Google Chrome

[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]

It lags enough to be unusable if there enough gif animation on a page.

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

[Kintaro]

It lags enough to be unusable if there enough gif animation on a page.

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

It's useless for any forum that isn't freetard related.

COS FREETARDS DON'T HAVE ANY DECENT GIF ANIMATION SOFTWARE

[Calum]

They don't have a Linux or Mac version yet, so I hijacked my parents' Vista computer for time being.

pfft.

i have several totally working browsers already without having to start using a new operating system thanks.

the only interest this has for me is how this will affect the usage statistics for each browser, because this will inform the next minor shift in the attitude of users towards certain software philosophies.

COS FREETARDS DON'T HAVE ANY DECENT GIF ANIMATION SOFTWARE

and windoids don't have proper png support, ogg support, m4a support, etc etc etc. The list goes on.

[Kintaro]

I have support for all those things which is fine, so wtf are you on about.

[Calum]

what i'm on about is the incredibly poor support for any of those things in the distributed version of the operating system. I'm sick of people moaning about how linux distributions don't have this or that and just have a look at MS Windows! it has nothing out of the box except wma/wmv support, slow startup times and dodgy security.

To get support for virtually every file format under ms windows, you need to install something yourself, that you have downloaded or bought. I'd like to see an "out of the box file type compatibility chart" to see just how much ms windows lets its users down in the default distribution compared with the default distributions of other comparable operating systems.

perhaps that's something for the famous "front page" of this site.

[Kintaro]

Dude out of the box Windows has MP3 support, which is what everyone is using.

[Refalm]

None of the OS's has proper DivX or XVid support out of the box (except Linux Mint and Linspire).

[Lead Head]

Just install video lan, every format you could ever want right there. Most OS's out of the box do have shitty support standards. The new version of windows are getting better, but still fairly limited.