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[Helmaroc]

It's not chrome, they lie. Safari is shinier than that.

[Torak]

I'd use it if my middle mouse button worked on it.

[penguinofhonor]

I'll definitely try Chrome in a while. Once it gets a few extensions.

I despise ads.

[Rilder]

The middle mouse button scrolling works fine for me.

Mine doesn't.

Also Chrome is open source iirc.

[Sappho]

Sappho waves her hands around, chants some magic words, and watches the partially decayed corpse of the thread rise up...

So I pretty much ignored this Chrome business until very recently.  Suddenly it is massively important to me.  Since I've moved to Prague, the Facebook and Gmail pages have been finicky at best.  At times I'd wait twenty minutes just for my Facebook status to update, and the chat?  Fuggedabahdit.  I'd avoid Facebook completely if I didn't have friends all over the world (and laggy/buggy as it is, it's still the most effective way to keep in touch), but Gmail...  I can't give up Gmail.

I assumed it was some problem with the internet system here in the CZR, since everyone around me was having the same trouble.  Today, however, Facebook had ground completely to a halt, and suddenly Gmail wouldn't load the text editor at all (so I couldn't write any emails).  Other sites loaded just fine.  I've been getting a lot of pop-ups lately about Firefox's new version and on a hunch decided to try another one - just in case.  I didn't want to touch Explorer, and being the Google fangirl I am, I figured their new(ish) browser deserved a shot.

Facebook and Gmail both loaded up as though they were running from the hard drive.  No delays, no problems.  How is this possible?  I've been unable to run either site properly on Firefox OR Explorer since I entered this country.

If Chrome had equivalents for Adblock and NoScript, I'd convert in a heartbeat.  After years of using nothing but Firefox, the possibility that something could be better never even crossed my mind.  But I'm not willing to risk all the icky virusy stuff I used to get in the Explorer days...  So unless there's a javascript/ad blocker for Chrome that I don't know about, I'll probably only use it for the safest of safe sites.

So now I'm curious, has anyone else been having problems with Firefox lately?  Anyone else been using Chrome in the year since it came out have any new feedback to offer?  And is anyone considering running this Google OS that's supposed to be coming out soon?

[Ampersand]

There is plugin support for Chrome, but it's not extremely simple yet, as it is with Firefox. Chromium is also open source, so development is rapid, just not as fast as we'd all like to see.

Anyway, here's where you need to go. Unfortunately, development for the plugin has halted, but as soon as real plugin support is implemented, expect good things.

http://www.adsweep.org/

Also, if anyone wants to know one of the actual reasons why Google Chrome is worth noting, try running the Acid3 test on any web browser you're running. IE will fail horribly, Firefox will come very close, and Google Chrome and possibly Safari will pass.

[IndonesiaWarMinister]

Hmm...

I want to dual-use with chrome (on my older computer) But I know that google is actively monitoring my internet browsing if I use it.

Do anyone knew the plug-in that MUST BE installed to disable the whole private-data-sending to google?

[Ampersand]

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/09/24/iron-chrome-for-privacy-fanatics/

Use Iron instead.

[breadbocks]

To stop the FF thread from getting more Chrome posts and FF posts.

For stopping google monitoring me, I've been using ghostery and AdBlock. Extremely satisfied. Oh, and I got greasemonkey on it. As it turns out, Google tracked down the guy who made gm, and said "Make these work nicely together". :3

[tehc]

[Max White]

We only do that for that one specific thread in questions.

[freeformschooler]

Now that the thread has risen up from beyond the grave I would just like to say I have Chrome and it has given me many more problems than Opera has.

[Alexhans]

So... Use Opera?

I think I'll have to change my sig to "Browser Wars are stupid.  Be constructive or state your goal."

[freeformschooler]

No, use Opera if you're like me and have extensively tested both of them and find it's better. Browser wars are stupid, though.

[breadbocks]

Now that the thread has risen up from beyond the grave I would just like to say I have Chrome and it has given me many more problems than Opera has.

What sorts of problems?