Chrome is overhyped.

[quote name='ragde' post='2626605' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:34 AM']IT here. Fix computers for so many people a week. Never had a problem. I even install Chrome on every single computer and never had a problem. Actually that's the first thing I do install Chrome because IE is BS. all the people love it. It loads some faster than Firefox and Opera (exclude IE cus that's BS). So, I don't see the problem with Chrome. Every computer takes it easily.[/quote]
No one's said anything about my problem yet. So I'll go ahead and bring it up again since everyone keeps saying Chrome is FLAWLESS yet no one has commented on what I said.

Chrome sucks at handling more than 10 tabs at once. This makes for horrible imageboard browsing when there's something like 50 pages of manga uploaded.

I have windows 7 64 bit.. Never I mean Never had a problem..... I've been using it for a few months now I even uninstalled firefox and stuck with google chrome..

[quote name='BeatriceTheGolden' post='2626609' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:38 AM'][quote name='ragde' post='2626605' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:34 AM']IT here. Fix computers for so many people a week. Never had a problem. I even install Chrome on every single computer and never had a problem. Actually that's the first thing I do install Chrome because IE is BS. all the people love it. It loads some faster than Firefox and Opera (exclude IE cus that's BS). So, I don't see the problem with Chrome. Every computer takes it easily.[/quote]
No one's said anything about my problem yet. So I'll go ahead and bring it up again since everyone keeps saying Chrome is FLAWLESS yet no one has commented on what I said.

Chrome sucks at handling more than 10 tabs at once. This makes for horrible imageboard browsing when there's something like 50 pages of manga uploaded.
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Plus Firefox has an imageboard plugin, if I believe.

Another thing, Chrome seems rather oversimplified. Almost no special features (FF's addons, Opera's numerous things like IRC and bittorrent, etc.) are in chrome. It's like Google wants you to visit NO SITES THAN WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO VISIT.

Why would you want a damn bittorent on your browser thats why you get Utorrent its small and works great.... And btw Chrome has extensions >.> which is all I need..

Yes chrome does have extensions, in fact here is one that may solve your problem Beatrice: http://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail...ieeeadojiibgbdp

You know, chrome has a test branch you can use that has features before the stable branch gets them, people were making and using themes and extensions before they came to the stable branch.

The current stable (4.0.x) added bookmark sync, HTML5 support, and new developer tools, and the current testing (5.0.x) adds privacy management, page translation, and more.

In the computer world things aren't static, and it pays to take a few seconds to look something up before you post about it to make sure your info is still up to date.

wow, some very divided responses...

Even if Chrome did work flawlessly, it doesn't change the fact that it was missing some of the fonts I use while building my webs.com site/blog/whatever you want to call webs.

And then there's that annoying window that pops up every time I go to Gamespot, saying there's some sort of security risk.

I also agree that it seems to be too simplified. I simply like the layout of Firefox much, much better. The tabs are where they belong, not at the very top!

Chrome exemplifies what is wrong with technology at the moment. It's been so dumbed down and streamlined into very basic internet searches and commercial, specific 'apps.' People don't want to orchestrate applications on their computer, and manipulate their files, settings, programs to their liking, they want a bottom-line, least common denominator type thing. That's what Chrome is, and why it's also being passed off as an 'operating system' (I believe Chromium OS is merely the chrome browser that loads on startup... and that's it).

I use Chrome and I think its the best web browser but thats just personal preference I guess, but I havent had any problems like you've mentioned.

[quote name='BortzANATOR' post='2626429' date='Feb 27 2010, 11:36 PM']Well i dont use chrome. I dont like the idea of Google keeping tabs on me. Specifically...[/quote]
use chromium instead? http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/continuous/LATEST/

but since that is the absolute newest revision you're downloading it's possible you might run into an issue, if so, just download chromium from their again some time later.

[quote name='Danny Tanner' post='2627757' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:20 PM']Chrome exemplifies what is wrong with technology at the moment. It's been so dumbed down and streamlined into very basic internet searches and commercial, specific 'apps.' People don't want to orchestrate applications on their computer, and manipulate their files, settings, programs to their liking, they want a bottom-line, least common denominator type thing. That's what Chrome is, and why it's also being passed off as an 'operating system' (I believe Chromium OS is merely the chrome browser that loads on startup... and that's it).[/quote]

LOL, I found a vid about that:

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This video is full of so much BS, just to draw in computer n00bs. It also shows how lazy people are becoming.

NONE of the "problems" in the vid are problems, they can all be dealt with if you know what you're doing. And Chrome is NOT faster than FF or IE, it depends on your connection speeds. And the inability to save things to your drive, only to the internet? IT'S HOW GOOGLE WATCHES YOU FOR PIRACY OR ANYTHING ELSE ILLEGAL!

