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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => Hobbies and Recreation => Computer and Electronics => Topic started by: Petrie. on September 03, 2008, 07:04:08 PM
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Was released as a public beta two days ago, and some people have tried out this browser. Its pretty simplistic, and is fast. Can't stand the bookmarks (couldn't import from html or txt file) and there's some wording in the user agreement which just creepy.
Nice attempt, maybe it'll add some chrome and be a worthy contender then. :p
http://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=CeDn_mB...m_campaign%3Den (http://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=CeDn_mBa_SP6MFo-yefP-6TyFru103cWqmwnB2ZzZExABIMFUUNOR9e4EYH2qBAlP0BuBjR8PsfA&num=1&sig=AGiWqtzKtjPR7SG2ebHqL5nZIHXUdfiD2w&q=http://www.google.com/chrome/index.html%3Fhl%3Den%26brand%3DCHMG%26utm_source%3Den-hpp%26utm_medium%3Dhpp%26utm_campaign%3Den)
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Apparently google changed the user agreement, so I'm not so concerned as much with it now.
Works fine on these boards.
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Google is a worthy contender in today's market. It's stock has had a 20% jump in the past year. Their stock before that jump was around $400-something dollars. It raised their stock value tremendously. I mean, a 20% jump in today's market is amazing, no matter how the stock is.
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I think I'll stick with firefox for now, though having another choice of browser isn't bad. There are bound to be some folks who will prefer it.
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Uninstalled this yesterday. I can't figure out why, but my computer processes are continually running (11% of the cpu when I'm dong nothing with the computer). Take off google chrome, cpu load goes back to 1% when doing nothing. I don't know what it installs but it takes over computer resources. its a beta, so there's probably some bug somewhere.
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LBTlover's post from a duplicate topic I've removed:
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Has anyone here tried Chrome, google's new web browser? It's still in the beta stage, but I'm impressed with its overall performance and dependability. I haven't had even one browser crash with either windows xp or windows vista. This is very good for a browser that's still in beta stage. I suggest everyone download it. Google is a HUGE organization. This will soon be the worlds best browser. It's almost there now. Instead of explaining everything to you in this thread, why not download it yourself? It's a very small download and takes up less than 10mb of space on your hard drive. There's no reason not to try it. It starts a million times faster than either Firefox, IE, or Opera and is pretty stable. You may download it by clicking the link below:
http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?hl=...utm_campaign=en (http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?hl=...utm_campaign=en)
There is one problem with the software I've noticed. On newer laptops that have the scroll on the mouse pad, it won't scroll up. I'm sure they'll have it fixed in no time though.
EDIT: Oh yeah and I'm typing this in the google chrome browser.
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Sounds like they released the beta when they should have worked on getting out all the bugs and finishing it, similar to what Microsoft does and some other companies do also.
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Well, I'm testing this out myself and this is outstanding. Heck, moving my bookmarks from Firefox was a big plus in itself. I've tested it with all of my favorite sites and it works wonderfully.
I knew Google would make a web browser someday. Took them long enough though.
And wow, even this message that I'm typing to you all is going out beautifully. However, I need to keep testing. ;)
EDIT: Oh man, just tested it out at several sites that usually take a while to get into and I can't believe the speed of this thing. It's almost instant at those places. How in the world did they do that?
Well, that does it. It's official. Google Chrome (Beta) = #1 Web Browser.
No arguing. :D
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Google Chrome has difficulty with flash applications at the moment. Don't try to go to google maps or any place else that has flash (this includes my website). It only works probably 90% of the time. When it doesn't, it spikes your CPU to insane levels. Remember though that this is a BETA people! It's pretty darned good for a beta program. Just download it, install it, and agree to let google collect usage reports. The more people do this, the faster this can become the best browser on the planet.
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Uh, noooooo. Your computer doesn't need to be calling home every ten minutes. Like I said, they need to fix that darn resource bug before I'll give it another chance, since it kept my fans running at higher speeds all the time. :mellow:
I will say one thing I did like the most--no electrical interference when playing music. Things with fancy graphics will cause a lot of problems in Firefox with my audio. Its hardly there in Opera and I didn't get a single bit of interference with Chrome. :)
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I'm not sure if I want to try the Google Chrome browser. I'm content with Opera and Firefox (on my computer).
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Google chrome is really awesome. It still has a lot of bugs, but I'm typing this in it right now. I'm allowing google to collect research reports because it's in beta and I want to help them get some things fixed.
Petrie, you don't have to let the browser phone home. It's only if you WANT it to. In fact, that feature is turned off by default. I have it enabled to help improve the browser and I think everyone with a decent computer should as well.
