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Old 2nd September 2008   #1 (permalink)
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Anyone installed this yet? I have and it seems okay so far. Seems sleek and works okay so far.
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man - I've had this for 2 months now, old news ......

hehe - yeah looks good, very quick and snappy, great screen area. FF3 has given me many headaches with websites not loading / timeouts etc.Am using this as default to see how we go - it is *beta* so I expect problems on the way.
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It seems ok fast enough same as IE7 64bit for me.

They have removed the clutter at the top compared with IE and FF but apart from that I don't see much difference

All though its supposed to be good for JS / AJAX related sites
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They nicked the idea of thumbnails of most popular sites displayed when you open a new tab from an FF extension that I used a while back. Was a great idea.
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Oh, the 'simpler downloads' feature is another FF add-in.

Interesting move from google if they have secured these plugins from FF's battleground.
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The only things that this brings to the table are the new javascript engine and running each tab in a separate sandboxed process - both of which should have been done a long time ago.

But there are still major problems left unaddressed - like plugins being able to punch through the sandbox.

I'm hoping these two will be adopted and improved upon by other browsers. Other than that, don't see it making a huge impact right now.
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I quite like being able to change the size of text boxes on the fly
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Call me old-fashioned, I've stuck with IE7
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It seems much quicker than both IE and Firefox for me, no major problems yet.

I imagine the uptake will be quite high now, and hence Richards original post, as I noticed it advertised on the main page of google.
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No Linux version yet, so no opportunity to try it myself, but I see there's already a PoC DoS that crashes the whole browser - something the architecture is specifically designed to avoid.

Google Chrome Browser 0.2.149.27 malicious link DoS Vulnerability
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I quite like being able to change the size of text boxes on the fly
That's been a feature of a Safari for a little while now - http://img.skitch.com/20080903-1uukn...kx5it494t9.jpg

Might give Chrome a go today - sadly, needs Windows at the moment.
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Some entertaining reading, but going by most of the legal "stand ups" in court with M$ and the like, don't think it's got a leg to stand on!

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They nicked the idea of thumbnails of most popular sites displayed when you open a new tab from an FF extension that I used a while back. Was a great idea.
Thats been in opera for a while now.
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Much much better when it comes to Ajax than any of the current crop of browsers - our traffic system uses Ajax extensively for a lot of data display and Chrome is noticeably faster. Biggest advantage over FF is that it doesn't hog anywhere near as much memory.

The EULA is a bit interesting though, although probably easy to get around, "Sorry, the IP rights belong to my employer as I was posting in their time, and they don't grant me the right to assign those rights".
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