Comments on: What do You Think of Google Chrome?

By: mark g

mark g — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:10:17 +0000

It tries to be firefox but is still missing alot of the features of firefox such as add-on support it also allows java script and active x to run what ever and
even internet explorer warns people about active x.
i think it was designed to push google forward, by recording browsing habits so for all i know its prob.

it does have firebug a firefox addon built in, but like i said why does the world need another firefox clone?

just makes life harder for us web designers, now we got another browsers to compatibility check

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:58:42 +0000

I’ve replaced FF [which still runs on my computers as for I'm a developer and need it to check website compatibility] with Chrome which I use intensively every day due to my job. It’s simply amazing and much faster than FF. Many extensions are now available to customize Chrome the way you like or need to.

By: Fikola

Fikola — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:18:08 +0000

Google chrome is just simply amazing, it even has that basic ”What all teenagers want” kind of touch to it. very rad and cool, beautiful if I may say D:

I like google alot more than I used to now.

Respeect

By: bioport

bioport — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:10:29 +0000

the German “federal office for the security in the information technology” (yes that really exists!) gave out a “strong warning” today to abstain from using Chrome at this particular state of development because of its security holes (as demonstrated by Aviv Raff) and because of Google’s general habit of data mining, that is, customer profiling. right or wrong, i found it interesting that a state agency can do such thing.
for you who read German here’s the link [spiegel.de]

By: netster007x

netster007x — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:51:15 +0000

It even asked me at launch if I wanted to pick a default search other than Google, listing Yahoo! as an option. Can’t even do that w/ Firefox.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:45:31 +0000

OK, this thing is freaking awesome! The minimalist design is perfect, almost exactly same as how I made Fx w/ exts, but better, right out of the box. Comes w/ a truly smart location bar that understands the redundancy of two boxes to get where u wanna go. Leverages awesome features from Opera like tab tear out and moving ‘em between windows, and a smart new tab page, yet w/out the crippling site incompatibilities. Y!Mail works great, and the team already said they’re doing the testing to make it officially supported soon. Incognito is a cool feature. Also, takes Fx’s innovative add bookmark button. The design is seriously so great. It’s minimal, yet includes everything you’d need (ex-no status bar, but hover over a link and see the URL destination). That’s example of where in Fx ext would hide status bar, but wouldn’t smartly show destination URL’s. It’s all set up so you really rarely have to open a window other than main. Downloads show at the bottom, bookmarks search from URL bar. Also, very efficiently uses top part of the window for tabs when maximized.

One annoyance is it scrolls way too far, and not smooth. Also missing a few things like bookmarks organizer, more options, spellcheck… I’d expect that these will be fixed/added before this beta is released.

Until then, I’m really liking Chrome (I’m real surprised they got me, a die-hard Yahooooo!)

BTW: Unrelated. I was trying to do voice chat w/ Vista Y!Msgr, but only allows 1 on 1. I tried istalling XP version, but breaks mic and speakers. What apps support group voice chat on Vista? GTalk?

PS: I can drag the text box bigger! Awesome!!!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:46:00 +0000

Wow, I'm really surprised as to how many of you have tried the browser, but don't like it due to the lack of extension compatibility. That really goes to show that their target market is not existing Firefox users.

Cody wrote:

Google has modified the EULA

That's good to hear because they were fielding a lot of criticism for that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:21:31 +0000

No adblocking, no extensions, no thanks

By: Cody

Cody — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:36:23 +0000

@Rob, Ryan, …

Google has modified the EULA
([arstechnica.com])

They have agreed it was their mistake and it was badly written.

Also, in terms of privacy, since Chrome is open source I’m sure anyone can check whether there are any privacy concerns.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:02:42 +0000

I do not like the EULA for one, that has to be modified – If I blog something using Chrome does that mean Google owns my content?

I also noticed Flash integration was iffy… a couple embedded videos hung on me and they opened fine in Firefox.

and yeah wheres the RSS / Live bookmark support?

It’s a neat idea and all, but those three things alone make a compelling reason for the savvy user to stay with his/her favorite browser for now.