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Walden · Post by **Walden** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:40 pm

Anybody trying Google's new Web browser? Personally I prefer noncommercial.

mukade · Post by **mukade** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:48 pm

Walden wrote:Anybody trying Google's new Web browser? Personally I prefer noncommercial.

They are releasing a beta on September 2nd.

The only feature that caught my eye was that each tab runs as a separate task. If you open a lot of tabs at once, it will stop he program from imploding.

Mukade

jkwest · Post by **jkwest** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:28 am

waiting for them to release it.

jkwest · Post by **jkwest** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:18 pm

got it....its different.

not used to the google ads...

West · Post by **West** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:31 pm

I just installed it. Very fast, nice UI. All in all quite pleasant to use.

Of course, a browser without adblocking capabilities is useless to me, so I'm not leaving FF anytime soon.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:28 pm

OK, here's my quick take on Chrome ...

I really, really, REALLY like it.

Best wishes,
Jerry

Thomaston · Post by **Thomaston** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:50 pm

West wrote: Of course, a browser without adblocking capabilities is useless to me, so I'm not leaving FF anytime soon.

That, combined with not being able to stop extra tabs from opening, is what cause me to go back to Firefox after a short test run.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:29 pm

Thomaston wrote:
West wrote: Of course, a browser without adblocking capabilities is useless to me, so I'm not leaving FF anytime soon.
That, combined with not being able to stop extra tabs from opening, is what cause me to go back to Firefox after a short test run.

It's open source. You're surely not the only one with those complaints. Pretty soon, there'll be plugins (my Gawd, there's a spellchecker in this thing!) or an upgrade to customize those items. (Did I mention that I like it a lot?)

Best wishes,
Jerry

Thomaston · Post by **Thomaston** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:37 pm

Jerry Freeman wrote:
Thomaston wrote:
West wrote: Of course, a browser without adblocking capabilities is useless to me, so I'm not leaving FF anytime soon.
That, combined with not being able to stop extra tabs from opening, is what cause me to go back to Firefox after a short test run.
It's open source. You're surely not the only one with those complaints. Pretty soon, there'll be plugins (my Gawd, there's a spellchecker in this thing!) or an upgrade to customize those items. (Did I mention that I like it a lot?)

Best wishes,
Jerry

I'll probably give it another shot when that's available.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:05 pm

The only thing about I've noticed I don't like so far is, there isn't an auto-fill feature were you can save your frequently used information (name, email address, phone number, billing/mailing addresses, etc.) and then whenever a webpage with a form is loaded, the auto-fill feature offers to fill in the blanks with one mouseclick.

I expect that feature will become available pretty soon, as the issue is already showing up in online discussions.

For my purposes, the user interface is fantastic.

Best wishes,
Jerry

mukade · Post by **mukade** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:36 am

It is still in Beta.
I wouldn't use it for any serious surfing.

It is very light and fast, but I expect that to change once you load up a few add-ons.

The text formatting is messing up a lot as I am typing now.
It still has quite a way to go.

The design features I like are the tab bar placed at the top of the screen
and the standard Windows menu and bookmarks being replaced by individual drop-down buttons on the right.
It gives the browser window more space and clears up the interface.

Mukade

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:57 am

mukade wrote:It is still in Beta.
I wouldn't use it for any serious surfing.

Google Betas don't run like normal Betas, I believe GMail is still technically in Beta as are many of their other tools.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:20 am

mukade wrote:It is still in Beta.
I wouldn't use it for any serious surfing.

It is very light and fast, but I expect that to change once you load up a few add-ons.

The text formatting is messing up a lot as I am typing now.
It still has quite a way to go.

The design features I like are the tab bar placed at the top of the screen
and the standard Windows menu and bookmarks being replaced by individual drop-down buttons on the right.
It gives the browser window more space and clears up the interface.

Mukade

I've been using it exclusively since I installed it (that would be several hours of "serious surfing"), and unless I discover a serious problem, it will be my default browser from now on.

I've observed the glitch with typing, but the behavior is comprehensible and I can live with it for now. It clears up if I wait a few seconds while the screen catches up with the keystrokes, or I can make it go away by scrolling up and down so the glitchy part is off the screen for a second. I assume they'll clean that up eventually.

I've also observed that pages with video (YouTube, news clips, etc.) tend to hang up when you try to close them if the video hasn't finished completely. I'll check to see if I can control that by pausing the video before closing the tab.

The user interface is fantastic. The tabs arrangement is very clean and direct, and having my frequently visited favorite website links displayed on the bookmark toolbar is great. The integration of Google search and the URL box is extremely fast and convenient.

It should only get better. I'm very impressed and happy with it based on my experience so far.

Best wishes,
Jerry

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:29 pm

Here's an excellent review:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/09/0 ... index.html

Best wishes,
Jerry

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:03 am

The only thing that's annoyed me about it so far is that I keep double clicking the title bar and instead of a new tab I end up resizing my window.

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