It's called "Chrome", and I think I like it! It seems to be small, fast, stable... Beta, still, but I think it COULD do some damage in the "browser world". Seems to have many characteristics of Firefox 2 (NOT the "not-ready-for-prime-time" Firefox 3).
I like it... Give it a shot, kids!
I'm also going to be trying the new IE8, soon... Too much happening in browsers, all of a sudden...
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It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
Google Chrome = Mozilla/5.0 (...) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
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the12volt • Support the12volt.comerrr.... Safari with a new skin.
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the12volt • Support the12volt.comWell, yeah, but ALL browsers are built on someone else's language, aren't they... I think it's all about implementation. Google really does seem to have done a pretty good job with this one.
Sure, you look at it from a CODING aspect... I support users, and I feel I can actually recommend this one to quite a few of my client base.
Never mind the
DoS vulnerability, I think that's a small issue, personally. 99+% of all users of this software wouldn't ever be affected by that anyway. Plus, BETAs are always plagued with "coding issues".
I said small. I have IE6 running on my machine right now. No tabs, no plug-ins running. In fact, it's viewing the12volt.com. 431K of RAM! ONE HALF OF ONE GIG OF RAM!!! One page! That is obscene! Chrome? TWO INSTANCES of chrome.exe for a grand total of 59K. Eight times LESS RAM used. A nice selling point for "older" machines, with potentially less RAM, or less CPU than a more "current" user would have. A machine running Vista on 512MB of RAM (don't laugh, I've seen it... on brand new boxes from BestBuy) would WELCOME a small footprint browser like this. As far as install size, since IE6 doesn't have a dedicated install directory, but sprinkles itself throughout the OS, I have no idea what it's install footprint is, but Chrome is 71MB. That's pretty small, really.
Better virus immunity, smaller, faster. I think I'll play with it for a while, but so far, I like it! :)
Feel like "kicking the tires"?
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It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
My "errr" was for prematurely submitting my first post. As a user, I like Chrome more than Safari and neither have presented any coding problems other than a very few CSS issues.
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the12volt • Support the12volt.comAnd re-reading that, it sounds like a "chastize"... It isn't, it was a listing of a few observances...
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It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
Tried to down load it last week and I failed, oh woe is me. Bugger it I'm getting a baby next week running an Atom chip on Linux so I don't suppose it wil matter too much. Getting sick of carrying my 15.4 laptop around.
I can't scroll up with scroll wheel on mouse, only down in Chrome. Only me? Works OK in IE.
Chrome being open source, I can hardly wait to see how it evolves.
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Prepare your future. It wasn't the lack of stones that killed the stone age.