Re: OT-Anybody in here using Google's new" Chrome" Browser yet?

D Murphy wrote:
Michael <gailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:Q1Lvk.4627$Jp6.2952
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If so how bad is it?


I've been using it all week. That is when I remember to click on it.

In my opinion it's nothing special. It is quicker than IE and it can import your favorites etc.

You can opt not to send info about your usage back to Google.

It has a stealth mode. It keeps your most frequently visited pages on its "desktop" so you can just click on one and it will bring you right back in a hurry. I found Adobe Acrobat was a little clunky. Sometines it opened the pdf in the browser and other times it opened Acrobat outside the browser. Not really a big deal but a definite bug. When Acrobat (full version not just reader) opened in the browser it had full functionality. But why open inside the browser? Like I said, not a big deal, just wierd.

Videos seemed better in Chrome. It might just be my imagination but they seemed sharper and played better than in IE.

The navigation bar doubles as a search box for Google. Type in what you want to search and in less than a second you are on Google's search page with the results.

So far I've had one complete "blue screen of death" crash with it. But I had over a dozen tabs open most running Acrobat plus a couple of single tab instances open along with several Word documents, several spreadsheets, a jpeg viewer, calculator, an old DOS program, a large pdf of a machine manual, and probably a few other things I'm forgetting. I was in the middle of doing some research and multitasking on a couple of other things, so it sucked when it crashed. But I was asking for trouble running all that simultaneously.

On my machine running XP Pro it doesn't hog the processor. It eats up some memory but not quite as much as IE. So I wouldn't say it's a resource hog. The CA security suite and anti virus software is far worse by comparison.

All in all it doesn't seem like anything special. I understand Google has bigger plans for it down the road. It does open and navigate faster than IE and I'll probably continue to play with it for a while.


I like it, the first day I used it it just seemed weird but the second day I got right into it.

1. You can turn off Chrome sending info back to the Mothership.
2. It is much faster than IE
3. Downloads faster
4. Configurable download locations vs IE dumping files all over the hard drive.
5. The book marks are out of the way and more manageable
6.Bigger screen without that big freaking collection of junk at the top of the screen
7. Did I say it was faster without clutter?
8. You just simply "uncheck/disable" automatic sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google.






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