Google Chrome Beta

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:28 pm

So you guys tried it out yet. I'm using it right now, and so far I'm kind of liking it. :O

Sure it's totally ripped the Opera and Firefox tabs thingy and the opera speed dial tastefully renamed as "most visited". I like the pretty layout, and I love the spellchecker (although it doesn't work on the forums here O-o)

Only real complains I have thus far is the weird typing issue it's got with forums (after a while, some of the letters dissapear and reappear after like 50 seconds), and the faulty spellchecker. Oh, and I hate the fact that if you close out the last tab, it closes the entire browser.

Personally, I like Opera about 50 times better, but it's not a bad browser, and has a pretty neat and attractive download manager. :O

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:24 pm

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:23 pm

It has a couple interesting ideas (having each tab be a separate process, in particular), but nothing that's enough to draw me away from Firefox on my PC or Safari on my Mac (when they finally get around to releasing a Mac version). Adblock alone is enough to keep me on FF, and some of the terms in the EULA are kind of suspect, particularly regarding targeted advertising (the mind-numbingly stupid term about content ownership/display has already been corrected).

Really, though, the only concrete thing it affects for me is it's another browser I have to test with when I'm writing sites (now six or seven, IIRC).

Devolution · Post by **Devolution** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:00 am

i gave it a shot, but decided to wait till it's not in beta before i give it a try as a daily browser.

the most interesting thing i found was their attempt to make the browser function like an operating system. i've locked firefox more than once with faulty flash or script on websites, but with Chrome, i just open the Chrome Task Manager, pick the process that's locking the browser, end it, and boom. i'm back in business. even gives me a little error message that the process i ended has crashed.

i'm with LantisEscudo on the EULA though, there's some fishy stuff written in there, about their advertising, this little gem that requires users to "give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and nonexclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.", and somethings about the Omnibar being capable of recording your keystrokes.

i guess this article clears the second one up a little, but it's still kinda creepy to read that kind of thing while browsing through the EULA.

once it's all polished up, i think i'll give it another shot(after perusing the EULA before i install it of course). it looks like, with some work, it could be far superior to FF eventually. or at least that's how i see it.

Sukunai · Post by **Sukunai** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:55 am

The typing comment which seems common, has me thinking I will likely pass on the beta, even if I am thinking I might like it when it goes out of beta.

Too much of what I do online is basically typing.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:35 pm

The EULA isn't really an issue though. Compile it yourself and you aren't subject to the terms. The data mining is a bit much - they call that adware/spyware in any other case.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:34 pm

The EULA was a case of boilerplate text. They've since changed it.

Me, I like where Chrome is going. I like it even more after learning I went to school with several guys on the team.