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I heard about it. But in the news they said one should better wait for the original version of Google Chrome. Because the beta version could have too many mistakes and there would be much space for hackers and viruses. So, I like my firefox and better wait for the original version.
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There will never be an original version if people don't install and use the beta. <_< As for hackers, that's just BS. A new system is more hacker resistant than an old one so it's more secure than any other browsers at the moment. The only thing it's got now is a few bugs, which are minor inconveniences most of the time and probably won't bother the average computer user most of the time.
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I wouldn't use a beta for SSL pages like banks or online shopping. Places like this, I didn't mind using Chrome to see how it would turn out. It looked like it does using Opera.
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As of now, I use Firefox. I used to use Safari, but something went wrong and it freezes my computer too often. I have yet to see a version of Google Chrome for Mac OS X, but when it does, I'll try it out and see how it is. Although, I have to say this about Google Chrome. It has a cool icon.
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Hmm.. Hotmail doesn't recognise the browser yet it seems.
Hey it has got a spell checker thingy.. But it's set to Dutch .. Hmm...
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That's what I hate about macs. You can never get the newest and best programs because they're almost always made for the PC first unless it was officially made by the apple company. I love the mac os, but the machines are waaaaaaaaay too expensive. Now that PCs and Macs share the same processor type, it's easy to install mac os 10.5 on a PC either through an emulator or a dual boot. I dual boot mac os 10.5 on my school laptop so I can run the video editing programs that can only be run on a mac (there's only one that won't run on a PC out of all the ones I use in my class). I just wish mac would release their OS's for PCs as well. I'm really getting sick of windows and linux just isn't a viable alternative. I'm NOT paying $2,700 for a mac when I can pay $800 and get a PC with the same specs. -_-
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I guess apple thinks they have a good reason to charge so much for their Macs. I've never understood it myself.
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Apple wants everyone to pay $2,700 for a $800 computer. That's what they want. They don't make money off the software, they make the money off the computers. That's why there's no "product activation" s*** with macs. They honestly don't give a crap if people pirate their OS's.
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There is one major gripe I do have with Google Chrome. It is too bright for my liking. According to my own observation, Firefox and Internet Explorer hold a darker color scheme than that of Google Chrome. For now, I'm back at Firefox.
Oh, and if you think it's a problem with my graphics card, no it is not, I've checked.
Once they tone it down, I'll put it back up. :)
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Could be a browser skin as well, which obviously, Chrome doesn't have yet.
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Interessting.
It works faster here at my place comparing to both IE and Firefox.
I'm going to test it out for a while! :yes
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Guess I¥m gonna try it out
My first one hundred posts :^.^: ...
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Well, I decided to try and re-download it. However, I ran into error problems with trying to execute it. I guess Google is taking care of a few things with it.
On top of that, I did find that a few people have started copying the application and having it ready for download. Whether or not they have succeeded I have yet to find out, but we'll see. Of course, what do you expect from Google? It's only THE hottest web searcher on the net. Not surprising someone would start copying the programming for their web browser.
Anyways, I'll try again some time later. Just wanted to update you guys with this.
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A nice vid with more info on Google Chrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fwNH49zuqw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fwNH49zuqw)
He definitely gives some nice information. I must admit, it's pretty neat to know how it all works. :)
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I've used Chrome for a week now, and decided to keep it.
It works billions times faster than IE and Firefox.
Atleast here it does.
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I currently run google chrome and firefox on my computers. I only use firefox when there's some java that google chrome doesn't like. Once the bugs are out of it, I'll go exclusively with google chrome. Bye bye firefox! :yes
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Okay, got it back up. Time to start the testing again. :)
EDIT: Text or language problem on Google Chrome? Do the following:
1- Click on the Tools icon.
2- Click on Options
3- In new window click on the Minor Tweaks Tab and select Change Font & Language Settings.
From there, you can change the settings in the Fonts Tab and in the Languages Tab to what you find most appropriate.
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Chrome installed again...they updated some stuff I guess. So far, no unusual cpu runtime processes which I can't figure out. :) Still refuse to use this with banking stuff, but this is definitely a step in the right direction.
Also, youtube still refuses to work. Maybe its the flash plugin but it works for Firefox and Opera....why not Chrome, you wonder considering google and youtube are joined at the hip. ^^
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With me youtube works on chrome.
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With me youtube works on chrome.
Same here.
Only but a few pages have refused, but those are pages I don't visit frequently.
