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Just been moochin' about with the newish Google browser, only in it's Beta stage but I think it's pretty swish!

Anyone else been using it? And if so, what are your thoughts?

Is it me or has everything Google has brought out in still Beta Mode? I use Google Mail and that has been in Beta Mode for at least 2 years.

As for Google Chrome I downloaded it about 2 hours ago, played with it for a bit (don't put that in the innuendo bingo thread), and swiftly removed it. It just wasn't as good as Mozilla Firefox. Also I couldn't find where to access my bookmarks...

Palfince wrote:Is it me or has everything Google has brought out in still Beta Mode? I use Google Mail and that has been in Beta Mode for at least 2 years.

As for Google Chrome I downloaded it about 2 hours ago, played with it for a bit (don't put that in the innuendo bingo thread), and swiftly removed it. It just wasn't as good as Mozilla Firefox. Also I couldn't find where to access my bookmarks...

I actually prefer it to firefox, I love the homepage history thing! You have to go to settings and click create bookmark shortcuts or something like that, for a BETA it's alright!

Wild Card wrote:I actually prefer it to firefox, I love the homepage history thing! You have to go to settings and click create bookmark shortcuts or something like that, for a BETA it's alright!

True, but I'm sure there is an add on for Firefox somewhere that can do the same thing.

I just really like Firefox though...

I've been trying out Chrome and it's pretty good apart from the fact that all text seems to be aliased. I much prefer the anti-aliased (that is, smooth) text that IE provides. I realise Chrome is still in beta, but is there a way to anti-alias all the text?

I'm using it as I type and I love it. This site loads up so much faster for me.

I've got gigs writing about and review it over the next few weeks. I monitor a full disclosure software security mailing list, and I've seen some serious bug reports come in over the past few days. As you say, it's in beta, but I'm just not sure why they've re-invented the wheel. If it were based on Gecko, it would be compatible with Mozilla's plug-in framework. I feel that's a missed opportunity.

It looks nice, though.

I must be going crazy. Then again, I've been using a combination of Chrome and Firefox, and I'm beginning not to like Google's attempt at all. Okay, it's fast, but who doesn't put RSS support in these days? I don't feel I have as much control over things as I do in other browsers. My real problem is, I'm beginning to really like what Google are doing internally. It seems sensible, even if it does chew the old CPU somewhat: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html

I'm not a big fan of it either.. it just looks awkward and badly designed

Though I can see why they haven't included RSS, since they have google reader

Christ on a Bike deck! Have you seen the CPU usage for the Flash plug-in? I've just clocked it at 71% in Chrome's own task manager!

I am completely lost!

Lawrence wrote:I am completely lost!

Basically, it's horribly inefficient.

It fills your cache with all the links so it's fast when you first get it than it slows down, more and more and more...