BF2S Forums Google Chrome: Beta Web Browser

Hmm... I rather like this browser.  It has a lot of features i've never seen before in a web browser.  While at first it does look like a copy of Mozilla browser.  It has a lot of hidden goodies.

- You can expand text fields graphicly while in the browser.
- Text Fields are highlighted.
- It creates a web page based upon recently viewed web pages in the forum of box view.
- It has trouble scrolling up and down when images are involved.
- Has trouble display colors on my web site. >
- Works with all flash stuff from what I can tell.
- Its VERY fast when loading webpages and download.  I think its very well optimized to do so.
- FTP sucks...  but I guess all web browser FTPs suck. lol






I'll add more as I play with it.

Last edited by Naturn (2008-09-04 22:54:41)

My only complaint really is the way the bookmarks/favorites are handled.  Also, I think Chrome is cause me to lose internet connection randomly.(I THINK)  Besides that its really good.  I wish they would change the size of the font though on the default setting.

.Sup wrote:

I like Chrome a lot but fix the bugz plz!

<<<Bugz iz in ur Chrome screwin wif ur browser

.Sup wrote:

ebug9 wrote:

.Sup wrote:

I like Chrome a lot but fix the bugz plz!

<<<Bugz iz in ur Chrome screwin wif ur browser

Mods arrest bugz plz.

lol

Should I try Chrome or stick with FF?

.Sup wrote:

ebug9 wrote:

.Sup wrote:

Mods arrest bugz plz.

lol

Should I try Chrome or stick with FF?

Try Chrome and stick with FF.

Try Chrome and switch!

Still needs RSS support, proper bookmark management and a couple of other small things, but then it's good
Can't wait for the API

-kon

I like it - feels much faster than firefox and it is very minimalistic, which is a very big plus.

Try privoxy if you want to block ads in Chrome. I'm not using it though - it works fine, but I'm actually liking seeing some of these ads (last.fm etc.) as they're useful to me...

-kon

I miss the Home button. And status bar in left bottom corner annoys me. And why does it underlane every single word? I know I'm not that bad at English.

Zimmer wrote:

.Sup wrote:

I miss the Home button. And status bar in left bottom corner annoys me. And why does it underlane every single word? I know I'm not that bad at English.

If you had actually explored chrome, you would have seen there is an option to show the HOME BUTTON in settings.

That, and he may have the wrong language pack...?

-kon

For the time being, I will stick to Opera.

I cannot navigate webpages without Mouse Gestures, nor without being able to customise an interface I will spend a huge deal of time staring at.
This, and the fact it is 20x slower at loading pages than Opera.

However, it does have many positives- most of these based on the architecture it runs on- My browser will stay open for days, and and the end of it Opera is using 200mb of memory, with only a couple of tabs running- Chromes unique memory management fixes that, and also the things such as the beefed up Javascript engine, makes a huge deal of sense.

Other people have said the truth- Chrome has a great chance of making a top browser, since the cores of the other browsers were designed and developed with the "old" web in mind.

Titch2349 wrote:

However, it does have many positives- most of these based on the architecture it runs on- My browser will stay open for days, and and the end of it Opera is using 200mb of memory, with only a couple of tabs running- Chromes unique memory management fixes that, and also the things such as the beefed up Javascript engine, makes a huge deal of sense.

Holy crap, so that was why... I liked Opera a lot, but I was always concerned when I opened up Task Manager and saw the 200,000 next to it. Always thought that was my computer fucking up for some reason.

Yeah, the lack of mouse gestures is annoying, I keep doing the left click + move down + move right to try and close a tab, only to realise it's not working. But it's getting a bit easier to deal with. I can't really tell if it's slower than Opera, but overall, I'm liking it more than Opera now.

Last edited by Smithereener (2008-09-08 20:29:18)

Cheez wrote:

I like how Chrome imported my passwords too. That was convenient.

Agreed. That was awesome. Saved so much time.

-kon

Smithereener wrote:

Titch2349 wrote:

However, it does have many positives- most of these based on the architecture it runs on- My browser will stay open for days, and and the end of it Opera is using 200mb of memory, with only a couple of tabs running- Chromes unique memory management fixes that, and also the things such as the beefed up Javascript engine, makes a huge deal of sense.

Holy crap, so that was why... I liked Opera a lot, but I was always concerned when I opened up Task Manager and saw the 200,000 next to it. Always thought that was my computer fucking up for some reason.

Yeah, the lack of mouse gestures is annoying, I keep doing the left click + move down + move right to try and close a tab, only to realise it's not working. But it's getting a bit easier to deal with. I can't really tell if it's slower than Opera, but overall, I'm liking it more than Opera now.

Middle click on tab = quicker