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.
There's also the "Sing out" bit and a missing comma. :P
Also, there's the liberal the use of Futura, which I don't think Google's ever used. Anywhere. The UI looks like something pretending to be the Chrome UI, the icons are all wrong (apart from Chrome and Calendar's) and "G-app" isn't something Google's used.
And "click to add bloobies"? :winky:
e: Also, as a more direct reply - if the Chrome OS team's actually done this, they obviously put a fair bit of effort into flashy-ing it up, but not spelling properly? Like all the other dozen or so Chrome OS screenshots and videos floating about, this one is fairly fake. It's just that more people seem to have picked up on this one.
What surprises me is that it took them two months to pick up on this particular one.
I don't understand the big deal about requiring a Google account. If you want an open environment, build your own operating system
If you're in a multi user environment you don't want your users logging in to google, you want them logging into your own servers. Of course, chromeos is aimed at netbook users at first. Though I expect Google to push into business at some point.
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I don't understand the big deal about requiring a Google account. If you want an open environment, build your own operating system
If you're in a multi user environment you don't want your users logging in to google, you want them logging into your own servers. Of course, chromeos is aimed at netbook users at first. Though I expect Google to push into business at some point.
Umm.. Google's business services ARE tied to google accounts. Business gmail, and google office are all accessed through their gateway.
I can almost 1000% guarantee that they aren't going to let you plug in to active / open directory, but instead into their own ecosystem.
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I don't understand the big deal about requiring a Google account. If you want an open environment, build your own operating system
If you're in a multi user environment you don't want your users logging in to google, you want them logging into your own servers. Of course, chromeos is aimed at netbook users at first. Though I expect Google to push into business at some point.
Umm.. Google's business services ARE tied to google accounts. Business gmail, and google office are all accessed through their gateway.
I can almost 1000% guarantee that they aren't going to let you plug in to active / open directory, but instead into their own ecosystem.
Not every business would want their authentication system tied into Googles. A lot of companies may like chromeos over windows but may be turned off from it, if it requires a google account to even use the os.
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I don't understand the big deal about requiring a Google account. If you want an open environment, build your own operating system
If you're in a multi user environment you don't want your users logging in to google, you want them logging into your own servers. Of course, chromeos is aimed at netbook users at first. Though I expect Google to push into business at some point.
Umm.. Google's business services ARE tied to google accounts. Business gmail, and google office are all accessed through their gateway.
I can almost 1000% guarantee that they aren't going to let you plug in to active / open directory, but instead into their own ecosystem.
Not every business would want their authentication system tied into Googles. A lot of companies may like chromeos over windows but may be turned off from it, if it requires a google account to even use the os.
then google's Cloud OS isn't for them. They could always use ubuntu and get all the google os benefits through a web browser.
This isn't being aimed at corporate, as far as I can tell, but small businesses could benefit.
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Version: 4.0.212.1 for Macintosh and 4.0.213.1 for Windows and Linux.
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* Extension shelf (that weird gray box at the bottom) is only displayed if you have extensions installed.
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Version: 4.0.212.1 for Macintosh and 4.0.213.1 for Windows and Linux.
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Mac
* Extension shelf (that weird gray box at the bottom) is only displayed if you have extensions installed.
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Extension shelf? So, if in Chrome 4 (when it arrives proper) you have an extension installed you have to put up with a big border thing at the bottom of the window? That would annoy me very, very quickly. Surely it's better to have say an Extensions/Addons button next to the address bar.
EDIT: Just tried Chromium 4 on my mac, I'm amazed Google still hasn't added proper cookie handling in there.
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Version: 4.0.212.1 for Macintosh and 4.0.213.1 for Windows and Linux.
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Mac
* Extension shelf (that weird gray box at the bottom) is only displayed if you have extensions installed.
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Extension shelf? So, if in Chrome 4 (when it arrives proper) you have an extension installed you have to put up with a big border thing at the bottom of the window? That would annoy me very, very quickly. Surely it's better to have say an Extensions/Addons button next to the address bar.
