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Baraka_Guru · 09-05-2008, 03:07 AM

From what I've read here and elsewhere, it sounds like they've a lot of work to do.

Vigilante · 09-05-2008, 09:06 AM

Well, it's beta. This is what beta is about

Laconic, you need to install windows with only one drive installed at the hardware level, otherwise it will never pick the one you want as C. That apparently includes the card reader, but I didn't see that as a problem until now.

Reese · 09-05-2008, 11:05 AM

Chrome's about:memory is saying it's using more memory than firefox with 6 tabs open(Pandora Radio, Wikipedia, Digg, TFP, Youtube, and google) Chrome is using about 7-9% more total memory than Firefox.

That's a fresh install and process of chrome versus Firefox that's been running all day long. Firefox also has a few plugins installed which should be taking up a bit of memory.

There's a few other things, I can't seem to get Chrome to clear my history when I exit the browser. I share a computer and I really value my privacy. They do have the clear history button handy, but I'm lazy and firefox already does this for me.

There's a few other things. I haven't seen a popup blocker but It's possible I just haven't seen any popups yet..

The few things I liked, It opens much faster than firefox. My firefox takes 10 seconds to open sometimes. I think I'm going to like the multi-process browser. I run pandora radio in the background while playing games. It'll really slow down the game after a while. Hopefully I'll just be able to kill the Pandora tab and reopen it to get a little performance back in my game. That's yet to be tested though. The larger viewable area is nice too.

Maybe there will be some good addons soon.

I wasn't even going to try this browser because Firefox has worked fine but decided I better try it for a few weeks because I don't wanna be the last kid on the block that doesn't have it

edit: another thing I just realized, I can't click my mouse wheel to get the auto scroll thing working.. and I can't center click my home button or back buttons to open them in a new tab.. minor inconveniences... oh.. and there's no built in spell check.. wtf.. I'm going back to firefox.

edit again: Just noticed you can open an incognito window where browsing history isn't tracked. That's pretty nice, now I can visit my private sites AND keep public crap pasted on the front page of the browser so i can easily access it later.

Wyodiver33 · 09-05-2008, 12:17 PM

I've been using Chrome for a few days now and I like it a lot. I had no real problem with FF but I'll probably stick with Chrome.

mrklixx · 09-05-2008, 12:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wyodiver33

I've been using Chrome for a few days now and I like it a lot. I had no real problem with FF but I'll probably stick with Chrome.

Might want to change your avatar then.

UKking · 09-07-2008, 11:29 AM

When I installed Chrome, I told it I didn't want the updater. Yet, there it is, running in the background every time I check Task Manager. I turned it off in msconfig to try and stop it coming up at Windows start up, and yet, there it is, running in the background. Again. Still.

Annoying me something terrible!

Xazy · 09-08-2008, 03:55 PM

Great article with information on Chrome.
Link

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Now that you've been enjoying Google Chrome's headliner features and speed for almost a week now, it's time to dig into the less obvious functionality and options you don't already know about. Become a keyboard shortcut master, take a peek under the hood, and customize its behavior and skin with some of the best shortcuts, bookmarklets, themes, add-ons, and subtle functionality in Google Chrome.

What, you don't like Google Chrome? Here, have the power user's guide to Firefox 3.
Mousing Around Chrome

Despite its marketing as a minimalistic browser that forgoes all the extras, Chrome's interface actually sports quite a few useful features. Here are a few that will speed up your browsing with the mouse even more:

* Click and hold (or right-click) the Back or Forward button to go directly to a page far behind or forward in your browsing history.
* When you've got a URL on your clipboard, right-click Chrome's address bar to Paste and go to your destination (and save yourself an extra tap on the Enter key).
* Click and drag any textarea corner to resize it to your liking; great for blog comments, web email, or forums with textareas that aren't big enough to accommodate your masterpiece.
* Ctrl+Mousewheel to zoom in or out of pages in Chrome.
* Drag and drop downloads out of Chrome's status bar and onto your desktop to save them there, or into any Explorer window to save them there. (You already know you can drag and drop a Chrome tab out into a new window, or back into an existing Chrome window to dock it there.)

