Comments on: Google’s Chrome browser blows Microsoft out of the water http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/03/googles-chrome-browser-blows-microsoft-out-of-the-water/ now with extra source Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:23:56 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Chris http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/03/googles-chrome-browser-blows-microsoft-out-of-the-water/#comment-12294 Chris Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12294 Please. Google's day old, preview release, browser has done no such thing. The author of this article has a blatant bias against Microsoft and will clearly leap on anything to justify their position. Their opinion is hardly news worthy and should have been left to the blogwatch section.<br />Google's new browser offers little new to the market and is giving most web designers a hard time rationalising their love for all things google and their annoyance at having yet another browser to tweak their website for. Please. Google’s day old, preview release, browser has done no such thing. The author of this article has a blatant bias against Microsoft and will clearly leap on anything to justify their position. Their opinion is hardly news worthy and should have been left to the blogwatch section.
Google’s new browser offers little new to the market and is giving most web designers a hard time rationalising their love for all things google and their annoyance at having yet another browser to tweak their website for.

]]> By: Paul http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/03/googles-chrome-browser-blows-microsoft-out-of-the-water/#comment-12295 Paul Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12295 Did someone get paid for writing this twaddle?<br /><br />"gives the open source community a lot to worry about too."<br /><br />Chrome _is_ open source and as such is far from a worry to the open source community.<br /><br />http://code.google.com/chromium/<br /><br />Google brings some fresh ideas and a bit of magic on top of some existing open source technologies (such as Webkit) and adds to the open source community with it's own components (The javascript VM and Google Gears).<br /><br /> Did someone get paid for writing this twaddle?

“gives the open source community a lot to worry about too.”

Chrome _is_ open source and as such is far from a worry to the open source community.

http://code.google.com/chromium/

Google brings some fresh ideas and a bit of magic on top of some existing open source technologies (such as Webkit) and adds to the open source community with it’s own components (The javascript VM and Google Gears).

]]> By: JayStar http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/03/googles-chrome-browser-blows-microsoft-out-of-the-water/#comment-12296 JayStar Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12296 Well I'm all for innovation but to be frank from a web designers point of view this just makes us more work with additional compatibility testing. Now we have to test yet another site for browser rendering. Seeing as F.F is just across the road from the Googleplex as Larry Page says why not throw your resources into their 'not for profit' Mozilla foundation. Also it seems the team at Microsoft now have something for their legal team to consider anti-trust allegations on big G. Well I’m all for innovation but to be frank from a web designers point of view this just makes us more work with additional compatibility testing. Now we have to test yet another site for browser rendering. Seeing as F.F is just across the road from the Googleplex as Larry Page says why not throw your resources into their ‘not for profit’ Mozilla foundation. Also it seems the team at Microsoft now have something for their legal team to consider anti-trust allegations on big G.

]]> By: Chris http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/03/googles-chrome-browser-blows-microsoft-out-of-the-water/#comment-12297 Chris Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12297 Also interesting are some of the concerns being raised about the Terms of Service agreement entered into with Google when installing Chrome.<br />http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/chromes-evil-terms-of-service.html<br />Most software comes with eyebrow raising conditions attached these days and it is good to see Google is no different. Also interesting are some of the concerns being raised about the Terms of Service agreement entered into with Google when installing Chrome.
http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/chromes-evil-terms-of-service.html
Most software comes with eyebrow raising conditions attached these days and it is good to see Google is no different.

]]> By: Cynical http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/03/googles-chrome-browser-blows-microsoft-out-of-the-water/#comment-12298 Cynical Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12298 Well, I downloaded Chrome this morning and gave it a half hour tryout. Admittedly, it's a Beta version but it does seem to have a few problems. My reaction is that it's slow. Slower than Firefox & IE. Sometimes the vertical slidebar works, sometimes it doesn't. No apparent reason why.<br /><br />It doesn't seem able to play videos. That is - say you're browsing a newspaper and you click on the "video" link regarding the article. In Firefox or IE this just pops up another tab (or window) and plays the video. In Chrome - the new tab opens but the video won't run. Perhaps there might be some new plugins that need to be installed but there is no button to say "install plugins" and no hint anywhere that this might be needed.<br /><br />What irked me most was Chrome's poor organisation of Favorites (or Bookmarks). I followed their instructions for importing bookmarks from Firefox and it just lumps them all together in a folder called "other Bookmarks". To then organise these into new folders by category you have to do it on a very slow on-by-one process. It doesn't have a window where you can organise bookmarks like Firefox. Each time you select one bookmark to transfer to a new folder - the list of all bookmarks in "Other" goes off and you then have to bring it back again before you can start the next single transfer. Bloody awful!<br /><br />Perhaps I'm doing something wrong?? Is there some other software I need to install to make it work better? Well, I downloaded Chrome this morning and gave it a half hour tryout. Admittedly, it’s a Beta version but it does seem to have a few problems. My reaction is that it’s slow. Slower than Firefox & IE. Sometimes the vertical slidebar works, sometimes it doesn’t. No apparent reason why.