EDIT: Just tried Chromium 4 on my mac, I'm amazed Google still hasn't added proper cookie handling in there.
Only if you have toolstrip extensions installed (there are three types - toolstrips, page actions and content scripts). It's not actually as bad as in contraband's screenies, at least in Windows:
There's a new command line switch in the latest dev channel update that lets you move toolstrip extensions up to the bookmarks bar, --show-extensions-on-top. It only works when the bookmarks bar's docked - the extensions aren't shown on the New Tab page. The result:
Has anyone else tried to Chrome Framework for IE plug-in?
I've been using a pipeline mod in IE since IE6 to the present IE8. So rendering speed hasn't been that big of an issue for me. However the Chrome Framework did seem to smooth rendering. The downside is it started crashing IE every little while; tab and even downloads would just crash on me.
Two questions:
1: Did Chrome remove AdSweep when the version with an extension manager came out, or am I missing something?
2: Has anyone tried Ad Muncher?
Two questions:
1: Did Chrome remove AdSweep when the version with an extension manager came out, or am I missing something?
2: Has anyone tried Ad Muncher?
Been using Ad Muncher for years, and I've had nothing but good experience with it.
Stats from my current installation:
Ad Muncher Usage Statistics for v4.73 Beta Build 31306/2623
Adverts removed by Ad Muncher: 317,546
Approximate bandwidth saved: 2,480 MB
Counter started: februar 15, 2009
Google Chrome doesn't seem to want to stream video anymore. As in, if I open a MPG or a WMV file, instead of just auto streaming it in the browser, it now starts downloading it.
I haven't changed anything that I know of, just regular updates to Windows. I'm up to date in the dev channel, and running Win 7 Ultimate. It just recently stopped streaming video a few days ago. Any ideas?
Has anyone with Javascript competency checked out the new AdSweep? It checks online for ad definitions. It's easy enough to modify it to grab the definitions file from my own server where I can verify it, but I've checked the script as carefully as I know how. My concern is security, since Chrome said it will have access to my "private data," though the nature and depth of this private data is left vague.
So, who's running chrome on Linux? Worth it? Faster than vanilla Firefox ?
Unfortunately*, it's significantly faster. Better draw time, better start up time, better everything, especially if you run JS heavy websites/applications. Just be sure to be running the ppa nightly builds, not the default 3.0.
Google Chrome doesn't seem to want to stream video anymore. As in, if I open a MPG or a WMV file, instead of just auto streaming it in the browser, it now starts downloading it.
I haven't changed anything that I know of, just regular updates to Windows. I'm up to date in the dev channel, and running Win 7 Ultimate. It just recently stopped streaming video a few days ago. Any ideas?
Perhaps Google's changed something and it's accidentally buggered up support for in-browser streaming. I've had in-browser streaming work and not work (mostly the latter) on-and-off for a while now.
I like how simple they make it seem in this video. Even my mom could understand it.
I like how that video was actually came to fruition after some dude felt like he wanted to explain Google Wave and he mentions (okay cmon google, send me an invite already). Looks like they did one better and hired him to do the Google OS video. ;3
God, has anyone successfully downloaded Chrome OS from www.gdgt.com ? I've been trying to download the USB-bootable version for hours but to no avail, the download always fails.
So, Chrome OS. I could take a browser I don't particularly care for, and make that the only way to interact with my computer. So far I am not exactly blown away. Also there are some optimized BIOSes that can boot Win7 from an SSD on a laptop in seconds, so really starting quickly is not a huge, unique advantage.
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So, Chrome OS. I could take a browser I don't particularly care for, and make that the only way to interact with my computer. So far I am not exactly blown away. Also there are some optimized BIOSes that can boot Win7 from an SSD on a laptop in seconds, so really starting quickly is not a huge, unique advantage.
As someone who loves the Chrome browser, this sounds amazing for my netbook. So like Cyvros said, it's probably just not for you.
