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Google's Chrome Browser

alfaniner said:
???Care to clarify?
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Sure.

I can right-click and move the mouse with the button still pressed, depening on how I move the mouse - and where - the browser will perform a particular action.

e.g. moving the mouse "up" over a link will open it in a new tab, moving "down" over a link will open it in a new window. Moving the mose "up" and then "left" will take me to the next browser tab, "up" and then "right" to the previous tab, etc.

So, for many things I routinely do whilst surfing, I only have to move my mouse for about 30 odd pixels, rather than dig through menus or reach for the keyboard.

I use "new tab" and "new window" extensively and dow't want to miss it.
 
Darat said:
Memory use is on the high side. Loaded up three websites in separate tabs in Opera, FF, Chrome, Safari & IE:
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The comic strip basics lecture gives some detail on why that is. The claim is that over time less memory leakage occurs as each time a tab is closed ALL memory is returned to Windows. I suspect The more memory you can give it, the better the multiple website perfoprmance is compared to Firefox or IE.
If you habitually only open one or two web pages, you will be better with a more traditional browser.

But where will future development of Chrome take us towards integration of multiple web apps?
 
alfaniner said:
Rasmus said:
I am not going to surf without my mouse gestures.
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???Care to clarify?
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I'm guessing you're not a Firefox user? Mouse gestures enable you to carry out various browsing activities (new tab, close window, forward one page, etc.), by holding down a mouse button and drawing a simple shape onscreen. For example, with my setup, to go back a page, I hold down the right mouse key and draw a horizontal line to the left.

It's generally a quicker way to surf, if you're into these things.


ETA: I see Rasmus was there before me.
 
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BillC said:
I'm guessing you're not a Firefox user? Mouse gestures enable you to carry out various browsing activities (new tab, close window, forward one page, etc.), by holding down a mouse button and drawing a simple shape onscreen. For example, with my setup, to go back a page, I hold down the right mouse key and draw a horizontal line to the left.

It's generally a quicker way to surf, if you're into these things.


ETA: I see Rasmus was there before me.
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Actually, I am. I just haven't looked too much into addons except for the most popular. However, this sounded like the "Miracle" gestures which were required in the game Black & White (& BW Deluxe, & BW 2), and even though I never finished those games (recounted here a couple times) I always loved the gestures.

Now if only they make sparkles as you draw them...

I will definitely check it out, thanks!
 
First impressions of Google Chrome:

- I was a bit put off by the "one textbox to rule them all", where my address bar is also my search bar, but after using the browser for the few days I really like it. +10 points.

- The "most visited websites" feature is more useful than I thought it'd be. +10

- Browsing is lightning fast, easily 2 to 3 seconds faster per page than IE and Firefox. For this reason alone, Chrome is primary browser, and I use IE and Firefox by necessity alone. +20

- User interface is very appealing and modern. +5

- A couple of Community Server sites don't render properly. -5

- Viewing area is very large. However, I was a bit put off by the absence of a status, but I actually like how the status bar only displays I hover over links and when pages are loading -- after getting used to this feature, I'd kinda like to see Firefox and IE behave the same way. +10

- I did not have any installation problems like other users did. Installation was smooth and error free. +5

- I can only get to my bookmarks through the bookmarks toolbar -- I haven't found any other menus in the browser that show my bookmarks. When I uncheck the "always show bookmarks toolbar", the toolbar disappears entirely; I thought it was a collapsible menu that expanded when I hovered over the collapsed region, but its just gone. I can only get my bookmarks menu back by re-checking "always show bookmarks toolbar". -10.

- The back button on most browsers only lets me move back to the immediate previous page, unlike FF and IE that let give me a dropdown list of my recent history and allow me to jump back multiple pages. -5


Features I'd like to see:

- I'd to be able to add generic widget toolbars anywhere I want in the browser.

- Of course, I'd like a Widget API so I can write or download widget plugins.



In general, I like a very bare bones browser. I don't use many plugins (I only have the Firebug, Meebo, and Chatzilla plugins installed on Firefox, nothing else). Chrome gets the job done for me.
 
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I can see this browser leading to the 'real' Web 2.0 that all the fellow IT hypesters keep squawking about.
 
Princess said:
- I can only get to my bookmarks through the bookmarks toolbar -- I haven't found any other menus in the browser that show my bookmarks. When I uncheck the "always show bookmarks toolbar", the toolbar disappears entirely; I thought it was a collapsible menu that expanded when I hovered over the collapsed region, but its just gone. I can only get my bookmarks menu back by re-checking "always show bookmarks toolbar". -10.
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At the far right of my bookmarks toolbar, I have a "other bookmarks" folder icon, which drops down to show my entire bookmarks list. At first I kept accidentally putting things into my bookmarks toolbar, which was annoying to me. I figured out the difference, and have it straightened out now.

ladyattis said:
I can see this browser leading to the 'real' Web 2.0 that all the fellow IT hypesters keep squawking about.
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I thought we were already firmly enmeshed in web 2.0 (the vast majority of the information available being provided by the vox populi), and the "information cloud" was going to be web 3.0. I'm not sure how that information cloud thing is supposed to work though.

I guess I'm not pushing the browser to its capabilities, because I don't really see much difference between it and IE and Netscape, aside from the interface.
 
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The thing is the Web 2.0 thing isn't really new. We've always had a degree of popular or 'democratic' methods on the Internet. The difference today is that the tools are easier to use both as a developer and an end user (sometimes, AJAX still sucks). All Web 2.0 does is make it prettier and it sounds sexier to say than to say Mesh Networks Always Peer (MNAP).
 
ladyattis said:
The thing is the Web 2.0 thing isn't really new. We've always had a degree of popular or 'democratic' methods on the Internet. The difference today is that the tools are easier to use both as a developer and an end user (sometimes, AJAX still sucks). All Web 2.0 does is make it prettier and it sounds sexier to say than to say Mesh Networks Always Peer (MNAP).
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Well, I don't know about "always" with respect to a degree of popular content providers. Early on, the web content was controlled by a handful of corporations -- of content providers -- which quickly evolved into more than a handful. But that evolution sort of leveled off for a period of time until people started blogging and foruming and what not.

It's my impression that today's tools -- which are easier to use and more available -- is what makes everybody a publisher, and therefore makes the Web 2.0 thingy.

But I agree that Web 2.0 isn't new.
 
Princess said:
- The back button on most browsers only lets me move back to the immediate previous page, unlike FF and IE that let give me a dropdown list of my recent history and allow me to jump back multiple pages. -5
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If you right-click on the "back" arrow, you get the drop-down list of your recent history that you are looking for.
 
Princess said:
First impressions of Google Chrome:

- I was a bit put off by the "one textbox to rule them all", where my address bar is also my search bar, but after using the browser for the few days I really like it. +10 points.
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This is something the other browsers have had forever though, and have only recently started moving away from.

Princess said:
- The "most visited websites" feature is more useful than I thought it'd be. +10
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Also exists in the competition.

Princess said:
- User interface is very appealing and modern. +5
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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.
 
I've heard the latest download of "Picasa" includes the left nut, right arm, first born acquisition "rights", word-for-word as in the original Google Chrome EULA.
 
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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