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Old Jul 16, 2009 | 07:14 AM
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Very very fast .. nice and empty .. nice and simple ..

Have to say I am very impressed.

Lets you install on restricted work machines too.
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Old Jul 16, 2009 | 02:53 PM
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I ditched Firefox for this a while back and never looked back.
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Old Jul 16, 2009 | 03:16 PM
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on the plus side, it's multi threaded with each tab running in it's own process space - if a page crashes, the other tabs are still fine

on the down side, you get google updater processes and services perpetually in the task list :grrr:
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Old Jul 16, 2009 | 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by spectrum48k
I ditched Firefox for this a while back and never looked back.
As someone who has just ditched IE8 to go for Firefox3.5 could you tell the advantages of Google Chrome over FF?
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Old Jul 16, 2009 | 03:26 PM
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apart from the isolated page processes i mentioned, chrome is just pain visibly faster at rendering web pages than FF.
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Old Jul 16, 2009 | 04:04 PM
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Chrome uses webkit, if you can't run webkit or Safari then it's second best.
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Old Jul 17, 2009 | 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Jamz3k
As someone who has just ditched IE8 to go for Firefox3.5 could you tell the advantages of Google Chrome over FF?
As said mate its just so much quicker
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Old Jul 17, 2009 | 10:07 AM
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But can you get AdBlock Plus for it? I think not........

....hence I'll stay with FF for the time being thanks.
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Old Jul 17, 2009 | 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by ChefDude
apart from the isolated page processes i mentioned, chrome is just pain visibly faster at rendering web pages than FF.
Yeah, probably because it forgets to render half the stuff as it should (read: as expected to be seen by IE+FF, usually involving javascript)

Bro uses it on the other side of the desk, and I use FF. Every time he says some website is "broken" it always works in FF. This is why I'll be holding off on it for a while and sticking with FF even though I have Chrome installed for testing.
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Old Jul 17, 2009 | 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by judgejules
Yeah, probably because it forgets to render half the stuff as it should (read: as expected to be seen by IE+FF, usually involving javascript)

Bro uses it on the other side of the desk, and I use FF. Every time he says some website is "broken" it always works in FF. This is why I'll be holding off on it for a while and sticking with FF even though I have Chrome installed for testing.
I've had no problems. Probably just unorthodox code. There's ideosyncrasies with all browsers, which some web designers accomodate with different code paths. They probably just didn't bother with Chrome at the time.
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Old Jul 17, 2009 | 06:15 PM
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But can you get AdBlock Plus for it? I think not........

....hence I'll stay with FF for the time being thanks.


I'm not selling it to you ..
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Old Jul 17, 2009 | 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by ChefDude

on the down side, you get google updater processes and services perpetually in the task list :grrr:


This. For the brief time I had it installed I was getting ZAP alerts about three times a day that Chrome wanted to do something - even when I wasn't using the -ing thing. Horrible, horrible browser. FF is still G*d.


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Old Jul 19, 2009 | 05:01 PM
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I just recently downloaded Google Chrome. It is great! It is much faster than the other ones. I still love my Firefox, though.
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Old Jul 20, 2009 | 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by _Meridian_
This. For the brief time I had it installed I was getting ZAP alerts about three times a day that Chrome wanted to do something - even when I wasn't using the -ing thing. Horrible, horrible browser. FF is still G*d.


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Google Chrome is here to stay. It's up to third parties, such as those generating your 'zap alerts' to get their finger out.
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