google chrome is out of the beta stage!

[karsten]

since it came out months ago i've been using it everyday and i could see the changes in all the versions.

now this one is the fastest and stabler. lagginess has been take care of, no more unresponsiveness (was fixed already in 0.4), embedded videos as smooth as any other browser ecc ecc.

try it again in case you didn't like it before or it gave you problems.

i think i won't get back another browser anymore :)

also work on user plugin platform already started, and is scheduled early new year.

i'm loving it.

[XxHennersXx]

Hm..what advantages does it have over say, firefox?

[karsten]

it's FAST.

no really FAST. while using you can understand. it's stable and in the remote case it'll crash, you can close only the crashed tab.

it also have other features to be explored (private browsing since the first beta I.E.). but its fastness makes you remember of the old "web 1.0" when the connection was the bottleneck, not the browser's rendering....

[graciano1337]

i really want to try this out. it looks awesome. bummer they haven't release the Mac version yet...

[ZueriHB]

I'm on Chrome since its first public release, and I must say, besides some websites (The Wario Land Youtube channel and a certain French romsite), everything works to my satisfaction.

[karsten]

now even the youtube channels should be working flawlessly :)

[Tomcat]

Needs a Linux port asap.

[Taemos]

Needs a Linux port asap.

Truest words spoken in this thread.

[PhreQuencYViii]

I'll check it out but I don't think anything can pry me from Opera.

I tried a bunch of browsers last night, including the beta of chrome, it's pretty cool but it's different after you've used one thing forever. I still hate Firefox but it's way better then it used to be.

[karsten]

i was an opera and firefox user. i surrendered to chrome :P

[Paulo]

I use Camino on my mac. For some reason i prefer it to safari.

[retro]

So what's it like? Is it compatible with everything? It has Flash support? And is it fully compliant with w3c standards (unlike IE)? Does it do CSS2?

And what is RAM usage like? If you open say the forum homepage in one tab and Youtube homepage in a second tab, what RAM usage does Task Manager report?

[karsten]

it has flash and java support. it performs better than IE in w3c standards test (but i don't remember if it is any better than FF and opera)...

concerning ram usage, it keeps threads separated, so you have different ram usage per tab/window. it allows you to close a crashed tab without losing data and closing the other ones.

right now after some hour browsing it's using around 60mb on 2 tabs (30 each)... i think comparing it's almost impossible.

just try it, i find it light and fast and i cam multitask freely

[PhreQuencYViii]

I tried it for a long time and have to stick with opera. I'm a neanderthal and can't handle change.

[retro]

Ooh, the separate RAM threads may explain why IE8 beta shows up with 3 threads for 1 window! IE8 really sucks, though!

[3do]

Just downloaded chrome to see whats it like and if it can pry me away from my firefox which i've used for years.

[retro]

Has Firefox sorted out the memory leak problem? When I used it a couple of years ago, I noticed pages taking up HUGE amounts of memory. I tried the same pages in IE and it was a fraction of the RAM usage (e.g. 20Mb in IE against 180Mb in FF).

The downside of using separate threads is more RAM usage, of course.

[Jamtex]

What I don't like about google chrome.

Download procedure is a pain, what happened to downloading the file and installing it rather then downloading an installer which downloads the chrome installer?

Most programs, ask do you want to create desktop and quicklaunch Icons, google seem to think you'll never go back to your old browser again that they put them there by default.

Not everyone uses vista so the blue google look window looks bloody stupid if you happen to use a windows classic look.

The search / address bar is a nice touch but I found it a pain to have to change the default search engine if I wanted to search say Google Japan rather then Google.com. IE7 has a nice function where you type what you want to search in the search window and then you click the drop down menu and you can choose what search engine you want to use, this is useful if you want to use Google US, UK and Japan to search for specific things.

Even windows allows you to turn off automatic updates and even allow you to do them when you want to, but google adds a background update program that you will have to manually find and turn off.

It does seem to use less RAM then IE7 but on a WiFi connection it wasn't any faster.

[3do]

Overall i quite like Chrome but so far its not got me 100% wanting to switch but give it a few days to a week and it may or may not.

The blue look is something i like but and i think it looks good.

I have notice that some websites i never visited take up to a 3 or 4 seconds to load in chrome whereas in firefox they were loaded within a second but other than a few other pages i do visit taking their time to load its about the same speed with loading most pages as firefox.

The one thing i really hate is the download bar and would have preferred a separate tab pop up like in opera and shoe me all my downloads or a small window thing like in firefox.

[jollyroger]

I will probable stick with FireFox for now.

I am really curious about all those people who proclaimed Microsoft was The Devil when it tried to monopolize the OS, while now Google is blatantly trying to monopolize the Internet, but hey "they are not evil" right?

Come on...