Google Chrome is live...

[subigo]

Want to compare it to your other browsers?

Open them all, go into chrome and type: "about:memory"

It'll give you a nice layout of what everything is doing.

 

[subigo]

Appears to be the DNS prefetching, turned off cpu usage went way down for me.

100% correct... Thanks for that.

 

[SawanM]

No support for Ubuntu.

 

[vinny lingo]

You've gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.

Finally, I can rub one out in complete secrecy

I'm probably way paranoid, but if someone provided a "private area" for me to do things I would otherwise not want to be observed, I sure as fuck wouldn't take them up on using it. I would fully expect that not only is the activity still being recorded, but a red flag goes up when the "private area" is activated.

 

[subigo]

I'm probably way paranoid, but if someone provided a "private area" for me to do things I would otherwise not want to be observed, I sure as fuck wouldn't take them up on using it. I would fully expect that not only is the activity still being recorded, but a red flag goes up when the "private area" is activated.

Guys... this IS an open source browser. If Google is doing anything crazy, there will be an easy way to fix it.

 

[Goldie Dice]

Guys... this IS an open source browser. If Google is doing anything crazy, there will be an easy way to fix it.

Did not even realise it was open source - fair play to Google for doing that.

 

[amanda11]

I got a gmail account, private setted youtube account and private setted blogger acount.

And now this?

Fuck, online footprints everywhere.

 

[subigo]

Holy shit...

Go test Javascript here: http://ejohn.org/apps/processing.js/examples/topics/collision.html

Then do it with Firefox...

lol

 

[Rage9]

Just wondering if any Mac or Linux guys have tried running it under WINE?

 

[subigo]

Just wondering if any Mac or Linux guys have tried running it under WINE?

There are people over at Digg that say it works fine under their version of WINE.

And apparently Google is going to have a mac/linux version out in a month or so...

 

[Priority_Mail90]

There are people over at Digg that say it works fine under their version of WINE.

And apparently Google is going to have a mac/linux version out in a month or so...

According to the open source code, they barely have the shell running on the mac let alone the entire browser architecture. A month seems somewhat optimistic.

 

[vinny lingo]

Guys... this IS an open source browser. If Google is doing anything crazy, there will be an easy way to fix it.

The craziness won't be in the code, it hides in the EULA.

By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services.

Emphasis mine.

Now what the fuck does "through" mean here? Is that saying that if I use Chrome, any content I post anywhere is theirs to use? Were I to use Chrome to post on WickedFire, would they own that? Man, I fucking hate EULAs.

Then again, I didn't really read the EULA when I installed Firefox. Selective paranoia, eh?

 

[blackthought286]

It's close to being moved to as a default and firefox for development but not quite there yet. I had some problems with a couple of pages and need some necessary extensions. There extensions api is supposed to be ready soon so I will wait till then and see if somebody ports over noscript.

 

[LotsOfZeros]

Then again, I didn't really read the EULA when I installed Firefox. Selective paranoia, eh?

You're not alone. I don't trust Google either honestly.

 

[johu]

My only complaint so far is it won't let me hold down my mouse wheel for a quick scroll...

I submitted that as a "bug" earlier.

I'm pretty impressed by the whole internal task manager thing - I tend to leave my Firefox open for days at a time between crashing and relaunching, and the thing's memory usage just grows - 20 tabs were at 500MB RAM usage earlier before crashing it. Being able to end flash within pages is a great RAM saver.

 

[buRnt]

Is there a way to "work offline" or view pages offline with Google Chrome?

 

[LazyHippy]

Looks good, but keeps crashing trying to import FF passwords and I can't see it becoming my main browser until a few essential plugins are available.

 

[turbolapp]

Awesome Ideas:
The start page, I think opera has been doing something like this for awhile, but why hasn't firefox? Having the top 8 websites I use there ready to click is sweet. 99% of what I'm doing is probably on those top8 sites.

FF Fast Dial plugin, FTW.

 

[xentech]

Don't forget this is Google guys.

You think your online footprint was big before? It'll be huge now.

It is an open source project, I'm sure they wouldn't be stupid enough to do that.

 

[SCapitalist]

I think its a good move on Googles part to make this any opensource project. It has odviously worked for FF. The comic strip they produced to showcase Chrome was very interesting. This browser looks like it will have alot of potential. I definately like the top8 idea.