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

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  • ZellZell Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Minor tweaks -- change font and language settings.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Zell wrote: »
    Minor tweaks -- change font and language settings.

    Thanks, but I don't see an option to disable the spellchecker completely.

    A very minor thing that's confusing me is the placement of the refresh button. In IE it's to the right of the address bar.

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  • Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Coming from Firefox it's not an issue for me.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So, just got ahold of it and I'm using it now.

    The UI looks really nice under Vista (but then, so does Firefox if you install Glasser), but I'm worried that it'll look really shitty under Linux.

    I really like how I can resize the message box that I'm typing in, and detaching and reattaching tabs from/to a window is pretty cool. Unfortunately, using (for instance) ctrl-I to get italic text in vBulletin (e.g. here) doesn't work anymore. But I guess it's a beta.

    I need my AdblockPlus+EasyList, though. I can't stand to try and watch The Daily Show online without it. Also, you don't realize how much you miss Firefox's all-page zoom until you're back in the fucking stone age with text-only zoom.

    edit: porn mode is also a nice touch.

    edit 2: whoa, Javascript is fucking fast in this browser, and once this thing goes open-source, every other (open-source) browser needs to steal whatever engine it's using.

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    You can get the source for it if the damn SVN server will stay up for long enough. It crapped out on me about 1/3 of the way into the checkout. And the source for v8, looks like it's not having the same stability issues. You can download it right now. Here.

    [edit] Chromium developer home page

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  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Damnit can we get an OS X version yesterday please

    I didn't have a chance to play with it at work on the Windows laptops.

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    When we can get the source I'm going to start building it. If people are interested I can start distributing those unofficial builds.

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  • ZetxZetx 🐧 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    iTunesIsEvil wrote: »
    When we can get the source I'm going to start building it. If people are interested I can start distributing those unofficial builds.

    Do you have any ideas on how these unofficial builds will differ from the official ones?

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    There's the possibility they'd be out sooner than "we don't want to give ourselves an artificial deadline date". Other than that? Not... not really.

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  • SudsSuds Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I would love for add ons to be added.

    I really miss FireFTP.

    That said, I've switched to Chrome, it's the future.

    I'll use Firefox for what I need it for, and eventually I'm sure it'll be replaced completely.

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I don't get it, why doesn't Chrome import my Opera bookmarks/cookies :(

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Uhhh so guys, I don't get why the download button in the OP isn't working. Interesting. I click the link, and do install and nothing in either FF or IE.

    EDIT: Okay nvm, I got a working link: Stange. that was like the first broken thing from google I have ever experienced.

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  • ZetxZetx 🐧 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    iTunesIsEvil wrote: »
    There's the possibility they'd be out sooner than "we don't want to give ourselves an artificial deadline date". Other than that? Not... not really.

    Somehow that hadn't crossed my mind yet. Good point.

    @Impersonator: It's a beta? ololol ;p

    @Lucky: That link doesn't work... Google forgot about it or something :P This worked for me

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Zetx wrote: »
    @Impersonator: It's a beta? ololol ;p

    RAGE

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  • SudsSuds Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oh man, I miss find as you type...

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  • ZetxZetx 🐧 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Honestly, I just use del.icio.us for my bookmarks.. of course that means I want an addon...

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Suds wrote: »
    Oh man, I miss find as you type...

    I love it in Opera D: I feel you...

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  • piLpiL Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    There are tabs over my bar--what's going on!? :)

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Wow guys, well first off I gotta say that it certainly is very responsive. :D I am not going to be replacing firefox just yet nor should anyone really, but it certainly feels like a damn nice browser. Nice and zippy. :D

    If only the launch icon wasn't fugly.

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  • JensenJensen Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I like it, it's fast, and has some neat features. Just bring on the addons and stuff, already!

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  • Dark ShroudDark Shroud Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    This thing is fugly, and I say that as an IE & Opera user. The only real thing here is the javascript engine and I can see how it could be tripped up big time with a faulty javascript.