Chrome's Keyboard Shortcuts

If you're not much for the mouse, you're in luck: Google Chrome has lots of built-in keyboard shortcuts, many of which mirror Firefox's—so you don't have to retrain your fingers. Here are a few of our favorites:

* (Chrome only) Ctrl+B toggles the bookmarks bar on and off.
* (Chrome only) Shift+Escape opens Google Chrome's Task Manager.
* Ctrl+L to move your cursor to the address bar.
* Ctrl+K moves your cursor to the address bar to enter a Google search.
* Ctrl+T opens a new tab.
* Ctrl+N opens a new window.
* Ctrl+Shift+T opens the last closed tab.
* (Chrome only) Ctrl+Shift+N opens a new window in "Incognito Mode."
* Ctrl+Tab cycles through open tabs; Ctrl+Shift+Tab reverse cycles through open tabs.
* Ctrl+J opens the Downloads tab.
* Ctrl+W closes the current tab.
* Ctrl+R refreshes the current page.
* Ctrl+H opens the History tab.
* Alt+Home loads your homepage.
* Ctrl+1 through 9 switches to a particular open tab position.
* Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+0 Enlarges, reduces, and restores default text sizes, respectively.

Tweak Your Options

Hit up Chrome's Options dialog (click on the wrench, and choose Options) to customize Chrome's behavior even more.

* Set multiple tab as your home page. While Chrome's default thumbnail page of your most visited sites is pretty cool, you might want to just skip that step and set the browser to open certain tabs every time. Like Firefox, Chrome can set several tabs as your homepage. In the Options' dialog Basics area, under "Open the following pages," enter the URLs.
* Open the last session's tabs automatically. Also like Firefox, Chrome can automatically restore the tabs from your last browser session. In that same Options area as above, just select "Restore the pages that were open last."
* Add the home button to your toolbar. Chrome's toolbar is pretty sparse by design, but once you've set your homepage(s), you might want to get to them in one click. In the Options dialog's Basics tab, you can also check off "Show Home button on the toolbar."
* Set your default Downloads save location. Also in Options—but under the "Minor Tweaks" tab—you can set Chrome's default download location to something other than the "My Documents" folder.

Master Chrome's Startup Switches

Like all good open source software, Chrome comes with a long list of "startup switches"—that is, parameters you can use when you launch the program to customize its behavior. While most of the switches are only useful to developers, a handful let power users do some handy stuff.

Quick primer: To use a startup switch, create a new Chrome shortcut on your desktop (or elsewhere). Right-click it and choose Properties. In the Target field, add the switch in question immediately following the path to chrome.exe. For example, your target using a -disable-java switch might look like:
"C

ocuments and SettingsginaLocal SettingsApplication DataGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe" -disable-java

Here are some things you can do with Chrome's startup switches.

Tweak the number of suggestions the address bar offers. Increase or reduce the number of suggestions in the address bar drop-down using the -omnibox-popup-count switch. For example, to increase it to 10 suggestions, use -omnibox-popup-count=10. [via The How-To Geek]

Create and maintain multiple user profiles. Since Chrome learns so much from your usage patterns, you might want to create more than one user personality based on the task at hand. For example, you can set up a "work Chrome" and a "play Chrome" user profile (like you can with Firefox's user profiles). While Chrome doesn't offer a handy utility to create new profiles like Firefox does, all it takes is creating a new user directory, and then using Chrome's --user-data-dir startup switch to point it there. The Digital Inspiration blog runs down how to create and use multiple profiles in Chrome.

