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The installer says 'connecting to internet' and just stays on that.

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Check your firewall because when i ran the installer my firewall popped up a request straight away.

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Doh! Me #91 - I wasn't logged in lol

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I even tried switching my firewall off but it still just comes up with a box saying google chrome installer connecting to the internet.

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Just the got the message....
Whoa google just crashed, restart now?

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Wheres the Home page button or how do i get to my homepage?

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Click the spanner top right corner. Then click on Show homepage button on the bar.

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so far so good does enyone get the feel on linux lol enyway does enyone know how to delete cookies temp files etc when browser is closed

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File Menu is accessed via 'Control the Current Page'(Paper icon at top right). Bookmarks Toolbar can be switched off via 'Customise...'(spanner icon at top right)

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Thanks but i'm back on Firefox now as to many things just don't work especially the apps on Facebook, i'll check back another time after a few releases

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yes but then you lose bookmarks from what I can see

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plus it hasn't got the shotcuts of.net .com and .org which was the reason why i switched over to FF

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looks ok, seems to be lacking options with most things hidden away, nothing there that is worth all the hype it's getting

memory usage isn't that great either and the numbers in about:memory don't add up

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Spanner > Options > Show Home button on toolbar.

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With me, it imported all my settings from Firefox, where I had a bookmark bar and it is in the exact same order.

Has anyone seen the task manager? Right-click on the tab bar at the top

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Love the "stats for nerds" option.

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Not to sure about this browser yet

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How do you find that

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Hm, no adblock, and I don't think I like this 'most visited' feature much. It gives you the option for increased privacy, but out of the box it makes the browsing history even more evident. Definitely back to FF for me. At least until an ad blocker is available.

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Gone back to firefox...can't cope with my scrolling bug

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When i was typing a reply to a post, it corrected me :)

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When you click on the '+' at the top for a new tab, the bookmarks toolbar reappears for use.

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The spellchecker was already turned on for me

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Lost some (quite a lot) of my bookmarks.

But other than that, I like it.

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Cool

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ohh crashed as soon as it installed

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Its quick and slick, but you notice how much you miss the Firefox extensions when they are gone.

Plus there's no RSS reader in Chrome? I miss the Live Bookmark feature in Firefox.

The incognito window is nice though.

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Finally got it up and running, it's VERY fast. Just need to have a play with it now.

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Something to hide ;)

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cant get the preview page to work on hotmail

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No google toolbar?!

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I like a side bookmark bar, am I missing something or isn't there an option?

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the big question is are you gonna stick with google chrome or go back to the others?

iv decided to stick with google because this browser is clean simple and easy to use and it looks very nice on screen :)

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Not sure :(

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At the moment im sticking with Firefox 3 as it seems faster and everything works, but ask me again in 2 months.

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will do lol in fact ill ask one of the admins to stick a poll up in a month or so

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iv noticed something im abit wary about, when i go into options then minor tweaks then show passwords all my passwords are there? how safe is that?

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There's something like that on Firefox aswell.

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oh iv never noticed, but is it safe?

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Apparently this browser doesn't work with the current version of Java, however it works with Java 6 update 10(beta) plugin.

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You can see all your passwords in Firefox too.

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right thanks.. better download java :>

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as safe as saving your passwords in the first place (which I'd never recommend)

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That Java plugin crashes firefox for me so i had to uninstall it. Obviously Google Chrome needs alot of work and certain website need to be fixed to work with it before its ready for all round use.

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Damn I am liking this new browser and its direction.

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Looks good so far - browsing in Chrome running on an XP VM :)
difficult to gauge speed in a contrived environment like this, but will try on my Vista laptop tmrw.

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Haven't even looked at it yet (if ever).

Anyone hear the rumour that a part of the app called googleupdater.exe phones home with user info??

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Erm, I think that's the bit where you are asked if it's OK for them to use certain parts of your information to improve the browser.

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I didn't tick that bit, but KIS has still been asking me if I want to allow it access.

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OK...my thoughts...