    And then there are the privacy issues that are popping up, and not just what you disable when you download it. In short they continue to record your searches and what sites you visit without an time limit on the data.

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  • Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I could see making the tabs and the buttons/address bar a little smaller, but other than that the UI looks nice to me.

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Hey guys, I can't believe how fast runescape is. :D



    Wait, just kidding. >_>;

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  • SudsSuds Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The UI actually takes up less space than Firefox does for me, yet it looks as though it takes more. Weird.

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  • SudsSuds Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I find that scrolling with my mousewheel is a whole lot faster now, probably because the webpages load so much faster, so I'm not scrolling while parts below are still loading. I've had to adjust my mouse wheel scroll speed.

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  • exisexis Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm not sure how I feel about tabs being at the top. It's not really any worse, but I don't see any benefit to it, and it feels a bit weird at first.

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  • steeefsteeef Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Seems like a lot of the complaints are regarding things that could be added in future plugins. I don't know that it'll be my default browser, as I'm pretty tied to a bunch of different Firefox plugins, but I'll certainly keep an eye on it. So far it's definitely faster than Firefox.

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  • exisexis Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Suds wrote: »
    I find that scrolling with my mousewheel is a whole lot faster now, probably because the webpages load so much faster, so I'm not scrolling while parts below are still loading. I've had to adjust my mouse wheel scroll speed.

    Scrolling does jump a lot further. It looks like at least twice as far as firefox, as far as I can tell. I like it, I hope they'll make it adjustable though.

    edit: Wow it's strange browsing websites I've been using forever and seeing ads and banners I'd forgotten were there.

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  • ZetxZetx 🐧 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    It's strange. I only just realized that there isn't a File menu and so on...

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  • The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Just something I noticed (maybe discussed?); some peoples steam ID's are showing and some show as broken links. They're all the steamcommunity.com ones too.

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  • ZetxZetx 🐧 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The two I just checked on page 6 are actually 404s on Sud's site... probably because the user(s) didn't recreate their sig. It's just blank on Firefox.

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  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I can't scroll back up after I scroll down via my scroll button-ma-gigger. I feel that's an issue. Ooh - the spell checker is kind of cool though.

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Has anyone made ANY addons for Chrome yet?

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  • Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Zetx wrote: »
    The two I just checked on page 6 are actually 404s on Sud's site... probably because the user(s) didn't recreate their sig. It's just blank on Firefox.

    That's a weird issue I've been having. I had one of his sigs for a while and it worked fine but has stopped for some reason :(
    That_Guy wrote: »
    Has anyone made ANY addons for Chrome yet?
    The beta started today. I'm gonna guess no.

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Shorn Scrotum Man wrote: »
    Zetx wrote: »
    The two I just checked on page 6 are actually 404s on Sud's site... probably because the user(s) didn't recreate their sig. It's just blank on Firefox.

    That's a weird issue I've been having. I had one of his sigs for a while and it worked fine but has stopped for some reason :(
    That_Guy wrote: »
    Has anyone made ANY addons for Chrome yet?
    The beta started today. I'm gonna guess no.

    But that was, like, hours ago. This is the internet. The place forimmediate gratification.

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  • exisexis Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Huh, I just noticed this. If you Ctrl+F for something, Chrome draws yellow lines on your scrollbar to show where on the page that term occurs. Nifty.

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  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    iTunesIsEvil wrote: »
    When we can get the source I'm going to start building it. If people are interested I can start distributing those unofficial builds.

    DO IT

    DO IT MOTHERFUCKER

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  • BeckBeck Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Is there a hotkey to scroll between tabs?

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  • exisexis Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Beck wrote: »
    Is there a hotkey to scroll between tabs?

    Ctrl + Page Up/Down.

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  • MumblyfishMumblyfish Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    My experience with Chrome thus far is that it is noticably slower than Opera 9.50, on anything from plain text files to horrendously coded crimes of JavaScript.

    Quite disappointing. If Chrome doesn't have the speed advantage, what does it have?

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