Speed up browsing by disabling functionality. When you want to surf Flash-free, Java-free, or even Javascript-free (even though that's not really the point of Chrome, but whatever), there's a list of -disable Chrome startup switches that can block plug-ins, content, or features you don't want, like:

-disable-dev-tools
-disable-hang-monitor
-disable-images
-disable-java
-disable-javascript
-disable-logging
-disable-metrics
-disable-metrics-reporting
-disable-plugins
-disable-popup-blocking
-disable-prompt-on-repost

Always start Chrome in a maximized window. Take advantage of all that screen real estate you've got with Chrome. Using the -start-maximized startup switch, the browser will fill your screen on launch, automatically.
Themes

Dress up Google Chrome to your liking by downloading a Chrome theme and saving its default.dll file into the application's Themes directory.

For Windows XP users, by default that folder is:
C

ocuments and SettingsUserLocal SettingsApplication DataGoogleChromeApplication.2.149.29Themes

In Windows Vista it's:
C:UsersUserNameAppDataLocalGoogleChromeApplication.2.149.29Themes

(Note if Google Chrome updates, you may have to change the version number in this path.)
Reveal Chrome's Secret Diagnostic Info

While Chrome doesn't have Firefox's super-handy about:config area, it does have several about: pages that show you all sorts of interesting information about what's going on behind the scenes. Check out Google Chrome's full list of hidden about: pages here.
Get Extras: Bookmarklets, AutoHotkey Scripts, and More Chrome-Related Downloads

While Google Chrome doesn't support extensions (yet), several macros, bookmarklets, and other third-party extras can make working with Chrome easier. Here's a quick list.

* Block ads in Google Chrome with Privoxy. Using free web proxy and ad-blocking software Privoxy, you can block distracting advertisements in Google Chrome.
* Create Custom Chrome keyboard shortcuts with AutoHotKey. Our favorite Windows macro scripting language, AutoHotKey, can make browsing with Chrome via the keyboard even easier. Here's a full Chrome shortcut AHK file that adds nine keyboard shortcuts (including the much-needed "Paste and go" shortcut).
* Preview a web site's RSS feeds, or print a page in one click with bookmarklets. Without toolbars or extensions, plain old bookmarklets come in very hand. Here's a bookmarklet that auto-detects and previews a web site's feed. Here's one that will print the current page. (You can also just hit the Ctrl+P keyboard shortcut).
* Open pages from Firefox in Chrome. If you're browsing in both Firefox and Chrome and like to use Chrome for certain pages, the Open in Google Chrome Firefox extension does just that. With it installed, set certain links to open in Chrome, or select a link and choose "Open in Chrome" manually from the context menu.
* Run Chrome from your thumb drive. When you're in IT lockdown or traveling from computer to computer (but want to keep your Chrome settings), you want the portable, standalone version of Chrome (free download).
* Anonymize your Chrome surfing. Chrome Anonymizer scrambles your unique ID and makes it impossible for anyone to track what you're doing in Chrome.

Shuck off Google's Branding and Go Open Source with Chromium

Switch to the more frequently updated and open source version of the Chrome browser, called Chromium. Google expert Phillip Lennsen explains:

Do you want Google Chrome without Google's branding and with an open source license (BSD license)? Check out Chromium, the open source project created for Google Chrome. You can install the latest snapshots for Windows or download the code and build it in Windows, Mac, Linux.

To install Chromium in Windows, go to the most recent directory from this page (it should be at the top) and download mini_installer.exe. Note that these snapshots could be less stable than the version available at google.com/chrome and you may need to manually update Chromium.

Speaking of updating, you can keep on top of frequent Chromium builds using the Chrome Nightly Builds Updater utility.
Look Forward to What's Coming

Word on the street is that Chrome is coming for Mac and Linux users, as are extensions—plus it'll be in Google's upcoming mobile phone operating system, Android. (Linux users, if you can't want for Chrome and don't want to build Chromium yourself, here's how to run Google Chrome in Ubuntu with WINE.)

What are your favorite Google Chrome tips and tricks? Shout 'em out in the comments.

Gina Trapani, the editor of Lifehacker, likes her Chrome tricked out just so. Her weekly feature, Geek to Live, appears every Monday on Lifehacker. Subscribe to the Geek to Live feed to get new installments in your newsreader.

