Well, the Chrome is..
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Hans Dietrich wrote:
I'm sticking with FF, though, because I've gotten used to all those nice addins.
I use mouse gestures so much that I'll stick with FF too. I'm sure the add-ons will come! CPhog, anyone?
Same here. Plus I already run three browsers and that's enough for now. Also, I saw a report of a Chrome-induced BSOD a few minutes ago! :omg:
Kevin
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fast at rending, at least what I have thrown at it so far. All my sites appear as they should. For Chrome itself though, I will be glad to see new skins come available as it is ugly at this point with the flat blueish-gray appearance. The built in spell checker is handy though. When it imported the bookmarks it did not keep the order but instead sorting them, yuck! For me it is a bit lacking. For some time now, I have gotten use to IE 7 and already miss a few things. One is the search box in IE where I can select the sites to use for search quickly. I have a good list of search sites such as Amazon, Answers, Google, MS Live Search, YouTube, eBay, AllRecipes.com, and the list goes on. Really handy feature in IE 7. Also does not contain RSS Feed handling. Have enjoyed that being built in to IE 7. No big surprise, Silverlight does not work with it. Flash appears (to some people) to have quirks also under Chrome.
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http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/getting-started[^] Oh, the irony. Looks like the next big project for Google will be to craft themselves some IDE.
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fast at rending, at least what I have thrown at it so far. All my sites appear as they should. For Chrome itself though, I will be glad to see new skins come available as it is ugly at this point with the flat blueish-gray appearance. The built in spell checker is handy though. When it imported the bookmarks it did not keep the order but instead sorting them, yuck! For me it is a bit lacking. For some time now, I have gotten use to IE 7 and already miss a few things. One is the search box in IE where I can select the sites to use for search quickly. I have a good list of search sites such as Amazon, Answers, Google, MS Live Search, YouTube, eBay, AllRecipes.com, and the list goes on. Really handy feature in IE 7. Also does not contain RSS Feed handling. Have enjoyed that being built in to IE 7. No big surprise, Silverlight does not work with it. Flash appears (to some people) to have quirks also under Chrome.
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Rocky Moore wrote:
One is the search box in IE where I can select the sites to use for search quickly
Have a look here[^]and here[^] - their search engine selection is through a keyword/URL typed into the address bar. For example, to search on your default search engine, you'd use "? codeproject". Must admit I only ever use Google, but I ought to see if I can set up shortcuts for Amazon UK, IMDB, AllMusic and Wikipedia, as those are sites I search in regularly.
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fast at rending, at least what I have thrown at it so far. All my sites appear as they should. For Chrome itself though, I will be glad to see new skins come available as it is ugly at this point with the flat blueish-gray appearance. The built in spell checker is handy though. When it imported the bookmarks it did not keep the order but instead sorting them, yuck! For me it is a bit lacking. For some time now, I have gotten use to IE 7 and already miss a few things. One is the search box in IE where I can select the sites to use for search quickly. I have a good list of search sites such as Amazon, Answers, Google, MS Live Search, YouTube, eBay, AllRecipes.com, and the list goes on. Really handy feature in IE 7. Also does not contain RSS Feed handling. Have enjoyed that being built in to IE 7. No big surprise, Silverlight does not work with it. Flash appears (to some people) to have quirks also under Chrome.
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Rocky Moore wrote:
One is the search box in IE where I can select the sites to use for search quickly
Have a look here[^]and here[^] - their search engine selection is through a keyword/URL typed into the address bar. For example, to search on your default search engine, you'd use "? codeproject". Must admit I only ever use Google, but I ought to see if I can set up shortcuts for Amazon UK, IMDB, AllMusic and Wikipedia, as those are sites I search in regularly.
Interestingly, you can type "codeproject.com<TAB>" in the address bar and get directly to CP's article search! I couldn't find any other site for which this TAB-search was supported. Whatever CP is doing to support this feature, I hope other sites will do that, too. I love Chrome's speed+responsiveness - I hate the lags in Firefox whenever a background tab refreshes. I love the download manager (it's a lot like Firefox+Download Statusbar, but built in). But as long as it doesn't have equivalents for my other Firefox add-ons (Adblock Plus, FireGestures, Greasemonkey), I'm not going to use it.
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I want my HOME button back!!! :mad:
look in the options, you can set it there somewhere to have the home button displayed.
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fast at rending, at least what I have thrown at it so far. All my sites appear as they should. For Chrome itself though, I will be glad to see new skins come available as it is ugly at this point with the flat blueish-gray appearance. The built in spell checker is handy though. When it imported the bookmarks it did not keep the order but instead sorting them, yuck! For me it is a bit lacking. For some time now, I have gotten use to IE 7 and already miss a few things. One is the search box in IE where I can select the sites to use for search quickly. I have a good list of search sites such as Amazon, Answers, Google, MS Live Search, YouTube, eBay, AllRecipes.com, and the list goes on. Really handy feature in IE 7. Also does not contain RSS Feed handling. Have enjoyed that being built in to IE 7. No big surprise, Silverlight does not work with it. Flash appears (to some people) to have quirks also under Chrome.
