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Weekend open forum: Google Chrome, are you using it on a regular basis?
But that’s only the beginning of the story. Even more surprising was that Google was able to launch a very mature browsing tool by cutting corners where it could, like adopting the open-source WebKit browser engine, also used by Safari. This meant Google could spend more time refining other areas of the browser, like its highly touted JavaScript VM, an evolutionary user interface, and multi-threaded nature, so that a single tab shouldn’t crash the whole browser.
Chrome was well received by the online community and also got plenty of free publicity from traditional media on the day of its launch, which translated in a very rapid adoption at first instance. As we anticipated however, many of those Chrome installations were based on quick try-outs, where eventually a good share of users would switch back to their usual browser of choice for most tasks. But how about you? Did you ever try Chrome? Are you using it as your primary browser, or is it just collecting dust in your hard drive nowadays? What do you use the most for your Internet browsing needs and why?
Discuss.
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[b]Originally posted by KingDingDong:[/b][quote]nope, not after the EULA crap[/quote]The EULA 'crap' Was appologised for and fixed. Looks like it was a mistake.Other than that, Did Try Chrome, but im with what everyone else says, It looks too Basic, doesnt really look like a browser. Firefox Add-ons are just way ahead of the game, my Firefox is customised to suit the dark theme of my Windows Vista.And frankly, Ive NEVER had any trouble with Firefox. security wise its great, hardly uses any resources (in perspective with my Machine), fast, and Looks great, why WOULD I switch?
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I think that chrome is a bunch of crap. There is no way to change the skin, edit bookmarks, or anything else. It may run fast but that doesnt determine the best browser.
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Google is doing what it has done for many years now. Simplicity. 10 years ago no one had heard of google, they certainly were in the mix with the other search engines, yahoo, excite, alta vista, ask jeeves etc... but I always used to use google, because it was simple.As for chrome, forget your bells and whistle addons. This is a nice, simple and more importantly for me, fast browser with a better look about it. One issue accessing facebook (I can't) other than that so far so good...and it's still in its beta stage.
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For those having problems scrolling up, I released a program to quickly and automatically fix the "cannot scroll up using certain touch pads" issue for Google Chrome (until Chrome is fixed officially).Just run chrome_patch.exe. It will modify chrome.dll to fix the issue.You can download/read about it at[url]http://digg.com/software/Google_Chrome_68[/url]
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