Comments on: Blogging from Google Chrome

By: Delellis

Delellis — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:30:30 +0000

Wow , very interesting , I have been hearing about Chrome for some time now and I must admit my it has grabbed my interest.

I’m a little hesitant because it’s in it’s beta phase so meaning there might be kinks to be worked out but based on you list of it’s capabilities I thinks it may be worth looking into. thanks^^

By: scoberry

scoberry — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:37:20 +0000

Checkboxes work for me when I’m running Aero, but don’t work if I’m using a different skin, running under Vista.

By: Bubo

Bubo — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:18:29 +0000

ff memory doesnt affect me a lot, in fact google chrome seemed to freeze a bit, i still see no feature which is not matched but a current or future feature of firefox, or a firefox addon.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:16:09 +0000

@Jordan, I mean scrolling with the middle mouse click, links work fine. (@liam, same point, and I agree, it’s very annoying).

The process idea is pretty clever, and seems to make it super fast compared to other browsers.

On top of that, I too haven’t been using anything else since I got Chrome, despite the bugs and lack of features. I’m already addicted!

By: liam

liam — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:53:54 +0000

I hate the fact I can't scroll by using my mouse scroll button. But I'm hoping for this to be fixed some time soon. But since downloading it I've not used anything else, and I truly am surprised that I like it. But so far so good. liams last blog post..Contest: Win a Copy of the brand new Papercut Theme

By: Jordan

Jordan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:00:50 +0000

If you read through the docs on Chrome, you’ll see that they actually mention that each tab is a new process. This would help to troubleshoot something that’s using too much memory, and rather than having to close out your entire browser, you can easily just terminate the process for that particular tab. At first I thought it was annoying to have X amount of processes, but it hasn’t had a negative effect.

Also, I’m able to use the mouse-wheel to click on links. Might want to check out preferences, or see if you can get ahold of a config file in the browser to see that it’s not disabled or anything.

Other than that now I’m just playing the waiting game until someone ports over the web development add-on to Chrome :D

By: Hastings

Hastings — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:03:39 +0000

All I can say is that I’ll surely be waiting until at least a few betas have bit the dust, possibly even an RC. Google stuff always tends to be very buggy and lack a few random features the first few rounds, but they always get right on track and do a good job. Can’t wait to see how this evolves.

By: styletime

styletime — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:26:40 +0000

@nick glad you ended that last comment with, ‘who can blame them for trying’ at the end of the day these big corps are still companies who have to earn money just like the little guys!

anything that enhances my experience is welcome to me, I’m happy to be a google fan so happy with this latest move…

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By: RaSh

RaSh — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:48:23 +0000

My first comment when I saw it: Wow!
A typical Google Product, Simple & neat interface (Still having cool looks), Nice changes from the conventional features (Dragging of Tabs, Task Manager etc.)

But after reading Stepan’s comment here, I just found out it’s already taking 100MB+ (With only 2 tabs open!) Maybe that’s why there’s the task manager… :D

Hopefully Add-ons, themes etc. will roll out soon! Till then, I’m not leaving FF :)

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By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:23:48 +0000

@Avenuegirl I would also like FireFox to pull through. I do feel as if Google has done this in, to be frank, bad taste. Instead of this, they could work with Mozilla to get FireFox this speedy, but it seems they want to take over the world single-handedly. Who can blame them for trying!

By: Avenuegirl

Avenuegirl — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:11:01 +0000

I guess I’ll be waiting to see if the hoopla is worth it. I think the amount of people who own Macs is highly underrated.

I’ve been extremely happy with firefox for the past few years and I don’t even know what IE is anymore.

Google has enough of my attention with blogger and knols, adsense, adwords, etc. I hope firefox pulls through this one.

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By: styletime

styletime — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:05:54 +0000

@nick i think its just a consequence of being open for 18 hours and it all just leaks and leaks and leaks and yep leaks ;) going to import all my bookmarks into google and use Chrome for web hopping leaving FF for only the heavy duty stuff that i need the addons for! styletimes last blog post..Styletime, BlogActionDay contest!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:48:21 +0000

@Stepan: didn’t notice the processes, now I see them. It started off as one for me, and only every few tabs does a new one appear. It might be something to do with the way Chrome processes web pages. Still, the overall ram usage is still low here. As for feeds, I just noticed this, I also noticed no feed icon in the address bar which I gather is important (not a feed user myself). Also, on Feedburner, the link for view feed xml doesn’t exist in Chrome for me, nor does it load (loads original). I expect this is simply a feature Google haven’t introduced. Anyway, thanks for letting me know, I’ve added it to the original post. Lastly, lack of addons and OSX will hopefully be fixed soon :)

By: Stepan Mazurov

Stepan Mazurov — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:42:34 +0000

I’m not sure if you noticed but chrome spawns a process for each tab + a few lingering ones that do not seem to have any affect on anything. I have noticed that it spawns a few processes that are not used by anything and its not easy to figure out which ones are tabs and which aren’t. Comparing

Its also terrible at displaying feeds without stylesheets (basically no RSS feed comes with one except for feedburned ones).

Those 2 plus the fact that I can’t install addons and no OS X version is a tough sell for me.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:40:39 +0000

@Itirel I never bother with ad blockers, but I can almost guarantee one will arrive some time, if Chrome supports addons?

@Tyler as I said in my post, Chrome is both significantly faster at loading pages and it uses lots less RAM (less than a quarter in fact, which is… amazing). As for checkboxes, still not working.

@Heather: Passwords seem to be working on most sites, but not all for me.

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:31:55 +0000

I just downloaded chrome and it offered to save the password. I know that may not be helpful in your case but I’ve had it ask. :) Maybe it’s choosy–it was g-mail it asked for.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:30:24 +0000

Checkboxes work fine for me.

I’m not a fan of how the file type inputs are displayed though. And really, I don’t see a speed difference between this and FF.

Its cool, overall, but do we really need yet another browser? I have to support so many already.

By: Itirel

Itirel — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:29:43 +0000

I agree with you on the bookmark thing, also, more importantly… no ad blocker? I can’t browse the internet without Adblock Plus.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:21:37 +0000

344mb? That’s just INSANE. How many tabs were you running? I normally have about 50 (getting close in Chrome already :))

By: styletime

styletime — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:19:14 +0000

I agree fast and furious! FF was running at 344Mb when i shut it down! styletimes last blog post..Styletime, BlogActionDay contest!