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

RichardTauber

But I want a seperate one

El Guaco

For the most part I'm finding that it is faster, and other times I will notice that one of tabs (or processes) is just chugging away and bringing my system to a crawl for seemingly no reason at all. There have been several occasions where I had to kill a tab to get use of my computer back. Odd.

Ronen

RichardTauber wrote: »

But I want a seperate one

You learn to live with it. It actually works quite well.

Cyvros

I just tried viewing source for the first time in Chrome. Oh, it's so much better than in Firefox. I just wish that it had the kind of MDI/TDI that Opera has (actually, which does Opera use?).

wunderbar

Cyvros wrote: »

RichardTauber wrote: »

Uhm, I would be using Chrome if it had a google search-bar... I haven't seen any screenshots with that particular feature which is ironic. So I guess my question is: is there a way to get a firefox-style google search-bar in chrome?

It's integrated into the address bar, which has been dubbed the "Omni Bar". More details, including a woefully short video!

EDIT: Crap, beaten. Twice.

and you know what, sadly FF2 and 3, IE7, IE8, opera, all have search built into the address bar as well, they've just always had a separate bar. I honestly can't remember the last time I used the separate search bar in firefox anyway.

Cyvros

wunderbar wrote: »

Cyvros wrote: »

RichardTauber wrote: »

Uhm, I would be using Chrome if it had a google search-bar... I haven't seen any screenshots with that particular feature which is ironic. So I guess my question is: is there a way to get a firefox-style google search-bar in chrome?

It's integrated into the address bar, which has been dubbed the "Omni Bar". More details, including a woefully short video!

EDIT: Crap, beaten. Twice.

and you know what, sadly FF2 and 3, IE7, IE8, opera, all have search built into the address bar as well, they've just always had a separate bar. I honestly can't remember the last time I used the separate search bar in firefox anyway.

I'm pretty much the same. My Fx toolbar is just the back/forward buttons and the address bar - I use search keywords for everything. Was I relieved when I saw that Chrome has search keywords, too.

Akinos

Ronen wrote: »

RichardTauber wrote: »

But I want a seperate one

You learn to live with it. It actually works quite well.

Yeah, I was weirded out at first, but it's actually really, really awesome.

TheCrumblyCracker

Is it possible to switch Chrome to use Quicktime instead of WMP for videos?

Daedalus

So I noticed Java isn't working.

wunderbar

apparently they noticed that copy and pasting their standard EULA doesnt' work in the case of Chrome, they're backing down and removing the controversial part of the EULA

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10031703-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware

Mugenmidget

Daedalus wrote: »

So I noticed Java isn't working.

You need to go here and get Java SE 6 Update 10 RC:

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea.jsp

At least that's what I had to do...

Barrakketh

Daedalus wrote: »

So I noticed Java isn't working.

That's not a bug, it's a feature.

iTunesIsEvil

ba-zing!

Erandus

Ok, I was sold until I just now realized you cannot hold down the wheel-click and use it to zip up and down the page.

What the fuck, Google.

Cyvros

Erandus wrote: »

Ok, I was sold until I just now realized you cannot hold down the wheel-click and use it to zip up and down the page.

What the fuck, Google.

I just noticed this post that seems to explain things:

Zell wrote: »

Full page zoom and autoscroll are in WebKit nightlies, so there's hope for that if Google Chrome keeps WebKit updated.

Oh, they'd better. *shakes fist*

jonxp

Erandus wrote: »

Ok, I was sold until I just now realized you cannot hold down the wheel-click and use it to zip up and down the page.

What the fuck, Google.

Webkit problem!

It's been fixed in newer builds of Webkit, and so should be patched soon.

Cameron_Talley

Erandus wrote: »

Ok, I was sold until I just now realized you cannot hold down the wheel-click and use it to zip up and down the page.

What the fuck, Google.

I think that's a Webkit thing...don't think it's in Safari, either.

