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Google Chrome: Google builds an OPERATING SYSTEM! (p34)

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  • ProbadProbad Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Facebook chat is working fine on Chrome today.

    Well, as fine as facebook chat ever works.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Looks like the dev channel's got bookmark syncing now. And, mere hours earlier, Xmarks added Chrome support.

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  • jonxpjonxp [E] PC Security Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Well, the syncing was in the repo for a while longer than the few hours between those announcements.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Yeah, Lifehacker speculated that Xmarks rushed out Chrome support because they knew the official support was well on its way. Oh, and extra info on the syncing - looks like the bookmarks are backed up to Google Docs via the Google Talk servers.

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  • LoneIgadzraLoneIgadzra Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I was wondering what was taking Google so long on bookmark sync.

    Gonna stick with xmarks though because it works with all my other browsers too.

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  • MaskedWallabyMaskedWallaby Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I wish Google would just finish Chromium. Chrome is my favorite Windows browser as of now, though I'm so deep into Firefox by now on my Mac that the switch might be kind of hard.

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I wish Google would just finish Chromium. Chrome is my favorite Windows browser as of now, though I'm so deep into Firefox by now on my Mac that the switch might be kind of hard.
    Chromium is basically the development-version of Chrome. It's where features show up first.

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I think he really just means that they finish the Mac-compatibility.

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    devoir wrote: »
    I think he really just means that they finish the Mac-compatibility.
    oh. ... that makes much more sense now. whoopsy!

    :oops:

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  • Lord JezoLord Jezo Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Question: Is there a way to change the color it highlights text box fields? For example, here on PA it has my name/pass stored but the yellow color that it makes the login box makes the text entered almost impossible to read.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Recent changes: themes gallery and [url=chrome://extensions]a basic extensions manager[/url] (you have to copy-paste that link into Chrome). Also, third-party extensions! Lots of them! Including mouse gestures, smooth scrolling (doesn't work in Google Reader), Facebook notifications (which made Chrome use 1.3 gigs of RAM on my system), session saving, that once Firefox-bound alternative to IE8's Accelerators, a basic Delicious bookmarker and a Hotmail notifier.

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    And of course http://www.adsweep.org/

    Reminder: you have to enable extensions via the command line and the shell.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    True that, although they've apparently just changed it so that dev channel users won't have to anymore, huzzah.

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  • GogoKodoGogoKodo Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Cyvros wrote: »
    Recent changes: themes gallery and [url=chrome://extensions]a basic extensions manager[/url] (you have to copy-paste that link into Chrome). Also, third-party extensions! Lots of them! Including mouse gestures, smooth scrolling (doesn't work in Google Reader), Facebook notifications (which made Chrome use 1.3 gigs of RAM on my system), session saving, that once Firefox-bound alternative to IE8's Accelerators, a basic Delicious bookmarker and a Hotmail notifier.
    Mouse gestures is the one thing holding me off from Chrome. I just changed to dev channel and tried to install a few different mouse gesture packages I googled but got an installation error with all of them. I suppose I'll have to hold off a little longer.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    devoir wrote: »
    And of course http://www.adsweep.org/

    Reminder: you have to enable extensions via the command line and the shell.
    Update: Due to lack of time, lack of technical support, and despite repeated requests with no feedback, I sadly had to discontinue the AdSweep project. You can still download it and tweak the source code to your needs if you know how to do so. I will no longer remove ads on demand. Thanks to those who have helped me.

    :(

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I just found a fantastic extension/userscript: AdBlock+ (yeah, it's not the actual thing, someone just borrowed the name). It's basically an element hider with keyboard shortcuts, so it doesn't have subscriptions/lists/things.

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    MKR wrote: »
    devoir wrote: »
    And of course http://www.adsweep.org/

    Reminder: you have to enable extensions via the command line and the shell.
    Update: Due to lack of time, lack of technical support, and despite repeated requests with no feedback, I sadly had to discontinue the AdSweep project. You can still download it and tweak the source code to your needs if you know how to do so. I will no longer remove ads on demand. Thanks to those who have helped me.

    :(

    Still works pretty damn well. Someone will pick it up when an update to Chrome breaks it.

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  • Lord JezoLord Jezo Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Now that Chrome 3 is out I have been using it more and more. It just seems so light weight, I know it's a digital thing on my monitor but compared to IE and even Firefox it makes those other browsers feel like heavy beasts.

    I still prefer FF for adblock/flashblock but Chrome is doing a good job.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    In case any of you guys are on the dev channel and Chrome keeps crashing on you, you'll probably have to make some changes to the switches in the shortcut: remove --enable-sync for the moment and insert --disable-extensions.

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  • DritzDritz CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Chrome seems to support flash by default on Linux now (least in Ubuntu) for those interested. I can see myself using it a lot more now that flash is included.