"your computer slows down and gets 'rusty' "? Not if you defrag, run disk cleanup, and run your antivirus on a regular basis. Also, BIOS is NOT part of the operating system. It's part of the computer itself, to tell the computer how to start up! /facepalm

Annoying update notifications? Then UPDATE, make your computer better, and get rid of the popup! Amazing!

I LMAO'd at how he described the browser and the computer. You can totally tell this is targeting n00bs that don't know what they're doing

EDIT: No offense at anyone here who knows what they're doing and are using it. But I highly suggest going back to Linux, Windows, Mac OS, or whatever you used before.

[quote name='chrisman01' post='2627802' date='Feb 28 2010, 06:43 PM']You can totally tell this is targeting n00bs that don't know what they're doing [/quote]

That's the whole point.

Chrome was really good when I tried it. I even used it as my main browser for quite some time. What made me go back to Opera was the big lack of features. Seriously, it's got as much features as IE6. But the browser itself is really good. Also, Opera fixed all the annoying problems that made me switch to Chrome in the first place (Facebook issues, css problems with a forum I was visiting a lot...). I never had any major crash but yeah I remember Flash had some issues.

If you want a simple-to-use Internet ot netbook OS you use something like Easypeasy or Ubuntu, or 7. Because they're operating systems, and you can use them for whatever you need, it doesn't require all of the damn oversimplification do understand how to use them.

What pisses me off about Google is that they want to take the world of computers and throw away nearly everything you could potentially do with them........Chrome OS is a perfect example of this. If you're going to make an operating system, targeting the noobs will get you nowhere.

P.S. Justin, yes i agree that an external client is better, but the IRC is still fucking epic.

[quote name='chrisman01' post='2627802' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:43 PM'][yt]0QRO3gKj3qw[/yt]

This video is full of so much BS, just to draw in computer n00bs. It also shows how lazy people are becoming.[/quote]
BS? Are you kidding? What did they say that wasn't true?

[quote name='chrisman01' post='2627802' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:43 PM']NONE of the "problems" in the vid are problems, they can all be dealt with if you know what you're doing. And Chrome is NOT faster than FF or IE, it depends on your connection speeds. And the inability to save things to your drive, only to the internet? IT'S HOW GOOGLE WATCHES YOU FOR PIRACY OR ANYTHING ELSE ILLEGAL![/quote]
Are you sure Chrome is not faster than FF or IE? Because different programs can do the same thing at different speeds depending on how efficient they are.

[quote name='chrisman01' post='2627802' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:43 PM']"your computer slows down and gets 'rusty' "? Not if you defrag, run disk cleanup, and run your antivirus on a regular basis. Also, BIOS is NOT part of the operating system. It's part of the computer itself, to tell the computer how to start up! /facepalm[/quote]
Most people don't. Also the BIOS was not included in the bracket that encompassed the OS. Be a little more observant.

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[quote name='chrisman01' post='2627802' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:43 PM']Annoying update notifications? Then UPDATE, make your computer better, and get rid of the popup! Amazing![/quote]
If there's no reason to update, isn't that even better?

[quote name='chrisman01' post='2627802' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:43 PM']I LMAO'd at how he described the browser and the computer. You can totally tell this is targeting n00bs that don't know what they're doing [/quote]
You say this like the majority of people who use computers know how to use them as well as most of this community does.

[quote name='chrisman01' post='2627802' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:43 PM']EDIT: No offense at anyone here who knows what they're doing and are using it. But I highly suggest going back to Linux, Windows, Mac OS, or whatever you used before.[/quote]
I hope you're aware that Chrome OS is a Linux distro.

I gave Google Chrome a try a few days ago. I was extremely disappointed. I had Shockwave crashes, websites load incorrectly, and text boxes load incorrectly. Also, for those of you who say that Google Chrome has extensions now so it's great, I recommend you do a little more reading. They are very limited to what they can do, unlike Firefox add-ons. For example, there's no such thing as an Adblock extension for Chrome that works correctly. The browser still wastes bandwidth loading the ads; the extensions just hide them from you. It might just be me, but I felt like I was being tricked.

Also, what was with there being no search bar on the right? Did Google really expect me to do keyword searches for my own search engines?

[quote name='chrisman01' post='2627741' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:11 PM']Even if Chrome did work flawlessly, it doesn't change the fact that it was missing some of the fonts I use while building my webs.com site/blog/whatever you want to call webs.[/quote]You're trying to apply (not embed) custom fonts like that in a Webs site?