For one that I visit often (GoF) it loads in no time. Just as an example. ;)
My dad had troubles with IE which weren't running at all on his PC. I solved that with Chrome. So now he's happy again, playing around with his fishing sites.
:^.^:
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Youtube works fine for me as well. I don't run into any problems, even full screen with the ones that hog Flash data.
And guess what? Google went to the trouble of creating a page on wikipedia (Yeah, the one a lot of members here don't trust.) about their browser. Remember, they themselves created it. So any false information on it is not done by Google and should be fixed immediately. Last thing we want is for Google to look bad.
Anyways, here's the page Google themselves made for their web browser:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome)
Now that they've toned it down, I'll see if my dad is willing to get it as well.
Well, see ya later! :)
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Chrome installed again...they updated some stuff I guess. So far, no unusual cpu runtime processes which I can't figure out. Still refuse to use this with banking stuff, but this is definitely a step in the right direction.
Also, youtube still refuses to work. Maybe its the flash plugin but it works for Firefox and Opera....why not Chrome, you wonder considering google and youtube are joined at the hip. ^^
Do you have Vista Petrie?
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No, I have XP. My computer's a bit squirrley if you read the topics I post every now and then. Safe and secure but things break and lock up every now and then for no apparent reason. Software just fights with one another.
Tried to see if reinstalling Flash would work. Still no response from youtube, so I don't know what the hell is wrong because it still works fine with Firefox and Opera (portable versions too that go on flash drives...not the versions that get installed!). So odd.
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I wonder if it may be some sort of software conflict, a security setting, or something.
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Its definitely a conflict somewhere, but its only if I use chrome. Like I said the portable versions of Firefox and Opera can see it and use it. You'd think chrome could too and people say chrome can load youtube stuff. So it works somewhere. :p
I doubt its security since it wouldn't work anywhere then, and that's not the case.
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I wonder what sort of conflict it could be and if you have to download flash for every browser or just one.
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I wonder what sort of conflict it could be and if you have to download flash for every browser or just one.
Didn't have to do that when I downloaded Google Chrome.
Hmm.... Graphics Card maybe?
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Graphics card wouldn't affect flash, or it wouldn't work at all.
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Could it be another browser is using an older version of flash? No idea if it would work like that or if it's even possible. Or a browser expects a certain version of flash and it's not there or does flash work on just 1 browser at a time?
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That's what I was thinking, but even a fresh install (latest and greatest) did nothing to help. That's why I'm really lost because its the only browser not finding the plugin.
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Could it be which browser is set to your default or main browser. Not sure if that would effect anything or not.
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Hmm... Come to think of it, I did change my default browser to Google Chrome before testing YouTube. Still, I don't know if that would have anything to do with it.
Dang! Wish LBTlover was here. He'd figure out something like this in a heartbeat. :(
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Okay, sorry for the double post, but I have found a new problem and I felt it better that everyone know of this.
I put up a little image that had the amount of length that exceeded the pixel limit when going left to right on another forum. I quickly found that it can't fit properly on Google Chrome. When this happens in Firefox, you are usually treated with a left and right scroll popping up. However, this doesn't happen on Google Chrome. What they basically do is remove a part of the image. Sure, means I have to properly edit it, but I find it quite the hassle in the end. -_-
I'm sure the lack of a left and right scroll popping up will cause a problem for several web pages. :(
This is an issue that REALLY needs to be fixed. Guess we all better start sending that info to Google. -_-
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If they do listen to feedback from users then they do need the information and suggestions. Not sure if email is better or if they have an official forum for chrome, or doing both.
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hi, I have the beta of Google Crome and I cannot gallows the new is Internet Explorer the hammer. :lol:
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Hmm... looks like Google Chrome is slower when it comes to downloading large files. Seriously, it took my Desktop with 4 GB of RAM and XP lite SP3... 30 minutes to download a 127 MB file. Whereas my Laptop, using Internet Explorer, having 2 GB of RAM and Windows Vista... 15 minutes to download the exact same file.
Hmm... interesting, no?
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It may have a speed cap on it for some reason.
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Hmm... looks like Google Chrome is slower when it comes to downloading large files. Seriously, it took my Desktop with 4 GB of RAM and XP lite SP3... 30 minutes to download a 127 MB file. Whereas my Laptop, using Internet Explorer, having 2 GB of RAM and Windows Vista... 15 minutes to download the exact same file.
Hmm... interesting, no?
That's not a fair comparison. Your new laptop has a MUCH faster ethernet port than your old desktop. The only way to test this for sure is to download the same file from the same COMPUTER.
