Google Chrome

[Rerb]

As the title says Google have released a new web browser which has been around for about a week for testing (beta). I'm using it now and it seems really fast and easy to use.
I wouldn't trust it with anything secure at the moment due to it being in development stage.

Give it a go if you have five minutes spare.
Google Chrome - Download a new browser

Sorry Jonny it's Windows only.

[jonnywombat]

Originally Posted by Rerb

As the title says Google have released a new web browser which has been around for about a week for testing (beta). I'm using it now and it seems really fast and easy to use.
I wouldn't trust it with anything secure at the moment due to it being in development stage.

Give it a go if you have five minutes spare.
Google Chrome - Download a new browser

Sorry Jonny it's Windows only.

But it runs under WINE... he he

[Rerb]

That's good news, have you tried it?
Google chrome by the way not the Wine

[jonnywombat]

No mate.. have to change me user agent to access download, and whilst that's not hard I figure I'll wait for the linux version (that according to them) is under development..

[druidsam]

im using it now and it doesnt seem to terrible, I'll give it a decent run out tonight as firefox has been causing some problems,



.................................Sam

[Shamblatron]

I have only given it a couple of outings so far but it seems fine although as already mentioned i wont be heading to any banking sites, Firefox still has my trust there.

Hi,

Google Chrome is an interesting project but be warned, Google have a habbit of undertaking a project and then leaving it to fade into the background. This, after all, their business model. They try new and exciting things to see what catches on - gmail catched on, so it's still going.

On a more positive note, I'm running Chrome on my Vista machine and it's a very light and fast browser, though I've known people to run it and it's at the top of their process memory list, hogging more than FireFox.

I may start using Chrome on my Linux laptop when the port coems out, we'll see
Overall, it's a nice browser and even if they don't take support any further I'd still use it for those quick Google queries.

[druidsam]

its faster than firefox



............................Sam

Originally Posted by druidsam

its faster than firefox

Oh yeah, it certainly is - but at what cost? Some people have found this speed has been brought to them at a cost of double, in some cases tripple the RAM FireFox uses. To be honest though, this is likely their hardware and unique cases.

I like it, and will continue to use it for light browsing. I currently use FireFox, IE 6/7/8, Chrome, Opera and Links for testing web development projects

[jonnywombat]

Inspired by rerb I have been giving opera9.5 a run out today. Found it easy enough to make it behave in a way which works for me and it is much faster than firefox3, both in loading and rendering.