In any case, I'm flabbergasted why people even like that...I hate it when I accidently hit the middle button and then the page starts scrolling around for no reason. Gah...

Erandus

Well, I don't hit it by accident, hurf durf.

Ok seriously, I just like it because I can zip up or down to the top of a forum page to hit the link for a root-level forum wihout really moving my hands. Minimal effort you see.

Cyvros

Cool, build snapshots! Looks like it's still just Windows binaries for now, but I like this. Now, to test them.

ArcSyn

Scrolling with my trackpad seems to do 1/3-1/2 a page at a time, unlike my mouse's scrollwheel which only does about 3-5 lines at a time. Very annoying, since it doesn't seem to have any specific setting in the program. But it's beta, I can't complain too much.

EDIT: I slowed my trackpad settings in Windows to the slowest scrolling, which has corrected the scrolling in Chrome, but we shall see how annoying it makes scrolling in any other program.

TheUnsane1

Erandus wrote: »

Well, I don't hit it by accident, hurf durf.

Ok seriously, I just like it because I can zip up or down to the top of a forum page to hit the link for a root-level forum wihout really moving my hands. Minimal effort you see.

So it's like the Home key, but lazy. Personally I have home and end bound to side mouse buttons for web browsers and I think it's worlds better but I guess if you don't have those.

Suds

I use End a lot on these forums if I'm pretty sure there is just one new post, or I go to a new page and I realize I missed some of the bottom posts on the page before.

Zell

The history function in this browser is actually usable. Let's you browse for the exact time. Not like the other browsers which only sort by days. Full history search is nice too but Opera did that first.

I can see the downloads system getting confusing for some users though, and it seems it just cancels downloads without asking when you close the browser...?

Also, as for autoscroll, I just middle click and move the mouse slightly down and I have a page scrolling at a readable speed without me ever having to touch the mouse again until I've finished reading the page. On pages with a lot of text this is very helpful. I can see why Firefox users would think autoscroll is useless though, I totally hate Gecko's version of it too.

Haikira

Just grabbed it, liking it so far. Its easy on the eyes anyway.

Gonna test run it for a while and see what I think, but so far I'm sold.

RandomEngy

Man, this speed test is just bonkers:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html?part=rss

Firefox: time to steal V8, stat.

Haikira

The tools pop up for the forums wont work for me on chrome, any ideas?

Mai-Kero

I really wish I knew why crome didn't adjust to my theme like any other window or program.

Randall_Flagg

they're at the bottom

YesNoMu

I like some things, like the tabs being separate processes, and especially Incognito (I would have loved this as a 13-year-old, if you get my drift). But I don't really like the single bar-- I like separate search and address bars, and I prefer FF's address bar for finding specific pages I've been to. And it isn't nearly as customizable as FF either, which is a big minus. But I'll give it some time and see how it turns out. Best case, there's a huge browser war and they all get better.

LoneIgadzra

I really like the auto-population of my "new tab" page. It's the same feature as Opera, but in Opera I barely bother with Speed Dial because I just can't decide which pages should go on it.

Suds

I'm just liking this more and more. It feels right.

Nibble

YesNoMu wrote: »

I like some things, like the tabs being separate processes, and especially Incognito (I would have loved this as a 13-year-old, if you get my drift). But I don't really like the single bar-- I like separate search and address bars, and I prefer FF's address bar for finding specific pages I've been to. And it isn't nearly as customizable as FF either, which is a big minus. But I'll give it some time and see how it turns out. Best case, there's a huge browser war and they all get better.

You can use Chrome's address bar to find pages you have previously visited, too.

noobert

Suds wrote: »

I'm just liking this more and more. It feels right.

Akinos

YesNoMu wrote: »

I like some things, like the tabs being separate processes, and especially Incognito (I would have loved this as a 13-year-old, if you get my drift). But I don't really like the single bar-- I like separate search and address bars, and I prefer FF's address bar for finding specific pages I've been to. And it isn't nearly as customizable as FF either, which is a big minus. But I'll give it some time and see how it turns out. Best case, there's a huge browser war and they all get better.