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This looks really cool and all but I'm having an annoying problem with it. No matter what page I try to load, it only loads it for like 5 seconds, then it says "Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, press Reload or go to another page." Pressing Reload obviously doesn't work. Is anybody else getting this?
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This looks really cool and all but I'm having an annoying problem with it. No matter what page I try to load, it only loads it for like 5 seconds, then it says "Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, press Reload or go to another page." Pressing Reload obviously doesn't work. Is anybody else getting this?
Not me. Mine's working just fine. :)
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Ok, well I just tried it on my computer and it works fine. So I guess something just went wrong on the other computer. Well this time I didn't set it to send reports to google about my crashes or anything, so it might have been that that was crashing it. I don't really know. Aside from all that though, it's extremely fast and I absolutely love it :D
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There's one small thing that I seemed to notice that this browser does that IE doesn't. It's a really minor thing but I'm not sure if there will ever be a way to change it, or if they'll ever change it themselves. Basically before a page loads, the screen flickers white. This is really hard on the eyes when you're constantly loading up new web pages, like 3 every second. The reason I have to constantly load up new web pages is for a web-based mmorpg I play, called Outwar. I've been staring at constant flickers of bright white for the past 20 minutes and I feel like I'm going to have a seizure :p
EDIT: Ok, well I just found out that it seems to only do that bright white flicker on the Outwar website, when I click to move to a different section on the map and it has to load the new web page. Still, IE never gives this white flash, so I don't really understand it. Well like everyone said, it is still only beta, so things still have lots of room for improvement.
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All the java/flash stuff is always hard on browsers. Your cpu spikes because browsers have harder times rendering it.
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I still can't even get google maps to load properly and they only use a little bit of flash. I'd stay clear of flash apps until google chrome gets most of the bugs out of it.
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I still can't even get google maps to load properly and they only use a little bit of flash. I'd stay clear of flash apps until google chrome gets most of the bugs out of it.
I don't get why flash stuff works SO well for me though, even with Google Chrome. Seriously, I've got YouTube and other flash websites working VERY well. Even Google Maps.
I seriously don't understand WHY it works for me, but not others.
Hmm... do you think the monitor is related to it in some way?
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Does Google Chrome make this forum load faster? 'Cause I seriously have to sit here forever waiting for a new page to load.
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Flash sites work out fine with me too.
Edit: And actually chrome loads this page with me slower. Just to answer the question above.
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I seriously don't understand WHY it works for me, but not others.
What version of flash player do you have? I'm sure most of us have the most recent version and maybe that's what's incompatible with google chrome instead of the flash applications. I'm pretty sure you've got an older version on your computer.
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Does Google Chrome make this forum load faster? 'Cause I seriously have to sit here forever waiting for a new page to load.
It did for me. Try loading the pages now that I took down our fireworks.
Also, our images come from photobucket's servers, so if any of them are slow, then the images load slow, the pages load slow, etc.
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All of the flash stuff seems to work fine for me. I was just pointing out how before a page loads, the screen goes white for a split second. This seems to only happen in Google Chrome, and it's seriously hard on the eyes when you're playing a web-based game where you have to constantly load up new pages.
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I wonder why it does that. Maybe some error or style in the programming.
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I seriously don't understand WHY it works for me, but not others.
What version of flash player do you have? I'm sure most of us have the most recent version and maybe that's what's incompatible with google chrome instead of the flash applications. I'm pretty sure you've got an older version on your computer.
Um... How do you check that again? I seem to have forgotten how. :P:
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I wonder why it does that. Maybe some error or style in the programming.
I'm sure it is just the style of programming. It's such a small thing and yet such a huge inconvenience to me :p Normally nobody would even notice it, nor care about it.
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Well actually I played some webbased game and with me it doesn't flash white, but get's all black :p I guess that's a bit nicer on the eyes but I guess I know what you mean Yoshi.. :) I don't know if they're gonna fix such small stuff though.. hmm..
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Um... How do you check that again? I seem to have forgotten how.
Now that I think of it to be perfectly honest with you, I'm not sure how to do that myself. :p I've never had to check my flash version before. I've always just upgraded it anyways without checking the version. Oh well. That's what google's for. You can find out how to do it there.
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Well, looks like Google Chrome is FINALLY getting the left and right scroll installed. It only does so with some of the sites when it is required to have it, but not done so with others.
To be honest, I seriously don't understand WHY they didn't have this at the start. Frankly speaking, it's pretty much a requirement to have it. There's no excuse not to have it. -_-
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Maybe the programmers were to lazy, or overlooked it.