Google Chrome

[Board Game Geek]

Is this now "safe" to use what with the recent furore about Google owning your first born and DNA ?

[NickFitz]

Is this now "safe" to use what with the recent furore about Google owning your first born and DNA ?

That was just a storm in a teacup, resulting from the combination of a cock-up at Google and some loser - sorry, blogger - jumping up and down waving his arms around shouting "Noooooo! They be stealing my bucket!", presumably so he can tell his friends at school that he got on Slashdot

[Fred Bloggs]

Hmmm, been using Chrome a day or so now. It's OK. Not exactly an intuitive user interface I find. It took me a few minutes to get a "home" button on the button bar. I couldn't see within ~3 minutes of looking last night how to bookmark a page, so I gave up. Those two issues should be obvious and staring you in the face. (Caveat- it was very late last night and I was tired but what the heck.)

[Diver]

Hmmm, been using Chrome a day or so now. It's OK. Not exactly an intuitive user interface I find. It took me a few minutes to get a "home" button on the button bar. I couldn't see within ~3 minutes of looking last night how to bookmark a page, so I gave up. Those two issues should be obvious and staring you in the face. (Caveat- it was very late last night and I was tired but what the heck.)

Tried it on the Laptop, Will try it again when they sort out that useless popup blocker, til then I'll stick with Firefox

[Bluebird]

can't get it to install with xp, tried in safe mode as well - no good.
tried to run both after download to local or from site - still no joy.

looked up that there can be a problem with some file in xp which needs to be removed first ?

anybody else had to do this?

Cheers

[voodooflux]

anybody else had to do this?

Nope, went on pretty smoothly for me

[vhadiant]

Tried it last night. First impression is good. It's fast and very lean. I think it has a lot of potential. They need to clean it up and make Google toolbar working on it

[realityhack]

Are you going to be at Google Developer Day, RH? I would imagine there'll be a fair amount of focus on Chrome at that

I hope to be - but haven't heard back from them. May have registered too late.

[realityhack]

LOL. When will people ever learn? Keep telling yourself "It's not just a badge, my Mac is better.It's not just a badge, my Mac is better."

I have a range of different machines and OSes for a number of reasons: Portability, power and testing are a few.

As a creative professional, It would be remiss of me not to own a mac, and be familiar with the environment and the tools. Equally, some applications are PC-only.

I aim to resolve this using a VM. I'll be buying a mac for that VM setup because
a: It's easier and simpler. Computers are a tool I use to do my job, and I want as few obstacles in my path as possible.
b: It's faster. (Not in all things, but in my experience and with the apps I use, it is)
c: The build quality is good, the screens are high quality and colour profile switching is near-instant.
d: Running a VM is a piece of cake - shared clipboards, drag and drop and concurrent running is invaluable to me, and it's surprisingly quick, too.
e: The system is simply more stable. I've owned Win PCs and Macs side-by-side for A Long Time. I'm not saying I've never seen a mac die on me, but it outperforms similar Windows machines - by far - and I push these machines to the very limit of processing power/graphics rendering. Spend a while rendering 3D graphics or HD video and you'll see what I mean.

I'm not precious about the 'Mac culture', I don't own any polo necks (!), or wear thick-rimmed glasses, or hang out in wine bars. I've just used comparable machines side by side and know what works best for me. I do prefer Window's Office environment, and the buisness software. I don't play games so the fact that the games market is geared for PCs doesn't concern me...

But I am passionate about usability, and simplicity, and elegant (and robust) product design... and am happy to pay for it, especially as they outlast PCs in the long run.

[VectraMan]

They need to clean it up and make Google toolbar working on it

Noooo! The lack of crap is exactly what's good about it.