Applying custom fonts has historically been a no-no since the viewer needs to have the font installed for it to be visible, otherwise it'll just default to... the default font of whichever family you chose. CSS3 adds support for @font-face, which allows you to embed the font files themselves (truetype or opentype only) so visitors without the font installed can see it.
http://www.css3.info/preview/web-fonts-with-font-face/
I'd like to point out that it works fine in Chrome, of course.
It doesn't work in firefox 3.6, but that may be something to do with my installation.

[quote name='BortzANATOR' post='2626429' date='Feb 27 2010, 11:36 PM']Well i dont use chrome. I dont like the idea of Google keeping tabs on me. Specifically...[/quote]Speculation. The source is available and there's multiple handfuls of ways to monitor connections, nobody has ever shown that chrome reports any personal info or anything more than other browsers like firefox report. If you say it does it, please show some proof. It'd be quite easy to get proof (like I said, there's many ways to monitor connections), and while there's many people saying it happens, there's zero proof, and I was tired of that rumor a year ago.

[quote name='chrisman01' post='2627802' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:43 PM']And Chrome is NOT faster than FF or IE, it depends on your connection speeds.[/quote]So javascript interpretation+execution, page rendering, style application, and other things like that which directly affect how fast a page appears on your screen after that data has been loaded don't matter?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10452519-264.html
Look at that, chrome beats firefox, and only loses to 1 browser (and that's slightly) in one test.

And what about startup time? Firefox is well known to take a while to cold start, and a firefox warm start is beaten by a chrome cold start on my 4-year old PC. If you'd like I can go find some benchmarks for it, if you don't want to take my word for it.

Also, about people that don't know what they're doing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ

They're everwhere.

[quote name='Advice Dog' post='2627829' date='Feb 28 2010, 01:55 PM']If you're going to make an operating system, targeting the noobs will get you nowhere.[/quote]Are you saying that streamlining one main process/feature by removing others in order to appeal to computer-illiterate people or people who don't use those features isn't a workable strategy?

Well, how do you explain that the W3C (the group that covers CSS and web standards such as HTML) reports that chrome beats out safari and opera in usage?
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
This site also confirms it.

Like the youtube link shows, there's a LOT of people out there that don't know everything, and while computers get more complicated and the people that use them all the time (like us) learn more, people that don't use them all the time don't learn more, so the average person grows further and further away from understanding a computer's inner workings.

Netbooks are getting pretty damn popular these days...

[quote name='Lacius' post='2627932' date='Feb 28 2010, 02:52 PM']I had Shockwave crashes[/quote]Hasn't happened to me so it can't be chrome. Run the uninstaller (yeah, adobe needs you to run a program they provide to uninstall flash/shockwave, isn't that lovely) and install the latest version and see if that fixes it.




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[quote name='Rydian' post='2627955' date='Feb 28 2010, 03:02 PM']Hi, I'm Rydian, and technology gives me boners. [/quote]
And technology isn't the only thing.

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[quote name='Rydian' post='2627955' date='Feb 28 2010, 02:02 PM'][quote name='Lacius' post='2627932' date='Feb 28 2010, 02:52 PM']I had Shockwave crashes[/quote]Hasn't happened to me so it can't be chrome. Run the uninstaller (yeah, adobe needs you to run a program they provide to uninstall flash/shockwave, isn't that lovely) and install the latest version and see if that fixes it.[/quote]
I should have been more clear; the Shockwave crashes were limited to only one or two sites and may not have been entirely Chrome's fault. However, these crashes never occurred with Firefox.

Edit: Also, I forgot to mention that I ran the uninstaller and reinstalled the latest version just to eliminate variables. The crashes still occurred.

[quote name='Lacius' post='2627967' date='Feb 28 2010, 03:09 PM'][quote name='Rydian' post='2627955' date='Feb 28 2010, 02:02 PM'][quote name='Lacius' post='2627932' date='Feb 28 2010, 02:52 PM']I had Shockwave crashes[/quote]Hasn't happened to me so it can't be chrome. Run the uninstaller (yeah, adobe needs you to run a program they provide to uninstall flash/shockwave, isn't that lovely) and install the latest version and see if that fixes it.[/quote]
I should have been more clear; the Shockwave crashes were limited to only one or two sites and may not have been entirely Chrome's fault. However, these crashes never occurred with Firefox.

Edit: Also, I forgot to mention that I ran the uninstaller and reinstalled the latest version just to eliminate variables. The crashes still occurred.
[/quote]Have you tries the testing version (dev channel) to see if it happens? What are those sites, could other people reproduce it?


[quote name='BeatriceTheGolden' post='2627964' date='Feb 28 2010, 03:06 PM'][quote name='Rydian' post='2627955' date='Feb 28 2010, 03:02 PM']Hi, I'm Rydian, and technology gives me boners. [/quote]
And technology isn't the only thing.

DOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO.
[/quote]I likes me them ladyfurs. Especially white tigresses and snow leopards. <3