Google Web Browser on the way!

I'm also not particularly thrilled with FF 3.0 (which I just DLed).

The por--I mean--the incognito mode is really nice, too. Browse without leaving all sorts of tracks.

www.xkcd.com

Webcomic.

XKCD seems to work for me...

Random stops loading after about three times for me.

Hmmm...just did it 10 times in a row, no problem.

Huh. Well, you win this round, Google Chrome. It works for me now.

It was not working
But now it's working just fine
Nobody knows why.

So far, so good, only about an hour of testing, though. Two complaints for now:

1. it seems to have trouble loading to a mid-page target (ie opening a link on Wordforge for a rep comment doesn't load to that post, but a few posts down from it)
2. It flipped the position of open new window and open new tab in the right click over a link context menu, which is causing me to open windows when I want tabs. This is purely cosmetic, though, and I'm getting used to it.

I'll keep using it for a few weeks before I decide whether I prefer it to Firefox.

I really like this, especially the separate processes for plugins and javascript, the task manager for each page, the minimalist layout, and the fact that I can search google directly from the address bar.

Well, I like the sandboxing.

Other than that, there really isn't anything this has that Opera doesn't. We've had Speed Dial (frequently used sites on the new tab page), search from the address bar (hell, can set it up to search Google Images, Wikipedia, the Adobe ColdFusion livedocs, whatever), a minimalist layout (with customization, anyway - you can disable or move almost any UI widget), you can even drag tabs out to new windows and such.

But even I must admit, the sandboxing is kickass. Just hope this souped-up JS is fully documented and on it's way to standards recognition.

I forgot to download it last night.

And I was so excited!

I suspect they're going to be sued by Apple and OmniGroup for trademark infringement in short order, for using the three-gears logo (WebObjects), and for "Omni" in a web browser, respectively.

Interesting idea though, giving each tab its own process. But I can't imagine this is going to be very fast on a single-threaded uniprocessor machine. For instance, I can actually imagine this would be faster on a Pentium 4 than on a Pentium M... that strikes me as somehow wrong.

So far it's very fast, already found one site it doesn't work with.

Ninjavideo.net where i watch all my shows, stops an applet working that you need to watch the videos.

So far it's hit and miss. Slashdot took 44 seconds on Chrome, 7 seconds on Firefox. Macrumors took 7 seconds on Chrome, 15 seconds on Firefox. The Register took 7.5 on Chrome, 10.5 on FF. WF took 5 seconds on Chrome, 5 seconds on FF.

Of course, most of that shouldn't be surprising. The next question is, how does it compare to Safari?

The answer to that, once I actually get Safari downloaded on the Wintel box. The download site appears not to be working currently.

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea/6u10/6u10rcDownload.jsp#6u10JREs

did this java update to semi fix my video problems.

Can't find the spell checker on it too.

Really dislike not having my drop down bar like in IE7

Can't get Youtube too work with it.

Youtube works fine for me.

This is interesting, and decidedly Not Good™.

http://tapthehive.s483.sureserver.com/chrome.html

Think I'll be skipping Chrome until I can compile it myself.

... Yeah, I'll be going back to IE for a while...

Hmm, my install allowed me to deny Google permission to use content.

The EULA's utterly unenforceable. Note the way it reads, its basically saying that if you go to CNN.com, you're granting copyright to Google. (Since you're "displaying" it.) No way, no how will this stand up in court. Its just a broad "rights grab" like the "patent grab" where people manage to get a patent for a widely used technology (say the internet) because the folks at the patent office are fools, and then tries to sue every major corporation for royalty money.
And now that I think about it, you can have lots of fun with their stupid EULA statement. (I should note that the EULA for the search engine says you "must be 18" to use it. )

You can put up a website, using Chrome, asking for donations/investors/etc., and then slap a "Copyright 2008 by Google" on it, thus implying that you are somehow making your request as an arm of Google. You've just made Sleez-O-Matic Enterprises appear legitimate. You abscond with the money, and guess who the suckers will be suing! Google, baby!

(All your Base Are Belong to Google. This post made using Chrome, thus everything is now copyright Google.)

This licensing bit is troubling...

Other than that, I like the browser enough that I think I'd continue to use it. I won't be using it to post anything that I want to retain rights to, though.

Uh it just tells you to shut down firefox, and lets you retry it...

Yeah, but I had some important [-]porn[/-] files open in Firefox, so I didn't want to shut them down until I was *ahem* done with them.

My browser thought it'd be helpful and add that for me.