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Re: What are your thoughts of Google Chrome

tiendunn732 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:50:28 GMT

Chrome is good but it sometimes crashes when the page has lots of pictures

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Re: What are your thoughts of Google Chrome

alourenco — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:09:32 GMT

I'm still a firefox user, though I do like Chrome- I rotate around Opera, Firefox, and Chrome now and then. Chrome is nice and fast, but it suffers from "so what?" syndrome; there's really nothing it brings to the table that other browsers don't already bring as well (though firefox did ape Chrome's incognito window, if I recall correctly). I wouldn't discourage anyone from using it, but I don't see any obvious advantages it has over the competition.

As for changing the user-agent string, this blog here has some info on how to do it- looks like you have to hex edit the chrome.dll file. Not for the faint of heart, I suppose, but I don't think it will be too long until Chrome supports some sort of user add-on to do this automatically! (Maybe it does already, haven't used it in a couple of versions).

Re: What are your thoughts of Google Chrome

Zeex — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:00:33 GMT

Chrome is also my primary browser at home. I like the home page where all your most viewed websites are thumbnails. The only problem I find in Chrome is the bookmark. I don't like their bookmark settings.

Re: What are your thoughts of Google Chrome

mike3654 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:46:34 GMT

I am a firefox man but have tried Google Chrome and havent found it any better than firefox

Re: What are your thoughts of Google Chrome

Rog — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:59:45 GMT

My opinion of Chrome...

It's great for people who can't find the right plugins for Firefox.

I'm sure it'll take off in a few years, but for now it's sorta "meh", IMO

Re: What are your thoughts of Google Chrome

glamontagne — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:15:21 GMT

I downloaded Chrome a while back to see what the fuss was about. I used it for a day or 2 because it was the latest thing. It worked ok, didn't have many issues with it, but got back to using Firefox and IE. Its worth a download and test drive to see if you like it.

Re: What are your thoughts of Google Chrome

shipley.c — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:55:24 GMT

David, I don't know how on my own and I've never actually used Chrome (I find Firefox fine, no desire to switch). However, I have heard podcasts that reference the ability of Chrome to mimic other browsers. I know Opera can do this - it just reports to the server that its browser "so-and-so" instead of Chrome and the server says "OK". So have it emulate Firefox and see if you can see the videos. You may need a Google search to find out how or just dig through the options.

Re: What are your thoughts of Google Chrome

djanke — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:46:53 GMT

I use Chrome as my primary browser at home. I like the streamlined UI. It really feels well designed and well thought out.

The biggest problem that I've found is that some sites don't recognize Chrome as a compatible browser. For example, when a page has a media clip and it checks to make sure your browser is up-to-date enough to handle everything... the page usually only accepts IE/Firefox (even though I doubt Chrome would have a problem).

A specific example would be that you can't watch TV shows on ABC.com using Chrome.

Other than that, I haven't had any trouble.

What are your thoughts of Google Chrome

jasonblais — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:22:03 GMT

Has anyone downloaded Google Chrome and replaced their browsers with it? I was curious what people thought about it before I download it myself. I've seen someone else use it and it appears really fast, but don't really know much whether it's functional, reliable, etc.