Anyone tried the new browser from Google ??

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...4-20142,00.html

 

im a Firefox man, will give it a go tho.

 

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?

 

The video thing is probably because you don't have the plugins installed. You would have had to install them in IE too. Perhaps they are not available yet.

 

If this becomes successful Mr. Gates is going to be upset!

 

Mr Gates has retired.

It's Steve Ballmer the talking moose who will get excited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y89wBYVHkY4

 

I think he sniffed too much white cpu adhesive!

 

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