check it put is curiosity. So far there are no features that seem to me to make a compelling case for moving to it.

At the moment, because of the lack of in-page search in input boxes, I can't use it for my day-to-day browsing.
 
Darat said:
At the moment, because of the lack of in-page search in input boxes, I can't use it for my day-to-day browsing.
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Why do you need to search in input-boxes? Haven't you put the content there yourself?

I flove Chrome already! It's so fast and nice!

Plus, have you noticed you can resize this input-field? Look at the bottom right :eye-poppi
 
chran said:
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Plus, have you noticed you can resize this input-field? Look at the bottom right :eye-poppi
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Seems to have that for pretty much any multi line input box - which is nice.

Just noticed you can't add a word to the dictionary.
 
Darat said:
Most of the time no, because I'm editing something like a vBulletin template.
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Oh, right! Yeah, that would be a problem.

Darat said:
Just noticed you can't add a word to the dictionary.
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Yes, and you need to restart Chrome to change the language checked, AND you can't seem to change the GUI-language from the one you installed it with, even after restarting :p
 
My try-everything-out days are long gone. When it comes to a point where it is more stable, faster and more configurable than the current browsers, wake me up.
 
chran said:
you can't seem to change the GUI-language from the one you installed it with, even after restarting :p
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Go into Options -> Minor tweaks -> Change font and language settings
In the new window: Languages -> Google Chrome Language. Restart.

I switched from Danish to English. I hate non-english computerlingo.
 
chran said:
Well, yes. That's what I did?
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And it didn't work? That's strange. Maybe that's the "beta"-part..
Me too!
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Dansk egner sig bare ikke som computersprog.. :D

Chrome is definitely not the be-all-end-all of browsers. It doesn't even do ACID3 better than Firefox. It does pass ACID2 though.

But for gmail et al it seems to be lightning fast.
 
Darat said:
Was that not just a matter of no feedback past a certain point? I thought it had crashed during the FF import but looking on Task Manger saw it was in fact chugging away and after a few minutes it did actually finish.
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It did seem to take a long time to get the importing done for me too.

It does seem quite nippy. I'll see what it's like when the novelty wears off.

Re: no google toolbar; you can just type into the address bar and as well as searching your history it gives a "Search Google for N" option.

Edit: I think the Most Visited feature will be useful; the Speed Dial was the one thing about Opera that I really missed when I stopped using it.

Edit again: If it fixes the problem with Shockwave Flash crashing and making Flash videos unreliable I'll be happy. In fact, I've just tried Youtube and nothing seems to work at all. Booo!
 
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