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Refalm:
Google has a browser too!
It's out since yesterday, and it's called Google Chrome.
They don't have a Linux or Mac version yet, so I hijacked my parents' Vista computer for time being.

What exactly is it, and is it better than Firefox or Opera?


This is what you get when you open Chrome. You can quickly put bookmarks on top, search your history, and click on your most visited pages (kinda an Opera Speeddial rip-off)


First help page, which states that you can use Google Suggestions, like Firefox.


A page on opening a new tab, like Opera.


All right, this is pretty unique. You can actually make a shortcut of a website pretty quickly by clicking one button.


Intro page with a very annoying female voice explaining several Chrome features:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl9VMiR_6PE


Visiting YouTube.


Incognito-mode. For browsing porn. The pages you visited, cache, etc. doesn't get saved to your hard disc.


Google Suggestions that don't work for every search you do apparently.


Deleting your browsing history.


Downloading stuff is like downloading it with DownloadStatusbar in Firefox, only it doesn't display the speed. Which is sad, because I can't show off my 20 Mbit download connection.


And they don't have a Mac version? I guess Safari got scared of competition.

worker201:
Why:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/why.html?hl=en

A Mac version is supposedly on its way, and they're looking for Mac developers to sign up as testers.  Since the whole thing is based on WebKit, just like Safari, a Mac version probably won't be all that exciting.  I'd download it, though, if I had a Windows computer that was allowed to use the internet, just to see what it would be like.

Lead Head:
Looks to be decent, but I heard you can't middle click the scroll wheel and fast scroll?

Kintaro:
I've tried it, it is pretty neat but has some rough edges. It lags enough to be unusable if there enough gif animation on a page.

worker201:

--- Quote from: Kintaro on  4 September 2008, 04:23 ---It lags enough to be unusable if there enough gif animation on a page.

--- End quote ---

So it's useless for 4chan, but okay for everything else.

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