It doesn’t seem able to play videos. That is - say you’re browsing a newspaper and you click on the “video” link regarding the article. In Firefox or IE this just pops up another tab (or window) and plays the video. In Chrome - the new tab opens but the video won’t run. Perhaps there might be some new plugins that need to be installed but there is no button to say “install plugins” and no hint anywhere that this might be needed.

What irked me most was Chrome’s poor organisation of Favorites (or Bookmarks). I followed their instructions for importing bookmarks from Firefox and it just lumps them all together in a folder called “other Bookmarks”. To then organise these into new folders by category you have to do it on a very slow on-by-one process. It doesn’t have a window where you can organise bookmarks like Firefox. Each time you select one bookmark to transfer to a new folder - the list of all bookmarks in “Other” goes off and you then have to bring it back again before you can start the next single transfer. Bloody awful!

Perhaps I’m doing something wrong?? Is there some other software I need to install to make it work better?

]]> By: Classified http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/03/googles-chrome-browser-blows-microsoft-out-of-the-water/#comment-12299 Classified Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12299 It's very, very quick. So far I'm happy It’s very, very quick. So far I’m happy

]]> By: Classified http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/03/googles-chrome-browser-blows-microsoft-out-of-the-water/#comment-12300 Classified Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12300 ***Cynical***<br /><br />Mate, It imported all my settings, bookmarks etc seamlessly... not sure whats happened to yours. I know that FF must be closed before you import (its gives you a warning if FF is running, it says if you don't close FF first, there might be problems)<br /><br />Uninstall then reinstall making sure FF is closed, should be no problems ***Cynical***

Mate, It imported all my settings, bookmarks etc seamlessly… not sure whats happened to yours. I know that FF must be closed before you import (its gives you a warning if FF is running, it says if you don’t close FF first, there might be problems)

Uninstall then reinstall making sure FF is closed, should be no problems

]]> By: David Sanderson http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/03/googles-chrome-browser-blows-microsoft-out-of-the-water/#comment-12301 David Sanderson Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12301 I have started using IE8 beta and it is a massive disappointment mainly because it constantly crashes. I've tried Chrome but it does seem to be a little feature-light but I will follow its development with interest. In the meantime I will stick with Firefox although I am annoyed that I cannot get new tabs to open next to the existing tab (instead they open at the end forcing you to go looking for the new tab if you have a lot of tabs open). I have started using IE8 beta and it is a massive disappointment mainly because it constantly crashes. I’ve tried Chrome but it does seem to be a little feature-light but I will follow its development with interest. In the meantime I will stick with Firefox although I am annoyed that I cannot get new tabs to open next to the existing tab (instead they open at the end forcing you to go looking for the new tab if you have a lot of tabs open).

]]> By: Daniel http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/03/googles-chrome-browser-blows-microsoft-out-of-the-water/#comment-12302 Daniel Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12302 You obviously are not a Webmaster. "Firefox is a fine browser that has won plenty of market share" is arrant nonsense. Share is about 25% at the very upper level according to my Stat Counter, versus ~70% for IE.<br /><br />I run a 40-page site that has had a mountain of page display probs thru FF, most still unresolved. Even their support forum can't fix them - so much so that I have to incl a rider on each page that the site is best viewed thru IE. FF is a dog for Webmasters - yet not one single prob with IE. <br /><br />Maybe G knows this - that's why they've improved on it with Chrome. If Chrome kills FF there will only be rejoicing from countless website builders. You obviously are not a Webmaster. “Firefox is a fine browser that has won plenty of market share” is arrant nonsense. Share is about 25% at the very upper level according to my Stat Counter, versus ~70% for IE.

I run a 40-page site that has had a mountain of page display probs thru FF, most still unresolved. Even their support forum can’t fix them - so much so that I have to incl a rider on each page that the site is best viewed thru IE. FF is a dog for Webmasters - yet not one single prob with IE.

Maybe G knows this - that’s why they’ve improved on it with Chrome. If Chrome kills FF there will only be rejoicing from countless website builders.

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