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[Ralph]

Todays announcement that the Google Chrome web browser was launching may have been a bit premature... I had been trying to locate a download link most of the day... Now that they have released a download link, the page is broken in both IE7 and Firefox 3...

Have I mentioned recently how much I hate Web 2.0...??? Javascript errors are to blame for the inability to have the page processed properly... One would have assumed that such bugs would have been worked out, unless they were being pressured to launch earlier than expected...

I'm really looking forward to testing the new browser both under Windows and linux... I guess I'll be patient and let them get the bugs ironed out... In reality, I have no choice...

EDIT... Only minutes later the whole Google Chrome section has changed in appearance and seems to be working...

EDIT... Only minutes later, again, I am editing this post with Google Chrome on one of my XP boxes...

[mikef]

Todays announcement that the Google Chrome web browser was launching may have been a bit premature...

According to the news here, it was! The announcement had been written, but posted a little earlier than intended, so the site wasn't quite ready.

[Ralph]

Just a quick update... I have tested the currently available WYSIWYG editors using Etomite Prelude v1.1 and found that TinyMCE and RTE work while Xinha and FCKeditor do not... EditArea doesn't work either...

I have also found that you can crash the browser at times while viewing YouTube videos by playing with the controls...

Some of the Etomite manager modules also have display issues, especially the configuration panels...

It also lacks the ability to grab and resize frames...

[vw53a]

I like it for its speed. I haven't found any bugs. My main sites show up as expected, even the manager, but I haven't gone as far as the configuration panels.
I miss the rss function. And though I like the minimalistic design, I'll stick with Firefox with add ons like FireFTP and WebDeveloper.

I hope this isn't going to turn out to be just another one to write workarounds for.

[fishnchips]

I dislike Web 2.0 also.

[vw53a]

Okay, at my work my FCKeditor worked. At home it doesn't, I get to edit text directly as html code. (Which is what I personally would do in FCKeditor as well though.)

@Ralph or Dean:
Furthermore I'm getting a warning when visiting these forums with Chrome telling me it doesn't like some part of it and lets me click the following link for explanation:
http://safebrowsing....f...hrome&hl=nl
I thought you'd like to know.

edited: I suddenly realised I hadn't used Chrome but just firefox at work.

Edited by vw53a, 04 September 2008 - 10:54 AM.

[Dean]

Fixed

[deadline]

Hi All,

Yet, another web browser... to be honest, I didn't find the interest at first sight... nevertheless you may find this explanation interesting as a conceptual point of vue :
http://www.google.co...lebooks/chrome/

+ the Google Chrome DOM explorator is amazing, and could be an alternative to the Firebug extension on Firefox !!

deadline

[mikef]

one thing caught my attention - one tab locking up shouldn't leave you having to kill all browser windows to get access to the browser back. Firefox locks up too frequently for my liking.

Works fine with all my sites

would like the RSS reader back though

[fishnchips]

Bug crashing all tabs ('every tab is isolated')
http://code.google.c...s/detail?id=122

And their original EULA included that google owned everything you put out using Chrome.

[deadline]

And their original EULA included that google owned everything you put out using Chrome.

Gosh... even my credit card ;-)

[fishnchips]

Yes, and don't forget your wife on that picture

[deadline]

Yes, and don't forget your wife on that picture

My wife ?!!! that's not a big picture

[cathode]

Been using it- xinha works fine in it except for some plugin window sizes

[Ralph]

I'm quite surprised that they haven't had so much as a single update released to date... It must not be very high on their priority list...

[cathode]

I agree Ralph, you'd think with their resources they could have had a bunch of releases already...

[Jim Browski]

One quick remark:
The federal office for IT-Security in germany disadvises to use Chrome due security reasons and the privacy policy.
But there is already an alternative: IRON.
Built from Chromium, it's like Chrome but without all the privacy drawbacks (unique user id, data transfer to google etc.).

[vw53a]

I agree Ralph, you'd think with their resources they could have had a bunch of releases already...

Well, now there's finaly one.

[Ralph]

Well, now there's finaly one.

Just updated... Now to see if any of the original quirks have been fixed...

[AndrewHearne2008]

I've tried this now and seems like a good browser.. Still prefer Firefox but nice as a backup.