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I've tried google chrome, and IMO

  • First impressions are good, I like it so far.

    Votes: 35 71.4%

  • Nope. Not for me.

    Votes: 14 28.6%
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twicksisted said:
i see youre on vista64... are you running the vista 64 installation setup... and are you right clicking and selecting "run as administrator"?

ps: i havent installed this yet as im at work.. so i dunno if it runs on 64bit
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Only one installation available and i've tried Run As Administrator and XP compability mode.
 
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pagalms said:
Only one installation available and i've tried Run As Administrator and XP compability mode.
Click to expand...

hmmm i dunno... as i said i havent installed it (have restriction policies on our work pcs where i cant install anything...sucks) hehe

Ill check it out when i get home
 
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Has worked fine on my Vista H.P. x64 but I don't think I'm gonna use it. cubs.com had some problems last night and everytime I was checking scores around MLB and MiLB it locked up. I think I'll stick with Firefox.
 
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Got it working on virtual Win2003.
- Latvian translation is so gay, i can't understand half of those stupid translations
- 10 minutes and i still can't find where to change language
- No toolbar (i hate this in IE too)
- Default skin is too blue

- Complete FF & IE ripoff
- Tabs are integrated in title bar

I'll stick with Opera. :)
 
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After using Chrome for 24hrs, I am liking it. FF and Opera didnt last 24hrs on my PC, neither did IE7. So Chrome is doing pretty well.
 
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I'm pretty impressed with it so far but I think ill wait some more to see if it can push firefox out of the way.
 
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I didn't find it any more useful than IE, so I uninstalled it.
It also would just hammer the hard drive whenever I had it running.

Playing with IE8 at the moment.
 
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I'm very impressed with this. I got it working on Vista64, and I didn't have to do anything special for it either. Keep trying or redownload the downloader.

I REALLY like how minimized the layout is... there's absolutely no comparison against Firefox.



Only thing I don't like is how it deals with scrolling on a trackpad. It only allows you to scroll down, and it scrolls very quick. A few of my friends are having the same problem, so it should be fixed pretty soon. Chrome won't have me fully sold until they work out the kinks and have support for Adblock and Foxmarks. Until then I'm gonna stay with FF... but I bet not for long.
 
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Like most of us, I'm typing this in Chrome right now. Overall, I really like it and think it has a lot to offer. However, being beta, it's simply lacking the amount of plugins available for firefox2 (i prefer 2 over 3). Unfortunately, I've become quite accustomed to some of those plugins and would find it hard to stop using them. Like many others have mentioned, scrolling via middle-click does not work, however you can still open a new tab with middle-click.

Really, any problems or missing features, etc are pretty trivial for a beta release. What's important about this release is that it works and works well at exactly what it's supposed to do: browse the web. Future releases should be geared more towards bugfixes/tweaks and adding more features. If google continues to improve upon what they've come up with so far, then they'll have the best browser available imo.
 
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If they fix the scrolling and add a favorites thing on top like FF then I will probably use it but I need the scroll and favorites..
 
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ShadowFold said:
If they fix the scrolling and add a favorites thing on top like FF then I will probably use it but I need the scroll and favorites..
Click to expand...
idk how it's setup by default, but I imported all my bookmarks/favorites from firefox and I have a tab on the right underneath the config icon that's labeled "other bookmarks". It contains all my bookmarks that aren't on the bookmark bar.

btarunr said:
But I think this has a pinch of Gecko in it. It uses all Netscape-compatible plugins (type " about:plugins " in the address bar to see a plugin inventory similar to those of Mozilla's browsers.
Click to expand...
Does this at all mean that plugins/addons/extensions/whatever designed for say, firefox, might work with chrome? Or at least be easy enough to port that authors shouldn't have to be bugged too much to do it? :laugh:
 
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