While I copied it in I would recommend going to the article and reading it for the information.

YaWhateva · 09-16-2008, 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by strjms72

I had 3 Chrome windows open, each with multiple tabs. One of the tabs locked up and crashed, and it took down all 3 browser windows along with the tabs.

At least if Firefox 3 crashes it offers to reload all the pages you had opened previously. Chrome offered nothing after the crash.

That's weird because it's totally not supposed to do that. That's the whole point of having the multithread processing. If one tab dies the others don't. Maybe it's just a bug in the beta.

I'm still using Chrome and I love it. Anybody else still using it?

ironpham · 09-16-2008, 09:33 AM

The one thing that's been really irking me is the fact that I can't press in the wheel and have it do the fast scroll thing like I could in IE and Firefox. Other than that it's alright I guess. The home page is pretty cool.

telekinetic · 09-16-2008, 09:45 AM

I miss Opera's "Left + Right mouse = back or forward" and "open new tab in background" middle click functionality. Other than that, meh. I'm using it, but it seems like they stripped a little too much out of the GUI...I wish I could enable 'verbose' or something.

UKking · 09-16-2008, 01:00 PM

chromeKB.com - Google Chrome Vulnerabilities

DSmith67 · 09-17-2008, 04:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cybermike

edit again: Just noticed you can open an incognito window where browsing history isn't tracked. That's pretty nice, now I can visit my private sites AND keep public crap pasted on the front page of the browser so i can easily access it later.

How did you get that to work?

jewels · 09-17-2008, 04:38 AM

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Originally Posted by DSmith67

How did you get that to work?

Right click the link you want to open in the incognito window and the option is there to choose.

Or click on the page control tool and choose "incognito window" from the drop-down menu.

DSmith67 · 09-17-2008, 04:48 AM

TY... Just needed to look a little more. (Hate reading directions)

spindles · 09-02-2009, 08:09 PM

I had been using firefox excusively, but found that pages that had lots of flash like (Sydney Morning Herald - Business & World News Australia | smh.com.au) just freeze for ages and task mgr shows them using 100% cpu time. This was really killing my machine and short of disabling flash, I was stuffed.

So, I have started using Chrome full time, and must say I'm enjoying it - certainly not the hangs that firefox was having...

Shauk · 09-02-2009, 10:54 PM

Tried it, tried it again, wasn't impressed, tried it again, I just can't make myself like it, despite all the hype. Maybe you notice the speed but I don't. Then again i'm not using a 1900's era Dell computer. I'm not having any issues with firefox/noscript/adblock config

I get the feeling the people having problems with firefox aren't running the above configuration and may be getting memory leaks from various rogue scripts they let run unchecked through the browser.

I promise, running firefox and only running scripts from the intended page that you actually want to view is better than going there with a 'faster' browser running all the scripts irrelevant to your experience.

spindles · 09-03-2009, 07:38 PM

well, the smh.com.au site uses lots of flash for their content - I did use both adblock and flashblock but it made the site just about unusable and given it is my local newspaper, I look at it most days.

Besides ,you shouldn't have to add a third party plugin to make the browser work 'normally'. (I know - flash viewer is a third party plugin, so quite ironic to use another plugin to block it).

Redlemon · 01-08-2010, 12:20 PM

The developer builds of Chrome for Mac now allow for the installation of extensions. I've been using Firefox since 0.3, but today I think I' will leave it behind. Still some things I'm not used to yet, but I'll get there soon.

Shauk · 01-08-2010, 02:54 PM

I'm still keeping my eye on it, I have it on my netbook and it's come along a bit, but it handles flash pretty badly. I'll watch hulu on firefox and it'll stutter from time to time on a netbook because they have really low specs and all, and it takes a performance hit when it needs to clean up the cache to make room for the new video content or next episode I want to watch. chrome, on the other hand, will just completely shit after the 1st episode and require me to close the browser and reopen it to get it to load a following episode.

