Google Web Browser on the way!

It's a copy and paste EULA from the rest of Google Services.

Reasons to not freak out:

#1: it's open source: if theres anything evil going on, people will find it. If you are too paranoid about the EULA, you can simply run another copy of it that is not bound by the EULA terms anyway.

#2: As I said, its a copy-paste, cover-your-ass-until-a-real-EULA-is-written type thing: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10031703-56.html

#3: After testing, Google doesn't really collect any data that is out of the ordinary for a browser (at this point anyway): http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/

Couldn't wait the extra minute and a half to "finish up" with those "files"?

A complaint to register: I dislike the fact that wordforge hotkeys do not work in Chrome for things like bold and italics (or Strong and Emphasis if you prefer to be anal about it).

This was one of my complaints with Safari as well, so I assume it's related to WebKit.

That's odd, ^i and ^b work fine for me in Safari, in Windows anyway.

Never worked for me. I don't run it on OS X though.

And the first security issues have been found.

Not surprising at all, and I imagine that more will be found as time goes by. It'll take time to find and fix them all.

Try typing about:internets in the address bar for a real time description of the internets.

I noticed that when you right-click something, you must left-click the menu entry you want. I think all the other browsers let you right-click on these menus, which is something I rather got used to.

Can't print only a selection of text yet, either. And I noticed some really shitty behavior - it'll autofill user name and password fields, but it absolutely lacks any context in what it's doing - as a result, editing a random user in one of the web apps I'm developing results in the browser filling your own UN/PW into the user's fields. For anyone looking to get around this, include 'autofill="false"' in your FORM tag.

It's very fast. Super fast. I love that aspect of it.

The rest of it? Hate it.

I don't like not being able to change the look of the browser. I don't like how they did the favorites. I don't like that there are so few options. I don't like not having the menu bar. I don't like having the address bar and the search bar mixed together. I don't like not having a home button.

I especially hate that when you open a new tab it doesn't go to your homepage but instead shows your most recent page visits. I don't like it even remembering them. I don't want to see that and want it killed.

If it wasn't for the speed it would have been uninstalled in a heartbeat. I've got to admit it is amazingly fast. Even on my dino-600 mhz-saur computer it is super fast. Even with Hulu running!

Basically I want to modify it to look like how I have IE8 and Firefox in terms of the top of the browser.

In Firefox you can use either to select. You right click on an item and then lets say you want to open it in a new tab well you can use the left or right click to do it.

You use remember passwords?

I shut all that stuff off. I don't want this machine doing any autofill for me for anything.

I wonder what they did different from Microsoft and Firefox to get the speed going so fast. Hopefully Firefox will implement it.

That, you can fix. Click on the wrench in the upper righthand side of the browser, just below the close 'X.' Select 'Options' and you'll see a tickbox in the popup window which says "Show Home button on the toolbar."

Thanks I missed that one.

Oh and it has difficulty with cut and paste operations and with spelling. It tells me a word is spelled wrong but then won't let me fix it without retyping it.

I've noticed on some older versions of vBulletin, it doesn't properly display the textbox. There are definately some minor kinks to be worked out, and hopefully when some folks are able to compile their own versions/create add-ons, these will get fixed. (Can't imagine that Google will do an adblocker for it, but I'm sure someone will.)

I've noticed that when you clear history it clears everything meaning I have to reenter my password into Wordforge.

You turn it off. The vast majority of people do not. Hell, people download the fucking Google Toolbar just to get the high-powered autofill that it provides.

As such, when you're developing web sites, you want to look at them the way the vast majority of users will look at them. That's why you not only test on IE, but you make damn sure that IE works perfectly. We've thankfully got to the point now where we can begin to safely flip the bird to IE6, but still, we check in it, and if it's a showstopper, it's going to be fixed.

Thankfully, Chrome has yet to (and, let's be honest, won't for a good long while) reach enough mass to warrant full design support. It is still absolutely crazy, unexpected behavior, and if it cropped up in Chrome, it would crop up on every computer running the Google Toolbar, and that is a big problem. It's absolutely fine on pages you expect that behavior, and really, those are the cases that are most frequent, but on anything else, it is just killer.

Firefox crashes the rep box once in a while.

Haven't noticed anything with Chrome yet.

Plus, did someone mention that its frickin' fast?

Type :% in the search window and watch what happens.

I'm still liking it. I like it enough that I'm setting IE aside until Chrome does something to really piss me off.

So far, it's been stable and fast. And the autocomplete function is one of the better ones I've ever used.

I like the bookmark bar, I like getting the 9 most heavily visited sites in a new tab window...

Lots of upside so far, very little downside.

My only complaint right now is that Chrome doesn't like Photobucket or Facebook.

This is what I got

What should I be seeing?

Need to type in :% not just %. It should crash your browser as you type it.

Ah, I forgot the colon. Pretty amazing how fast it crashes.

Ten Cool Google Chrome Tips and Tweaks