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I was underwhelmed myself. They've done a BAD job of the installer: 1) It doesn't let you choose where to install the app. 2) It doesn't install it under \Program Files - believe it or not it installs the binaries in the profile directory of the user who did the installation! 2) of course means that for Windows users (like me) who have multiple Windows accounts are absolutely stuck - they can't run the browser except when logged on as that same user. For me, because I run as a limited user but login as admin to install software, that means that the limited user account can't access the chrome files, which are stored in the admin profile directory! Really stupid design mistakes - I've already reported them to Google - I hope they fix it pronto. Not impressed. Mike
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Interestingly, you can type "codeproject.com<TAB>" in the address bar and get directly to CP's article search! I couldn't find any other site for which this TAB-search was supported. Whatever CP is doing to support this feature, I hope other sites will do that, too. I love Chrome's speed+responsiveness - I hate the lags in Firefox whenever a background tab refreshes. I love the download manager (it's a lot like Firefox+Download Statusbar, but built in). But as long as it doesn't have equivalents for my other Firefox add-ons (Adblock Plus, FireGestures, Greasemonkey), I'm not going to use it.
Daniel Grunwald wrote:
Interestingly, you can type "codeproject.com" in the address bar and get directly to CP's article search! I couldn't find any other site for which this TAB-search was supported. Whatever CP is doing to support this feature, I hope other sites will do that, too.
I was going to reply saying that feature didn't work for me...but then I worked out how to get a URL recognised as a 'search engine'. Just *use the search in Chrome*. I searched for an article on CP and (as if by magic) codeproject.com + <TAB> gave me search. So, I searched for something on Amazon.co.uk and then amazon.co.uk was recognised as a seach engine URL. I also tried IMDB & wikipedia. Worked just the same. That feature is awesome!!!!
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I was underwhelmed myself. They've done a BAD job of the installer: 1) It doesn't let you choose where to install the app. 2) It doesn't install it under \Program Files - believe it or not it installs the binaries in the profile directory of the user who did the installation! 2) of course means that for Windows users (like me) who have multiple Windows accounts are absolutely stuck - they can't run the browser except when logged on as that same user. For me, because I run as a limited user but login as admin to install software, that means that the limited user account can't access the chrome files, which are stored in the admin profile directory! Really stupid design mistakes - I've already reported them to Google - I hope they fix it pronto. Not impressed. Mike
This way, you can actually install Chrome as limited user, no need to login as admin. In Vista, the setup runs without a UAC prompt. But yes, the setup should have an option "Install for current user" / "Install for all users".
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fast at rending, at least what I have thrown at it so far. All my sites appear as they should. For Chrome itself though, I will be glad to see new skins come available as it is ugly at this point with the flat blueish-gray appearance. The built in spell checker is handy though. When it imported the bookmarks it did not keep the order but instead sorting them, yuck! For me it is a bit lacking. For some time now, I have gotten use to IE 7 and already miss a few things. One is the search box in IE where I can select the sites to use for search quickly. I have a good list of search sites such as Amazon, Answers, Google, MS Live Search, YouTube, eBay, AllRecipes.com, and the list goes on. Really handy feature in IE 7. Also does not contain RSS Feed handling. Have enjoyed that being built in to IE 7. No big surprise, Silverlight does not work with it. Flash appears (to some people) to have quirks also under Chrome.
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Doubtful on the skin and RSS fronts. The browser is meant to be as bare-bones as possible to be as fast and stable as possible. No extensions, minimal plugins, little customisation, no extraneous features.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Rocky Moore wrote:
One is the search box in IE where I can select the sites to use for search quickly
Have a look here[^]and here[^] - their search engine selection is through a keyword/URL typed into the address bar. For example, to search on your default search engine, you'd use "? codeproject". Must admit I only ever use Google, but I ought to see if I can set up shortcuts for Amazon UK, IMDB, AllMusic and Wikipedia, as those are sites I search in regularly.
Yeah, shortcuts not near as useful as the search box in IE. It is nice that when you visit some sites, such as Answers.com, there search code will appear in the list in the Search Box and you simply click to add them. Win I first started using IE again (had moved to FireFox until I went to Vista 64 Ultimate) I was annoyed by the search box being there and did not want it on the bar. After I found out how useful it is, hard to live without it ;) To me it is a lot like the scroll wheel on my mouse, went a long time before I started using it and after that I not only used it all the time, but converted others :)
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Doubtful on the skin and RSS fronts. The browser is meant to be as bare-bones as possible to be as fast and stable as possible. No extensions, minimal plugins, little customisation, no extraneous features.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
Paul Watson wrote:
No extensions, minimal plugins, little customisation, no extraneous features.
In other words, useless!
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Paul Watson wrote:
No extensions, minimal plugins, little customisation, no extraneous features.
In other words, useless!
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I wouldn't go that far. As has been pointed out Chrome is more like Fluid; a shell for web-apps to sit on the desktop. Those need to be stable, fast and minimal. Also I think Google favors "extension" of the browser through sites using Gears, not by users installing extra packages into their browsers. I can see the promise of that but at the same time some limitations. There will always be place for Firefox on my desktop when developing sites but I'd like a fast, stable browser for my banking site or GMail etc.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.