MSD · 01-09-2010, 10:28 AM

Some flash apps make it hang, but I've used it exclusively (except when I need to download a Youtube video or something FF extension-related) since release day. It does everything two or three times faster than any other browser I've tried.

Redlemon · 01-10-2010, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by MSD

(except when I need to download a Youtube video or something FF extension-related)

Easy Youtube Video Downloader Google Chrome Extensions

Also, the Flash performance seems much better than Firefox, at least on a Mac. There's something inherently wrong happening with Flash and Firefox. That's the main reason I've switched.

YaWhateva · 01-10-2010, 02:55 PM

I've seen Chrome do nothing but handle flash better than IE and Firefox. Firefox handles flash terribly.

MexicanOnABike · 01-10-2010, 03:56 PM

same for me. The only thing that bugs me recently is the flash block or ad block extension installed. They seem to slow me down on refresh.

09-05-2008, 03:07 AM	#81 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	From what I've read here and elsewhere, it sounds like they've a lot of work to do. __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

09-05-2008, 09:06 AM	#82 (permalink)
Vigilante Broken Arrow Location: US	Well, it's beta. This is what beta is about Laconic, you need to install windows with only one drive installed at the hardware level, otherwise it will never pick the one you want as C. That apparently includes the card reader, but I didn't see that as a problem until now. __________________ We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -Winston Churchill

09-05-2008, 11:05 AM	#83 (permalink)
Reese Delicious	Chrome's about:memory is saying it's using more memory than firefox with 6 tabs open(Pandora Radio, Wikipedia, Digg, TFP, Youtube, and google) Chrome is using about 7-9% more total memory than Firefox. That's a fresh install and process of chrome versus Firefox that's been running all day long. Firefox also has a few plugins installed which should be taking up a bit of memory. There's a few other things, I can't seem to get Chrome to clear my history when I exit the browser. I share a computer and I really value my privacy. They do have the clear history button handy, but I'm lazy and firefox already does this for me. There's a few other things. I haven't seen a popup blocker but It's possible I just haven't seen any popups yet.. The few things I liked, It opens much faster than firefox. My firefox takes 10 seconds to open sometimes. I think I'm going to like the multi-process browser. I run pandora radio in the background while playing games. It'll really slow down the game after a while. Hopefully I'll just be able to kill the Pandora tab and reopen it to get a little performance back in my game. That's yet to be tested though. The larger viewable area is nice too. Maybe there will be some good addons soon. I wasn't even going to try this browser because Firefox has worked fine but decided I better try it for a few weeks because I don't wanna be the last kid on the block that doesn't have it edit: another thing I just realized, I can't click my mouse wheel to get the auto scroll thing working.. and I can't center click my home button or back buttons to open them in a new tab.. minor inconveniences... oh.. and there's no built in spell check.. wtf.. I'm going back to firefox. edit again: Just noticed you can open an incognito window where browsing history isn't tracked. That's pretty nice, now I can visit my private sites AND keep public crap pasted on the front page of the browser so i can easily access it later. __________________ “It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick” - Dave Barry Last edited by Reese; 09-05-2008 at 11:44 AM..

09-05-2008, 12:17 PM	#84 (permalink)
Wyodiver33 Just here for the beer. Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Floriduh	I've been using Chrome for a few days now and I like it a lot. I had no real problem with FF but I'll probably stick with Chrome. __________________ I like stuff.

09-16-2008, 09:33 AM	#89 (permalink)
ironpham DOOMTRAIN Location: NC	The one thing that's been really irking me is the fact that I can't press in the wheel and have it do the fast scroll thing like I could in IE and Firefox. Other than that it's alright I guess. The home page is pretty cool. __________________ SIGNATURE.

09-07-2008, 11:29 AM	#86 (permalink)
UKking Crazy	When I installed Chrome, I told it I didn't want the updater. Yet, there it is, running in the background every time I check Task Manager. I turned it off in msconfig to try and stop it coming up at Windows start up, and yet, there it is, running in the background. Again. Still. Annoying me something terrible!

