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Old 09-03-2008, 04:42 PM
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It takes a bit to get used to, but holy crap this is fast. Anyone using Firefox, I strongly suggest upgrading to Google Chrome, and anyone still use IE, I feel sorry for you.

http://www.google.com/chrome
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I started using it yesterday, it does look very odd and takes time to get use to, but yes, it is very fast.
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I installed it yesterday and it's amazing. The speed blows FF out of the water.
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does it work on a mac?
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nvm got my answer
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^ Not yet for OS X, but they will come out with it.


But yea, I can't believe how fast this browser is. Plus it's more secure than IE, doesn't have any memory leaks, you don't lose everything when Windows decides to take a crap... The jump in speed from IE to FF was decent, but from FF to Chrome...holy crap, it's like going from 56k to Cable.
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lol^. i couldn't agree more with the speed. And the security is a big plus as well. IE sucks and IE8, 9, 10 etc will never ever be good. Way to slow and unsecure.
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yup, its pretty sweet faster then firefox def
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It's a very fast browser. I've been using it at work since yesterday.

The tabbing is incredibly beefy, and the ability to turn a webpage into an 'application' is quite cool.

My only issue with it is that at this point, Google knows pretty much everything about their user. It's easy to imagine a world where the googlebots are everywhere scraping data.

Also, has anyone else noticed that SL isn't rendering properly? The red bars of shame/awesomeness aren't showing up anymore and sometimes, everything is sitting a bit off to the left.

I'm planning on compiling Chrome on my Macbook tonight.
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Old 09-03-2008, 05:17 PM
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I haven't noticed anything about the red, the only thing I've noticed about SL, is when typing a reply, sometimes the text on line 2 doesn't show up until you get halfway thru the line.

Chrome isn't available for OS X yet.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-100...2.html?tag=txt

It boggles my mind that about 80% of internet users are still using the slowest browser available.
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It's not out for mac yet, but you can run parallels.
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O no, google chrome suffers first security flaw already...read more:

http://www.techspot.com/news/31486-c...rity-flaw.html
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Huh... Not just a security flaw, apparently.. check this out.

http://tapthehive.com/discuss/This_P...e_s_EULA_Sucks
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yea i read that before, looks like chrome is crashing...back to firefox 3.0
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Could be fun to mess around with.
Compiling Chrome for OS X
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/h...tructions-os-x
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Yeah, read the terms of service on that one.

Basically, Google has the right to document every site you visit for targeted advertising.

No thanks.
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nope i'm staying with FF3
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wow its amazing super fast its amazing
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They changed the TOS so it no longer says whatever it said before.
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I'm trying it out right now, it's noticeably faster than FF 3.0
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