Chrome browser from Google

[cegras]

Originally Posted by enaberif

tried and don't like.

To premature to give it any thought right now.

Off the top of my head.

1) I don't like how each thread is a new process that takes anywhere between 10-40mb of ram
2) I don't like the Vista feel tot he UI of it.

1) Memory is meant to be used. If you read Google's comic on their design decision to do that, you'd understand. (Sandbox for security, if one window crashes the whole thing isn't lost, if you close a tab you instantly regain all the memory, etc, etc)

2) That's purely subjective.

[Thund3rball]

Tried it a little yesterday, so far I like the speed, omni box and the start page is alright too. Read the whole comic and what they say makes a lot of sense but I am not a developer per se. I don't mind the memory usage as that's what it is there for. I like the seperate process idea, makes sense to me. As time passes it will have more user created add-ons and better features just like FF. So far a from me on this beta.

Sadly this will do nothing to take users away from IE and only split those who already use an alternate browser. As a web designer I don't need another browser to hack away at code for. I haven't had any issues yet with it and since it's still beta I'll reserve my comments. But I hope I don't need to be thinking about more compatibility problems when it goes mainstream.

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Thund3rball

Tried it a little yesterday, so far I like the speed, omni box and the start page is alright too. Read the whole comic and what they say makes a lot of sense but I am not a developer per se. I don't mind the memory usage as that's what it is there for. I like the seperate process idea, makes sense to me. As time passes it will have more user created add-ons and better features just like FF. So far a from me on this beta.

Sadly this will do nothing to take users away from IE and only split those who already use an alternate browser. As a web designer I don't need another browser to hack away at code for. I haven't had any issues yet with it and since it's still beta I'll reserve my comments. But I hope I don't need to be thinking about more compatibility problems when it goes mainstream.

Difference.

Opensource software.

It can be bent and willed as people like.

[Thund3rball]

Originally Posted by enaberif

Difference.

Opensource software.

It can be bent and willed as people like.

Oh I get open source but what I am saying is with yet another browser on the market, if it takes off I don't want to run into discrepancies between it and the other browsers and platforms I already have to deal with when working on web sites. Like the way CSS is handled in FF vs IE. Or how text is rendered different on a Mac than a PC etc.. etc... it's all just a total PITA for us web guys.

I am not a programmer or developer but I have to create and work with code everyday, and it has to work across a large cross section of users. I fear that Chrome will not be making my job any easier. And as I said.... Chrome will not be taking IE users away from IE. It will only be splitting the users who are already using FF or other browser.

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Thund3rball

Oh I get open source but what I am saying is with yet another browser on the market, if it takes off I don't want to run into discrepancies between it and the other browsers and platforms I already have to deal with when working on web sites. Like the way CSS is handled in FF vs IE. Or how text is rendered different on a Mac than a PC etc.. etc... it's all just a total PITA for us web guys.

I am not a programmer or developer but I have to create and work with code everyday, and it has to work across a large cross section of users. I fear that Chrome will not be making my job any easier. And as I said.... Chrome will not be taking IE users away from IE. It will only be splitting the users who are already using FF or other browser.

Considering no mainstream browser works properly with web development and most people just develop for IE because its "mainstream" I'm glad more browsers pop-up because this may make standards become more strict.

Internet Explorer completely botches HTML coding.

[Thund3rball]

Originally Posted by enaberif

Considering no mainstream browser works properly with web development and most people just develop for IE because its "mainstream" I'm glad more browsers pop-up because this may make standards become more strict.

Internet Explorer completely botches HTML coding.

Hopefully you are right.

Yes I agree... IE sucks for coding. But sadly IE holds 80% of the market.

I prefer to code on FF as it has some good web dev goodies and is definitely more standards compliant. Sadly my pages are often broken in some way on IE and I have to hack and slash the code to get them to look right.

But FF is a whopping 15% of web users. Chrome will only fragment 20% of web users from 15% FF, 5% other to some other figure. I don't think IE will die anytime soon. MS has no incentive to be more strict with that kind of domination?

But I optimistically agree with you, maybe another browser will spur a stricter compliance among all in the future?

[enaberif]

Here's my thoughts.

Chrome is VERY similar to firefox so the transition from firefox to chrome will be VERY negligible. So now if they can get all the proper addons and small things fixed in Chrome I could see it becoming fairly popular due to its small footprint memory wise and disk space wise.

Oh and themes for Chrome won't be hard; the UI is contained in a single DLL file and if I felt obligated I may do it.. but I don't hahah.

Themes already:
-> [theme] Google Chrome - "PitchBlack" - WinMatrix

[belgolas]

Did you guys hear you or try out the 2 button chrome crash of doom. All you have to do is put this :% into the address bar an boom the whole browser crashes and there is no back-up like firefox. Going to stick with firefox for now.

[misterlarry]

Just tried it and the message says: "Chrome has crashed". Might still be some issues to work out.

[Leclerc]

Using it since tomorrow and for a beta release I'm quite impressed.

Waiting for more ...