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09-01-2008, 04:46 PM
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Anyone tried the new browser from Google ??
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...4-20142,00.html
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09-02-2008, 03:36 PM
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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.
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.
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong?? Has anyone else tried Chrome yet?
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.
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.
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong?? Has anyone else tried Chrome yet?
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