Comments on: Google Chrome

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:49:00 +0000

I've been using Chrome for a few months and find it really quick. I tried Firefox but didn't consider it that much quicker than IE, and didn't really use extensions much to find the benefit.

On the subject of opening tabs in the background, I think if you click the scroll-wheel on a link it opens but leaves the focus on the current page.

By: Opera Anyone ? | Excel & VBA - da Tab Is On

Opera Anyone ? | Excel & VBA - da Tab Is On — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:48:00 +0000

[...] like I am not the only one suffering from browse fatigue. Excel guru Dick Kusleika recently made the shift from Firefox to Chrome and he wasn’t very impressed. I myself have [...]

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:14:00 +0000

Alt+Down Arrow does not open drop down lists.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:39:00 +0000

Its all about dual-wielding browsers:

Chrome for personal browsing - really fast, looks great and conserves the most page real estate (until the download bar pops up!)

Firefox for work - advanced config settings with loads of scripts and plugins

I love them both for their individual strengths but neither are that great for the alternative task.

By: gruff999

gruff999 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:47:00 +0000

I've used Chrome since shortly after it came out. I find I.E. slow, now I'm reaching 40 every second is precious! I read Googles online cartoon style pamphlet about how and why Chrome came into being, interesting to read about the 'under-the-hood' stuff like the auto-testing against their vast archive of web-pages.

I understand there will be a Google O.S. coming out (also called Chrome ??). And I'm intrigued by Google aiming to be an Apple-like competitor to Microsoft on that level.

I'm not a fan of cloud computing but maybe a freeware O.S. as stable and well supported as XP could shake things up a little...

By: fzz

fzz — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:40:00 +0000

Chrome may be getting add-ons, but it’ll take time to catch up with FF. I tried Chrome last weekend. It may be a bit quicker, but it’s not yet for me. Uninstalled it Tuesday.

By: dcardno

dcardno — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:46:00 +0000

I’ve been on FF since I first heard of it – probably version 1.x. I was disappointed with the upgrade to version 3.0 and tried other browsers – Chrome, Opera, and even the current IE. I wasn’t impressed enough with any of them to move off FF, even with my dissatisfaction with FF. Maybe it’s time for another look at Chrome

By: Adam Howitt

Adam Howitt — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:33:00 +0000

Hey Chip – noticed your comment about WalkJogRun.net. I’ve tested in IE, FF, Safari and Chrome consistently and not seen issues – please give them a test again and let me know what isn’t working. Hate to think 98% of the browsers out there can’t use parts of the site.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:28:00 +0000

I started using Chrome with the first release and it immediately displaced Firefox as my main browser.

Firefox annoys with the gradual memory bloat & slowdown that it seems unable to shake, the slowness of its initial loading, the fact it insists on restarting to update itself almost every session and the fact that it's never been as stable as it should really be on any of my PCs.

Chrome, on the other hand, manages its memory much better (Shockwave is almost always to blame if its memory footprint is out of control - easily rectified using the task manager, and hardly Google's fault), starts with even 10+ tabs in a second or two, updates in the background and, since about v2.x, seems to be at least as stable as any other browser. On my old T41 laptop it allowed me to browse effectively where FF just ground to a halt with any more than about 4 tabs open.

Another nice thing about Chrome is that, out of the box, you get the same elegant UI and 'it just works' setup which means that across multiple machines (I regularly use five different PCs) I don't have to tweak and install add-ins to get it working in a pleasant fashion - they all work just the same.

All the FF plugins I thought I couldn't live without (ad/script blocks, FireFTP etc.) turned out not to be as essential as I once thought, although now with Chrome v4.x add-ins are finally supported out of beta and seem to be maturing very quickly so I might give them a whirl.

I still have FF installed, but only really use it to login to the same sites with different logins (e.g. business Ebay account in FF, personal Ebay account in Chrome). I can't remember the last time a site didn't render properly in Chrome.

By: geoff

geoff — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:49:00 +0000

I've been using Chrome almost exclusively for several months now on all my home PCs, ever since the Linux beta was released. I sometimes miss a couple of the extensions I used regularly in Firefox, but Chrome is definitely faster at startup and loading pages and less of a memory hog. The Chrome Task Manager is in my opinion a brilliant idea, as it provides per-process visibility of memory and CPU usage.

I won't be going back to FF anytime soon...