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BigMoneyJim · 09-02-2008, 05:53 PM

Just heard of it, just downloaded it. I guess I'm slightly caught up in the hype, especially since Google isn't officially evil yet.

I like the idea of separate processes for each tab and the garbage collection as these things seem to be irritants during my FireFox browsing. The start page looks intriguing, and I've been interested in the potential of Google Gears which is included with the Chrome browser.

I only just installed it and browsed to two or three places. There is a spell-checker in this post box much like my FireFox spell checker. I have been using IE7 on my work laptop and new Vista box and FireFox 2 on my main home XP box and mainly miss the spell checker in general browsing.

At first glance I don't see how to control tab behavior. I'm used to switching focus to a new tab when I middle-click to open; that's not the default in any of my browsers, but I quickly found how to change it in the other two. The address bar seems to double as a search bar which actually bugs me; I usually turn off search-from-address-bar, especially on work machines. (Sending a mistyped intranet URI to a public search engine seems like a minor security issue to me.) I also like to click and hold the scroll wheel to scroll, but so far I don't see how to enable that in Chrome. But we're talking about 3-5 minutes of browse testing here, so the jury is still out.

EDIT: The "close tab" X click targets are too small. That is annoying, although control-F4 works fine as a substitute.

09-02-2008, 05:53 PM	#9
BigMoneyJim Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,393	Just heard of it, just downloaded it. I guess I'm slightly caught up in the hype, especially since Google isn't officially evil yet. I like the idea of separate processes for each tab and the garbage collection as these things seem to be irritants during my FireFox browsing. The start page looks intriguing, and I've been interested in the potential of Google Gears which is included with the Chrome browser. I only just installed it and browsed to two or three places. There is a spell-checker in this post box much like my FireFox spell checker. I have been using IE7 on my work laptop and new Vista box and FireFox 2 on my main home XP box and mainly miss the spell checker in general browsing. At first glance I don't see how to control tab behavior. I'm used to switching focus to a new tab when I middle-click to open; that's not the default in any of my browsers, but I quickly found how to change it in the other two. The address bar seems to double as a search bar which actually bugs me; I usually turn off search-from-address-bar, especially on work machines. (Sending a mistyped intranet URI to a public search engine seems like a minor security issue to me.) I also like to click and hold the scroll wheel to scroll, but so far I don't see how to enable that in Chrome. But we're talking about 3-5 minutes of browse testing here, so the jury is still out. EDIT: The "close tab" X click targets are too small. That is annoying, although control-F4 works fine as a substitute.