They talk about this in the comic. They give credit to Mozilla, and encourage their "competition" to take advantage of Chrome being open source.

As they put it, they want the internet to be as good as possible, because Google lives there.

ArcSyn

Is there a way to spoof other browsers with Chrome yet?

Also, do I have to reinstall Java to get it to work?

squirly

I want to use it as my primary browser but there's so many things that I dislike, wish were possible, wish were better, etc.

- Permanent download bar across the bottom
- Locking tabs
- Omnibar absolutely sucks compared to IE8's
- Different searches in the address box (Like Opera).. unless this is possible?
- The tab shape is ugly
- A title bar
- A status bar
- Ad block
- Tab 'grouping' that IE8 introduced
- Opera's 'Link'
- Individual search box.. or a better address bar

.. and so on.

jonxp

squirly wrote: »

I want to use it as my primary browser but there's so many things that I dislike, wish were possible, wish were better, etc.

- Permanent download bar across the bottom
- Locking tabs
- Omnibar absolutely sucks compared to IE8's
- Different searches in the address box (Like Opera).. unless this is possible?
- The tab shape is ugly
- A title bar
- A status bar
- Ad block
- Tab 'grouping' that IE8 introduced
- Opera's 'Link'
- Individual search box.. or a better address bar

.. and so on.

In short: It should be Opera.

squirly

jonxp wrote: »

squirly wrote: »

I want to use it as my primary browser but there's so many things that I dislike, wish were possible, wish were better, etc.

- Permanent download bar across the bottom
- Locking tabs
- Omnibar absolutely sucks compared to IE8's
- Different searches in the address box (Like Opera).. unless this is possible?
- The tab shape is ugly
- A title bar
- A status bar
- Ad block
- Tab 'grouping' that IE8 introduced
- Opera's 'Link'
- Individual search box.. or a better address bar

.. and so on.

In short: It should be Opera.

More or less. I like the way Opera 'handles' things like middle-clicking on the tab to make a new tab -- lots of small things like that.

But I like the speed from Chrome (And it does a few things better like searching on a page) and the features from IE8 (Separate processes, address bar, grouping, etc). Firefox I no longer care for aside from momentarily missing some extensions like Scrapbook which I easily live without.

I wish I had the time to just make my own perfect browser based on WebKit. Hell, maybe even use Chrome as a base and just heavily modify all those things to how I like them.

Oh, and Opera's speed dial and the way it handles closed tabs is better.

jonxp

squirly wrote: »

jonxp wrote: »

squirly wrote: »

I want to use it as my primary browser but there's so many things that I dislike, wish were possible, wish were better, etc.

- Permanent download bar across the bottom
- Locking tabs
- Omnibar absolutely sucks compared to IE8's
- Different searches in the address box (Like Opera).. unless this is possible?
- The tab shape is ugly
- A title bar
- A status bar
- Ad block
- Tab 'grouping' that IE8 introduced
- Opera's 'Link'
- Individual search box.. or a better address bar

.. and so on.

In short: It should be Opera.

More or less. I like the way Opera 'handles' things like middle-clicking on the tab to make a new tab -- lots of small things like that.

But I like the speed from Chrome (And it does a few things better like searching on a page) and the features from IE8 (Separate processes, address bar, grouping, etc). Firefox I no longer care for aside from momentarily missing some extensions like Scrapbook which I easily live without.

I wish I had the time to just make my own perfect browser based on WebKit. Hell, maybe even use Chrome as a base and just heavily modify all those things to how I like them.

Oh, and Opera's speed dial and the way it handles closed tabs is better.

It does support add-ons, so we'll have to see what people make of it.

Nibble

squirly wrote: »

- Different searches in the address box (Like Opera).. unless this is possible?

After you have performed a search on a particular site, just type the first letter(s) of the site into the address bar, until you see it in autocomplete; then hit tab to change it to a search bar for that particular site.