It's quite nice.

Speed is generally very good, although there's the odd slowdown.

For the saved passwords, there's no Master Password like with Firefox.

No Google toolbar as someone mentioned earlier.

Main thing I don't like... adverts! I've got so used to never seeing adverts, that it was quite irritating having to put up with them again. Hopefully someone will come along & do a Chrome equivalent of AdBlock Plus etc.


I'm back on FF3 now.

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I was wondering when that theory would be brought up.
But then again anything is possible these days.

I guess we will hear more in the next few days as people get under the bonnet of this browser.

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Eh, & why is it installed in "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" instead of Program Files?

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Go into Tools, About Google Chrome, and you get this -

Official Build 1583
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

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Why not, btw? Not even with Firefox's "Master Password"?


Is it any less safe than keeping cookies for everything to save logging in all the time?

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Installing now. Looking forward to seeing what it has to offer.

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I tried it for a few minutes - as Tez said, the adverts were a pain, I've got so used to FF3 & NoScript...

I'm sure it is tweakable, but so far it offers no huge advantage to make the effort worthwhile, imo.

Not that it is 'bad', just inertia favours the familiar, in my case :)

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Does the google toolbar work on it? That's where I store all my favourites.

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It's pants.

Windows XP install crashed with a message window "welcome to google chrome" stuck in the midst of my screen. Bookmarks didn't install from Firefox despite the promises.

Worst of all though it won't run websites I am forced to use for work that have something going on in the background like active-x applets. If it can't handle those, it's no better or worse than Firefox, and for many business users will be as useful as a chocolate fireguard.

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Imported all my Firefox settings perfectly including the toolbar, converted all the favicon only bookmarks correctly too.

Nthellworld.co.uk looks a mess on it mind.

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I've noticed it seems to be 'doing something' in the background a lot, I can hear my HD buzzing away and task manager is showing Chrome is up to something.

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Think i'll wait for a final version to play with. Back to the Opera for me. :)

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Same here FF3 until such time as there is a adblock in Chrome

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Give it a chance Rob, it is a beta after all :)

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I like it, its fast and intuitive but it requires as others have said an ad blocker, cant stand ad's. Not many options to play with and I'm wondering what googleupdate.exe is, also although I have 1 instance of the browser open there are 4 instances of chrome.exe running.

Back to FF3 for me.

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Does the number of instances tie up with the number of tabs you have open?

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Ye, the more tabs you have open, the more resources the system uses. I have 10 tabs open in Opera at the moment, and it's using up 111MB of memory.

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Also, and I dont know if it is connected with the installation and subsequent uninstall of Chrome but whenever I right click on an image in FF3 and try to save the image FF throws error and crashes and it wasnt doing it yesterday.

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In case anyone wanted a reason not to use Chrome and stick with Firefox, here are several. Read /.

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Just had it removed from the systems that I'm responsible for (even though we were only trialling it in VM Workstation) and won't be allowing it back on them until it's had a lot more scrutiny and a lot of questions have been asked and answered.

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Why would google want to introduce an adblocker when they rely so heavily on adsense to make money?

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Looks like that would give google more power than those nasty Phorm People :(

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Yep, already some other vulnerabilities starting to surface - notice that MilWorm has one published now as well.

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Looks like it applies to all Google services, not just Chrome:

https://www.google.com/accounts/TOS?hl=en

See point 11.1

So it would apply to Gmail, and hopefully for foreverwar's sake, not Google Gears

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OK 12 pages published in 2 days and not got the time to look through them all....

But has anyone mentioned or discussed yet the EULA as posted on the register?????

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Its open source so why not, Does not have to be goggle that writes the add ons

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GOGGLE?? :dozey:

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Consumer, not Edu.......;)

Different T&C's.

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using it now look good and fast

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Had a quick try, decided to perhaps try again on spare PC when final version comes out. Opinions on here seem to vary from hot to very cool

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Was loving it until earlier when it gave me a 'fatal error' Had to restart my PC and ever since then my PC won't restart, i have to switch it on/off from the button on the tower!

