Google set to release Chrome

[Cajun]

does not handle j initnaor which i need for work, so no good for me

i got a few hacks which reduce ff memory issues

[James Deuce]

Google must've cached the Internet.

It's pretty blimmin' fast.

[Slyer]

So it's going to be the Harley of internet browsers? Large and cumbersome like most of Google's other stuff?

At least it's aptly named.

Well your prediction was a complete FAIL.
It's very well made, just needs the addons I use in firefox and I'd switch.

[pyrocam]

So far I love it. The speed. The reliability. The new tab homepage thing thats awesome. the auto complete is great. the fact I can resize this text box dynamically. The window -> tab -> window feature. porn mode... I mean 'incognito mode'
The only annoying thing is special applets and junk that don't work (yet) and the lack of mod's (eg. firebug, Ook, Greasemonkey) again, yet.


but for a day old browser, I'm bloody impressed. It's my default browser for sure.

[Dargor]

I dont like the skin, It should just use the same one as the rest of my windows.

[Slyer]

It looks better on xp than vista. I like the blue..

[Winston001]

I like Opera but after 6 years of it now use Firefox exclusively. With the right extensions it does everything Opera did plus a few more things. If Chrome proves to be better eventually, I'll give it a try but can't be bothered cluttering up my registry at the moment.

[Slyer]

I've never liked google desktop applications like google earth and the desktop search etc... Always having problems and cluttering the place up. Google updater also annoys me.
This is like a new google in regards to desktop applications.

[crynsie]

Tried Chrome last night on a few pages...

The thing that turned me off (and back to firefox) is that using the scroll function on my touchpad will only scroll down but not up....really f**king annoying!
Otherwise fast but I don't like the white flash as it loads pages...

Firefox rules this lappie for the mo

[bobsmith]

Has anyone tried to uninstall Google Chrome?

Here is another reason why I love it!

[Slyer]

Yeah there's some fun with words in this browser, like "Stats for nerds" in the task manager and "Under the hood" tab in the options.

[Gubb]

Distressingly it seems that anything you upload through Chrome can become the intellectual property of Google...

From the EULA and subsequently taken from the reg.

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

Suppose Google does this to material you have posted that's not yours? No problem. It has a get-out-of-jail card signed by you in section 11.4 of the EULA:

11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above licence.

[marioc]

hmmmmmmm not to keen on that

[Slyer]

It's obviously talking about a very specific area, "services".
Not anything that you upload from any website...

[Gremlin]

I seem to spend a part of my life uninstalling Google Toolbars, desktop search (updater?? wtf did that come from), and by and large, users claim they never installed it and/or don't know what it is.

Dell now installs a bunch of google stuff standard as well (I loved Dell 5-6 years ago, with minimal extras).

Google is now bordering on pestware for me, still use the normal search page (obviously) but thats it.