Comments on: Have You Tried Google Chrome

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:47:49 +0000

It seems faster to me but all of my precious plugins means that i can pretty much only use it for quick browsing. I like opening screen with the most visited sites also. And I can not believe they didnt include any of the freekin google toolbar buttons.

The options available are also highly limited., Firefox has way more

hopefully the next version will be better and i do think they may be an advantage to starting a new browser from the ground up with clean code

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:42:54 +0000

Lorin,

I personally prefer Flock. But the Browser of choice for most RE bloggers is Firefox.

Flock saves me a lot of typing and even without Google Gears installed it works great and manages my blogs very well. (That is when they are manageable) When they aren’t it doesn’t matter what browser you use : )

By: Lorin Martin

Lorin Martin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:22:47 +0000

I have not used google chrome before and I’m still not really sure now if that’s a good one to use or not. Do you think this one is the best or would you recommend using something different?

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:58:10 +0000

Scott,

The issues I’ve been having with the Lab caused your comment to be scrambled and then it wouldn’t delete.

I’ve re-entered it, hence the late arrival on the post.

The answer to why I’m using Chrome? LOL

Scott, this is the lab, we try everything out in here. It seems it updates automatically, which might be a good thing in beta. It is fast, but not sure how I feel about it overall.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:54:42 +0000

Dave-
I missed the part in the post saying why you are interested in using Chrome. What are you trying to fix or change?

I like the new WP 2.6.x interface and have been very happy with it.

By: Mike Taylor

Mike Taylor — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:36:15 +0000

I haven’t tried it out either. I’ll wait until others get the kinks out before taking it for a test drive. Besides there are not, to my knowledge anyway, all the cool plugins that make FF so useful. My tiny brain can only take in so much at a time and its not ready for a new browser just yet:)

By: Ismail

Ismail — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:59:17 +0000

here’s an article I just read on tgdaily.com

http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-39176-108.html

Apparently the chrome browser indexes all pages including pages from https websites, this means that by accessing you bank account via Google chrome you are leaving all you account information.
My advice is that you stay away from this browser as it looks like Google has alot of issues to work on before it is 100% safe

Ismail

By: Ken Smith

Ken Smith — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:14:49 +0000

As normal I am waiting until some of the bugs get worked out. Microsoft isn’t the only company that has issues with it’s initial releases .

Have had multiple people tell me “it’s fast, BUT”….there is always a but to the statement. Each “but” has been different and they all seem to be bugs that would annoy me.

Google is fast so I’ll give them a few weeks and try Chrome.

By: St George Commercial Real Estate

St George Commercial Real Estate — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:15:39 +0000

I have tried Chrome and played around with it. I watched their official announcement on YouTube and they said one of the things that they were trying to get away with was having popup boxes unlike Firefox. That might be why some are having problems. I can’t wait until there are addons and plugins to use with Chrome.

By: Omar Upegui R.

Omar Upegui R. — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:58:20 +0000

I’ve been using Chrome since its launch last Tuesday. The only problem I’ve had, is that it sometime freezes when I open my Photobucket page. In order to get it going back again, I have to close the application.

I haven’t encountered your problems with WordPress. I just finished making two posts at my blog, Lingua Franca, at WordPress and everything was fine. I just wish Chrome would have more features. It so stripped-down, that it hampers your blogging productivity.

It’s blazing fast, but I prefer Flock and Firefox to be my favorite Web browsers.

Great blog!

Omar.-