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The best thing about this new beta is speed — it's 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version.
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And still no mac version ...
would you use it as much as firefox anyway? i've got chrome on my pc, and i haven't opened it in... wait let me check... well it reads i used it right now; must have just registered when i opened the google chrome folder to check. but it is also listed as used 'rarely.' i haven't opened that thing since last week. google should @ least give it some good branding and simply call it chrome. it starts to get annoying to see their seal on everything; and it's a definite recipe for failure - line extension.
Is browser speed the feature Google is promoting most? I haven't heard of anything else vastly superior yet.
I will move to Chrome when they get the same add ons I have in firefox. I can't live without my add ons.
ditto
At work I haven't been able to get it to install correctly since the first beta :/ But when I'm actually doing work yeah Firefox + add ons can't be beat.
google should @ least give it some good branding and simply call it chrome. it starts to get annoying to see their seal on everything; and it's a definite recipe for failure
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Netscape Navigator
Google Chrome
Seems on par to me. Eventually folks will refer to it as Chrome.
I'll check out the new one, but I agree with some of the others that I'm hooked on Firefox due to some extensions... and the built-in spell-checker. I tried the spell-check in Chrome 1.0 and it worked horribly compared to Firefox. For my business, I require a good built-in spell checker. So until they improve that, they won't have my business.
Is browser speed the feature Google is promoting most? I haven't heard of anything else vastly superior yet.
With Chrome, I've never had a locked-up tab crash the whole browser. I can't say the same for Firefox or IE.
The common address and search window is another big plus, once you become addicted to it. It doesn't sound like a big deal, but in practice, it's a surprisingly useful improvement over using an address window for URLs and a toolbar window for search.
browser speed
Also noticed that the new Chrome supports TTF/OTF font embedding using the CSS @font-face rule.
Chrome has been my default since its public launch. I love its minimal interface, which leaves a lot of room for the actual website. Speed improvement in 2.0 is noticeable and very much welcome. And as of this version, I'm finally able to search text fields. Lovely :) But hey, I'm a google fanboy.
I've never gotten used to plugins, but I keep a version of firefox with firebug and yslow lying around just in case. Given the amount of people screaming for add-ons, I'm pretty sure we'll see those in the not-too-far future.
Also, check out these chrome experiments [chromeexperiments.com]. There's some great stuff there pushing chrome's javascript engine to its limits. Especially DOMtris [chromeexperiments.com] is quite an invention :D
It's only going to survive if they market to 'regular' web users who normally stick with IE because its convenient, and even then they've got a job on their hands.
With Chrome, I've never had a locked-up tab crash the whole browser. I can't say the same for Firefox or IE.The common address and search window is another big plus, once you become addicted to it. It doesn't sound like a big deal, but in practice, it's a surprisingly useful improvement over using an address window for URLs and a toolbar window for search.
Totally agree with everything here. Chrome never completely crashes, but the best things (although it sounds so small) is the dual search / address bar. If you use Chrome for as bit and then try using Firefox / IE you'll get annoyed that you can't search that way...
[edited by: tedster at 9:51 pm (utc) on Mar. 19, 2009]
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Right now I use Chrome as my email client (running Gmail) and browse off on using Chrome. But Firefox remains my main browser with about 80% of my time spent on FF.
I don't care if Chrome adds every add-on that FF has. the one thing that will keep me off Chrome (unless v2 has improved this) is utter and total password insecurity.
With FF and IE, I can use Roboform and have password-locked, encrypted password storage. With FF I can use native password storage and have a master password (not sure how good the native encryption is on FF).
With Chrome, there' no master password, and even if there, were, it stores your passwords as plain text and any idiot who happens to get on my computer could get in an get all my bank accounts just by cruising through my profile settings.
Until Chrome gets serious about security, it will always, sadly just be for testing.
If Roboform would integrate or Chrome would develop a good built-in manager, I would drop FF today as my primary browser.
I guess, in theory, G thinks you're only supposed to have one password. It covers your gmail account, your google checkout, your google docs and so on and on. You just remember that password and you never leave the Google environment. It's dangerous out there anyway and you don't need to go anywhere else.
G thinks you're only supposed to have one password
I love chrome, though, but does 2.0 include autofill? I can't stand not having autofill!
once people start making chrome extensions, chrome will crush firefox
(and I love my firefox, but will switch, the render engine in firefox is ancient and slow)
[edited by: amznVibe at 1:30 am (utc) on Mar. 25, 2009]