And it's made FF stop loading pages! I'm uninstalling right now.

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Reading that article and the comments brings up an interesting point. They seem to be trying to use the license to give themselves carte blanche to break every form of copyright under the sun and blame it on someone else.

They've essentially ruled it out of all commercial and corporate environments - knowing some companies, down the level of it being a disciplinary offence to install it. I'll be interested to see how my employer (who does a lot of in-progress work via web browsers) views that I must admit - and currently the only exemption they have is Skype not being allowed because of P2P/security risks (apparently).

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As I stated earlier, the Commercial and Education T&C's are different from the Consumer version. ;)

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You think Google the king of internet advertising is going to develop an adblocker from Chrome!!!!

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What's to stop someone else making one though?

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They are going to change but it was based on confusion from people reading it:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...change-it.html

The services applied to their actual sites and not stuff done though the browser. But basically, Google are not asking you for all your data

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Interesting article about the "Omnibox" linked from that Ars article:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10...dStoriesArea.0

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Sounds much better to me.

GoogleUpdater.exe still calls home every 10 - 15mins though, uninstalled, and binned on my machine (and GoogleUpdater.exe blocked from net access and manually removed)

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Yep, even I'm willing to try it :) Now that's saying something ;) :p:

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:rofl:

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if its checking for updates i dont mind, what i do mind is things installing extra things that run 24/7 without telling me or giving me the option, then not uninstalling it afterwards!

i've left it installed (with the updater removed) on my web testing VM as its quicker to start than safari, other than a testing browser for webkit based browsers there is no further use for me

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Seems Chrome may be doing more with https pages than just displaying them...
HTTPS sites indexed.

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Good grief !!!
:shocked:

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Oh come on, small mistake that is.
How many of you here use personal banking sites without clearing cookies, cache etc before and after?

And a simple fix surely? It is a beta browser, and they DO want feedback... (Uninstall it to see what i mean...)

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I should add that although I've posted the link I haven't got Chrome installed to check it - I'd be interested to see if anyone here gets the same results.

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Uninstalled it on my machine, due to googleupdater.exe issue.

Currently using FX3

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Well I tried it - accessed my credit card, checked, then signed out.
Went to the next tab, and tried to search the history, but all it gave me was the credit card login page.
A lot of people look for things wrong that are not there and start hysteria!

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Is it a beta one

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All google stuff is beta (google VP's words on Monday to me and some colleagues).

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New? I don't see how, Google's 1 only ranks as #12 on their own search engine. If you don't exclude non-browser-based services then 3d chat has been around for even longer. Second Life, for example, has been going for about 5 years now I think.

Me, for 1. Nobody else has access to my machine. And the only cookies that I allow when visiting a banking site are the banks' own, if they require it for logging in. Any others are blocked, as I have cookies blocked by default, & only allow them on a per-site basis, when needed [via the Cookie Button extension].

I think I'll stick with Firefox 3 for now. I would be using the 64bit version, but it would mean doing without Flash, or having to load 32bit Firefox anytime I wanted to watch something on Youtube, etc.

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Did you uninstall Windows as well because that has Windows Update - and also Firefox updater?

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Buzz off :P

Least we know what the other 2 do, this one is unknown at the moment, and was phoning home every 10 minutes on my machine for updates, which, to me, is unacceptable.
The worst part is however, that it was sometimes launching 2 or 3 of them. Unacceptable IMO. (and most probably yours too, now you know what I mean :) )

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Oh, and windows update and Firefox update can both be switched off, this one can't be to my knowledge. (Without deleting the file)

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I uninstalled it on my machine thought it took most off the memory

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Really? I thought the opposite. It doesn't take much up on my machine - same on the PC as well.

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Wondering when the FF V Chrome threads will proliferate....


Ohh silly me, this is one already... ;)

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Oh :erm: well it took about 20 minutes to load my computer and usually it takes 2-3 minutes so i thought i'd unistall it Oh well