Google Chrome?

[Darren B]

I recon Gabe made them up

[gabrielcrowe]

hahaha, sure did.

[Mark H]

Very quick, options a bit limited eg with mixed content you can either allow automatically or not, there is no "ask".

[mattc]

i'm really enjoying it. Its very fast - much quicker than safari - although having all those processes isn't so great.

(wrote this in chrome)

[Jarvis]

Smallprint on the Agreement: (My bold)

"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."

I'm being picky I know, but this is a browser we're talking about.

[bangers]

Hi Guys,
I'm also checking out chrome and got to say initial thoughts are that I love it and it is going to be a winner.

This was the first place I came to see others opinions, I trust the judgement of the community! However one thing I don't think that is an improvement on FF or IE is handling of rss feeds (it doesn't effect most Actinic sites).

In fact I realise chrome's idea is to strip down all the gadgets found on other browsers but I happen to find RSS handling v.useful and have built sites with ie and ff handling in mind.

Do you think they are missing a trick here? Or a good idea to strip it down to a pure browser (agree with Gab, the desktop shortcuts are v.useful)

regards
bangers

[RuralWeb]

could the reason behind the new browser be that googles pages don't render very well in ie8 which is soon to be released and google is hoping people will jump ship to them. Once they are all there then who knows what big g has planned

[Paul Bulpit]

"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."

Google have withdrawn this statement, and applied the withdrawal retrospectively to anyone who downloaded it previously.

Apparently caused by copying & pasting the EULA!

Would have been a bit worrying otherwise!

Source of information

[guccij]

Has anyone found yet how to turn off underlining links? It's the only thing (so far) which I really don't like about Chrome.

[pinbrook]

could the reason behind the new browser be that googles pages don't render very well in ie8 which is soon to be released and google is hoping people will jump ship to them. Once they are all there then who knows what big g has planned

sadly i'm with M on this one, i too am concerned at the global dominance of google whilst interested in the war between MS and google (this concerns me less as i like to see a scrap between big corps)

Recently i've become a fan of google docs, online collaboration for xls files has proved a big hit here, I use google calendar too but another browser?

i keep thinking i ought to open my browser at my google i page but can not bring myself to do it.

[Duncan Rounding]

Some points, such as not able to remove a frequent site and RSS fields etc, are mentioned here:
http://www.google.com/support/chrome...ssues_2&&hl=en

[RuralWeb]

ie8 may prove more of a problem to people than an extra browser to test a site on.

[malbro]

whilst interested in the war between MS and google (this concerns me less as i like to see a scrap between big corps)

reminiscent of the war between IBM and MS in the 80's, and look where that got us.

[Kirk]

I lol'd when a page crashed and Google's error message read "oh, snap".

[Jarvis]

As an Actinic designer as well as a designer of 'standard' web sites, it is always a concern to me that any browser is W3C compliant.
There is always a requirement for web designers to comply with some pretty constraining coding standards, especially when designing with 'Accessibility' in mind.

Unfortunately, different browser designers have taken their own interpretation of the standards to the extent that, to a large degree, the standards are compromised.

Even if you look at, for example, the W3C standards for CCS, they themselves admit to discrepancy and ambiguity and suggest that designers look at the new 'proposed' standards when implementing code.

The point I make is that in the absence of accurate and unambiguous standards, what new twists on interpretation have Google introduced?

From a designers point of view, how fast the browser renders, what gimmicks and toys it has, or what data it collects for whatever purpose is almost irrelevant.
It's how it interprets code that matters.