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Also, there's the liberal the use of Futura, which I don't think Google's ever used. Anywhere. The UI looks like something pretending to be the Chrome UI, the icons are all wrong (apart from Chrome and Calendar's) and "G-app" isn't something Google's used.
And "click to add bloobies"? :winky:
e: Also, as a more direct reply - if the Chrome OS team's actually done this, they obviously put a fair bit of effort into flashy-ing it up, but not spelling properly? Like all the other dozen or so Chrome OS screenshots and videos floating about, this one is fairly fake. It's just that more people seem to have picked up on this one.
What surprises me is that it took them two months to pick up on this particular one.
If you're in a multi user environment you don't want your users logging in to google, you want them logging into your own servers. Of course, chromeos is aimed at netbook users at first. Though I expect Google to push into business at some point.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
Umm.. Google's business services ARE tied to google accounts. Business gmail, and google office are all accessed through their gateway.
I can almost 1000% guarantee that they aren't going to let you plug in to active / open directory, but instead into their own ecosystem.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Not every business would want their authentication system tied into Googles. A lot of companies may like chromeos over windows but may be turned off from it, if it requires a google account to even use the os.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
This isn't being aimed at corporate, as far as I can tell, but small businesses could benefit.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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PAX Prime 2014 Buttoneering!
Extension shelf? So, if in Chrome 4 (when it arrives proper) you have an extension installed you have to put up with a big border thing at the bottom of the window? That would annoy me very, very quickly. Surely it's better to have say an Extensions/Addons button next to the address bar.
EDIT: Just tried Chromium 4 on my mac, I'm amazed Google still hasn't added proper cookie handling in there.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
There's a new command line switch in the latest dev channel update that lets you move toolstrip extensions up to the bookmarks bar, --show-extensions-on-top. It only works when the bookmarks bar's docked - the extensions aren't shown on the New Tab page. The result:
I've been using a pipeline mod in IE since IE6 to the present IE8. So rendering speed hasn't been that big of an issue for me. However the Chrome Framework did seem to smooth rendering. The downside is it started crashing IE every little while; tab and even downloads would just crash on me.
Dunno if there was much discussion of it in this thread, there was a seperate thread for it.
Here ya go: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=96191
Yes it was enabled, until I disabled it. I'm not the only one whose has problems with it crashing IE either.
Good to know!
1: Did Chrome remove AdSweep when the version with an extension manager came out, or am I missing something?
2: Has anyone tried Ad Muncher?
Stats from my current installation:
Adverts removed by Ad Muncher: 317,546
Approximate bandwidth saved: 2,480 MB
Counter started: februar 15, 2009
Google Chrome doesn't seem to want to stream video anymore. As in, if I open a MPG or a WMV file, instead of just auto streaming it in the browser, it now starts downloading it.
I haven't changed anything that I know of, just regular updates to Windows. I'm up to date in the dev channel, and running Win 7 Ultimate. It just recently stopped streaming video a few days ago. Any ideas?
I've got one of the recent nightly builds and it's running perfectly, even inside a VM.
Unfortunately*, it's significantly faster. Better draw time, better start up time, better everything, especially if you run JS heavy websites/applications. Just be sure to be running the ppa nightly builds, not the default 3.0.
*I love my Firefox.
Same. There are a couple of extensions that I can't live without, so I have a left screen chrome/right screen firefox set up.
Anyone?
I hope I am not in the wrong thread with this ... if so, please direct me to the Chrome OS one
I like how simple they make it seem in this video. Even my mom could understand it.
I like how that video was actually came to fruition after some dude felt like he wanted to explain Google Wave and he mentions (okay cmon google, send me an invite already). Looks like they did one better and hired him to do the Google OS video. ;3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDu2A3WzQpo
Notice the end credits: Epipheo studios.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTFfl7AjNfI
As someone who loves the Chrome browser, this sounds amazing for my netbook. So like Cyvros said, it's probably just not for you.