TEH GOOGAL CHROME!!!!

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:31 pm

It just works. It's small. It's fast. I'm using it - anyone else?

teh video...

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JGmO7Oximw8&hl ... ram><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JGmO7Oximw8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:32 pm

Google should build an OS next...or maybe Ubuntu will be it...currently number 1 on www.distrowatch.com but internally Google has something called Goobuntu which they say they will not be releasing to the public...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:14 pm

Haven't tried it yet. As you know, I'm the slowest person on the planet to adopt a new browser. It think it took you guys about a year or two to get me using Firefox.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:05 pm

I've found one problem with watching a video off of the comcast.net site where it will spawn a separate dialog window with a flash object inside that isn't able to initialize.

Other than that I am really getting used to the rendering speed now. Everything renders very fast. I think that it is EXTREMELY cool that Google put SPEED and STABILITY as the highest design priorities along with a MINIMAL user interface and feature set. If I were design a browser this would be it.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:39 pm

TEH INTARWEB!!!! FRICKFRAKENLY PWN3D!!!! by l2icks0r!!!!!! IT'S MINE!!!!!!

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:19 am

Yeah, but I invented it.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:00 pm

I think Google is trying to reinvent it...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:11 am

Teh wheelZ?

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:29 pm

Still running it...my official review for it now rates it at "not yet totally ready for prime time."

I have had to switch to using Firefox from time to time due to incompatibility with certain websites that don't appear to use anything particularly special dealing with javascript.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:36 pm

Just for fun installed Safari since both Chrome and it use Webkit...I thought maybe Safari would work with the websites Chrome didn't but the rendering behavior is identical with the exception of speed to which end Chrome is the outperformer.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 4:29 pm

Google dumped Gears in favor of HTML 5. Yay for standards adherence!

This is big news for offline use of web code. HTML 5 is pretty awesome, for a fun example of its awesome, look at this page if you have anything recent, other than IE for a browser...

http://9elements.com/io/projects/html5/canvas/

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 10:53 pm

It's about fricken time...is there a line draw capability?

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:11 pm

I'm on a fresh install of Windows 7, and I've just now got all my musical bits and game bits in place. I've yet to install a new browser of choice. I don't meet the pre-requisite specified by the Admiral above. Did not click.

The only thing I didn't like about Chrome before, and maybe it's a setting, or maybe it's changed, was that downloads were not a separate entity. I like to close a browser window when I'm done with it, and leave downloads going in their own little window. I was constantly closing the browser, and cancelling my downloads by doing so. Bleh.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:35 pm

I didn't like the way the downloads worked either when I first started using it but now I've gotten used to it and like having a downloads page.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:49 pm

I may give it another whirling when I decide to unlazificate and install a non-IE browser on my main computer... I really don't do any real browsing on that system. Just the occasional download... I do most of my browsing on the various netbooks strewn about the house.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:40 pm

Chromed...

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:59 pm

Did you check out that site?

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 11:03 am

They DO have a line draw!!! That stuff looks pretty cool. I may have to play around a bit.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 11:35 am

Ok so pretty much you can do whatever with the canvas element - that is pretty damn cool. I might get inspired to do something but a lot has been done already:

http://www.phpguru.org/static/html5-canvas-examples

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 11:46 am

http://physicsketch.appspot.com/

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:14 pm

Wow that is fun...

You can also do video natively with HTML 5:

http://html5demos.com/video

The only problem is the MPEG people have a expensive license for H.264, and paying for an expensive license, doesn't really work when your offering a free browser. The alternative is to use OGG video, but H.264 is superior, so the HTML5 proponents are divided.

More here if you are interested.

Post by **enderzero** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:05 pm

Goodness this is exciting.

A quick note on browsers. I gave a chrome a real fighting chance but there were just a couple things that bothered me too much.
Mainly, I can't give up the multi engine search bar and the in address search is too cumbersome. If there is a plugin to get that functionality I might switch.
There was something else that escapes me now.

That being said it is definitely faster than firefox.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:20 pm

I heard this yesterday: Google is expected to add Chrome Extensions during the next week, allowing users to customize the company's official internet browsing software.

If you are running chrome, take a look at the pure HTML5 youtube!

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:18 pm

Heh, one of the mostest super hugest reasons I like Chrome is because it DOESN'T have that extra edit box for searching. I actually think having more controls is more cumbersome. I like when I open a new tab I can just start typing without using the mouse and don't have to choose whether or not I want to type in a URL or a search engine and then use the mouse to put the focus on the corresponding edit control.

In the rarity I want a multi-search, which I never do because I always find what I am looking for from Google, I just use a piggy back search "engine" like webcrawler.

One problem I have with Chrome is sometimes it doesn't render a website correctly and in some cases makes it impossible to see the site itself because of those annoying overlapping popup objects. When that happens I just use IE.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:03 am

Chrome Extensions Gallery Officially Opens

I like the closing line of the movie in the first post of this thread:

"Even if Google Chrome itself isn't used by everyone on the web. As long as it makes the web better, then we have achieved our goal."

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:54 pm

I've been enjoying the Chrome. I only use one search engine, so that part doesn't bother me. (still using Google, the others can go bing themselves)

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:33 pm

Cool there is an adthwart extension - perhaps that will end the annoying problem that I have been having.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:34 pm

Oh I forgot to mention: Does everyone know about the Chrome Task Manager? Right click on the window frame and select task manager to shutdown instances that suck.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:41 pm

That's cool. Now if I can just get myself to remember it when I have a sucky task!

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:57 am

I'm so addicted to the Firefox addons, I will sacrifice rendering speed for utility.

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