09-16-2008, 09:45 AM	#90 (permalink)
telekinetic zomgomgomgomgomgomg Location: Fauxenix, Azerona	I miss Opera's "Left + Right mouse = back or forward" and "open new tab in background" middle click functionality. Other than that, meh. I'm using it, but it seems like they stripped a little too much out of the GUI...I wish I could enable 'verbose' or something.

09-16-2008, 01:00 PM	#91 (permalink)
UKking Crazy	chromeKB.com - Google Chrome Vulnerabilities

09-17-2008, 04:48 AM	#94 (permalink)
DSmith67 Upright Location: Michigan	TY... Just needed to look a little more. (Hate reading directions)

09-02-2009, 08:09 PM	#95 (permalink)
spindles Mine is an evil laugh Location: Sydney, Australia	I had been using firefox excusively, but found that pages that had lots of flash like (Sydney Morning Herald - Business & World News Australia \| smh.com.au) just freeze for ages and task mgr shows them using 100% cpu time. This was really killing my machine and short of disabling flash, I was stuffed. So, I have started using Chrome full time, and must say I'm enjoying it - certainly not the hangs that firefox was having... __________________ who hid my keyboard's PANIC button?

09-02-2009, 10:54 PM	#96 (permalink)
Shauk Confused Adult Location: Spokane, WA	Tried it, tried it again, wasn't impressed, tried it again, I just can't make myself like it, despite all the hype. Maybe you notice the speed but I don't. Then again i'm not using a 1900's era Dell computer. I'm not having any issues with firefox/noscript/adblock config I get the feeling the people having problems with firefox aren't running the above configuration and may be getting memory leaks from various rogue scripts they let run unchecked through the browser. I promise, running firefox and only running scripts from the intended page that you actually want to view is better than going there with a 'faster' browser running all the scripts irrelevant to your experience.

09-03-2009, 07:38 PM	#97 (permalink)
spindles Mine is an evil laugh Location: Sydney, Australia	well, the smh.com.au site uses lots of flash for their content - I did use both adblock and flashblock but it made the site just about unusable and given it is my local newspaper, I look at it most days. Besides ,you shouldn't have to add a third party plugin to make the browser work 'normally'. (I know - flash viewer is a third party plugin, so quite ironic to use another plugin to block it). __________________ who hid my keyboard's PANIC button?

01-08-2010, 12:20 PM	#98 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	The developer builds of Chrome for Mac now allow for the installation of extensions. I've been using Firefox since 0.3, but today I think I' will leave it behind. Still some things I'm not used to yet, but I'll get there soon. __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

01-08-2010, 02:54 PM	#99 (permalink)
Shauk Confused Adult Location: Spokane, WA	I'm still keeping my eye on it, I have it on my netbook and it's come along a bit, but it handles flash pretty badly. I'll watch hulu on firefox and it'll stutter from time to time on a netbook because they have really low specs and all, and it takes a performance hit when it needs to clean up the cache to make room for the new video content or next episode I want to watch. chrome, on the other hand, will just completely shit after the 1st episode and require me to close the browser and reopen it to get it to load a following episode.

01-09-2010, 10:28 AM	#100 (permalink)
MSD The sky calls to us ... Super Moderator Location: CT	Some flash apps make it hang, but I've used it exclusively (except when I need to download a Youtube video or something FF extension-related) since release day. It does everything two or three times faster than any other browser I've tried.

01-10-2010, 02:55 PM	#102 (permalink)
YaWhateva Friend Location: New Mexico	I've seen Chrome do nothing but handle flash better than IE and Firefox. Firefox handles flash terribly. __________________ “If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.” - Bill O'Reilly "This is my United States of Whateva!"

01-10-2010, 03:56 PM	#103 (permalink)
MexicanOnABike Location: up north	same for me. The only thing that bugs me recently is the flash block or ad block extension installed. They seem to slow me down on refresh. __________________ - Movie Reviews - Ratings-