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  • jonxpjonxp [E] PC Security Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Works on Mac too.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    In the comments for the latest dev channel release, someone pointed out that you can now pin tabs. Basically, it's the same thing as FaviconizeTab for Firefox - makes the tab into an icon and shifts it to the start of the tab strip. No tab protection/locking. :(

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  • GrimReaperGrimReaper Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    GogoKodo wrote: »
    Cyvros wrote: »
    Recent changes: themes gallery and [url=chrome://extensions]a basic extensions manager[/url] (you have to copy-paste that link into Chrome). Also, third-party extensions! Lots of them! Including mouse gestures, smooth scrolling (doesn't work in Google Reader), Facebook notifications (which made Chrome use 1.3 gigs of RAM on my system), session saving, that once Firefox-bound alternative to IE8's Accelerators, a basic Delicious bookmarker and a Hotmail notifier.
    Mouse gestures is the one thing holding me off from Chrome. I just changed to dev channel and tried to install a few different mouse gesture packages I googled but got an installation error with all of them. I suppose I'll have to hold off a little longer.

    You know, it's funny but even though I use mouse gestures all the time I only ever use two. Back and forward. They can do just about any command but with me.. just back and forward.

    Also, is it just me or have news on chromeOS have pretty much gone silent?

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    GrimReaper wrote: »
    GogoKodo wrote: »
    Cyvros wrote: »
    Recent changes: themes gallery and [url=chrome://extensions]a basic extensions manager[/url] (you have to copy-paste that link into Chrome). Also, third-party extensions! Lots of them! Including mouse gestures, smooth scrolling (doesn't work in Google Reader), Facebook notifications (which made Chrome use 1.3 gigs of RAM on my system), session saving, that once Firefox-bound alternative to IE8's Accelerators, a basic Delicious bookmarker and a Hotmail notifier.
    Mouse gestures is the one thing holding me off from Chrome. I just changed to dev channel and tried to install a few different mouse gesture packages I googled but got an installation error with all of them. I suppose I'll have to hold off a little longer.

    You know, it's funny but even though I use mouse gestures all the time I only ever use two. Back and forward. They can do just about any command but with me.. just back and forward.

    Also, is it just me or have news on chromeOS have pretty much gone silent?

    I wouldn't expect them to put out much news on the Chrome OS until it has many more features and is much more polished and closer to completion.

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  • contrabandcontraband Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I'm using 4.0.211.2 for Mac right now. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what this gigantic bar is that appeared at the bottom of my browser?

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    Also, is there any way to turn on an option for going Back by pressing backspace (delete on a Mac)? It seems to work in every other browser, and I've gotten really used to it!

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I'm not entirely sure, but I believe that may be the extensions bar. I hope it isn't, though, because showing the extensions bar when it's not being used is just stupid considering the whole minimalism thing they're into.

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  • contrabandcontraband Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    It's definitely a glitch. It'll stay put while the rest of the window is resized around it. Observe:

    If I make the window a little bigger... picture2scb.th.png

    or a little smaller...picture3zq.th.png

    I just want it gone :( I tried deleting the preferences files, and even launching another version of Chrome out of the .DMG from Google. I'm afraid of removing Chrome completely because I like the history, favorites, etc I've got going with it.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    That's really weird. I checked the bugs list and couldn't find anything. Maybe you could report this as a bug and persevere with Chrome or use a different browser until the next update (which should be Thursday-ish).

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  • contrabandcontraband Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I'm back with my dumb bug report again. I just formatted my hard drive and installed Snow Leopard. First thing I did was install Chrome... Same big bar :(

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    It would seem that Chrome's not for you. :P

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  • contrabandcontraband Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    IT MAKES NO SENSE, I TELL YOU

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Video of Chrome OS, from Chrome's Twitter account late last night

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJByVHyNIi0&feature=player_embedded

    edit: whoops, turned out to be a fake, albeit a nice looking one.

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  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    edited September 2009
    Very sexy interface, damn near perfect for netbooks.

    I might die a little inside if it were the only computer I had, but what a fucking amazing mobile OS.

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  • GrimReaperGrimReaper Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Smart Hero wrote: »
    Video of Chrome OS, from Chrome's Twitter account late last night

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJByVHyNIi0&feature=player_embedded

    Umm, anyone else notice how you have to login using a google account? That shit is fucked up.

    So, you can't create a local user. It's either a. you sign in using a google account on your installed os or b. use an anonymous user account.

    EDIT: Are you sure this is genuine and not fake?
    EDIT2: From the comments this sounds decidedly fake.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Windows already does that with Passport accounts, although it's not required. Yet.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    GrimReaper wrote: »
    EDIT: Are you sure this is genuine and not fake?
    EDIT2: From the comments this sounds decidedly fake.
    At 0'29", the left-hand instructions says "Sign up in tree simple steps." I'm going to go with fake, too.

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  • FatsFats Corvallis, ORRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I dunno, it's not entirely out of line with what Google is doing now. You can't use an Android phone without logging into a Gmail account (or using a custom ROM).

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  • jonxpjonxp [E] PC Security Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I fully expect it to require a Google account. The entire concept of the Chrome OS is to integrate your web experience and desktop experience. If you just want an open source OS with a web browser, you have many other options.

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  • contrabandcontraband Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I don't understand the big deal about requiring a Google account. If you want an open environment, build your own operating system :s

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  • theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    What's so fake about it? The typo is probably because they're more interested in testing functions at the moment than catching spelling mistakes.

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