Publisher's Description
From Google:
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop.
What's new in this version: Chrome 18 contains some really great improvements including GPU accelerating 2D Canvas, and enabling 3D content for older GPUs.
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"Not there yet"
Version: Google Chrome beta 14.0.835.159
Pros
Fast rendering of pages
Built-in pdf viewerCons
Does not remember passwords well
Does not talk to the keychain to retrieve proxy server password. This is a long-standing bug
Newest release does not remember to open home page when a new window is open
Very limited set of preferencesSummary
Fast browser with a lot to learn from Firefox or even iCab in terms of ease of use and autofill. Might be better on slow/older computers. Still no match for other mainstream browsers. Long-standing bugs absent in other browsers are not removed, although many forums contain pertinent info.
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"Chrome render pages *almost* as fast as Google iterates"
Version: Google Chrome beta 12.0.742.100
Pros
Fast boot; fast rendering; maintains speed & stability even with 50+ active pages in individual tabs. Eventually crashes (catastrophically), but long after competing browsers have quit in disgrace, plus Chrome always recovers gracefully.
Cons
Google closely monitors our crash reports plus other metrics gathered behind the scenes, so problems (ie: surprise bugs) can suddenly appear out of thin air and then vanish (ie: code fixes), just as quickly. This cycle may disturb the faint of heart.
Summary
Top marks. The best browser for Macs on Snow Leopard or Lion (previews) -- has been for many months. The rendering alone leaves Safari, Explorer, and Opera in the dust. Like many Macheads, I love Firefox for the flexibility of their huge add-ons catalog but even FF4 can't match Chrome for speed, stability, or pace of improvement. And, since Chrome's add-ons are improving by the day (recent offerings include a Greasemonkey clone), I suspect it won't be long before Firefox loses that edge, as well. For now, Chrome4Mac is the uncrowned king. Try it -- you'll like it.
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"Seems to work well with no problems."
Version: Google Chrome beta 12.0.742.60
Pros
Works like others.
Cons
I wish there were a separate entry point for search engines. I also could do without having to tell the software that downloading is ok after I have asked for a download! Also a bit slow in starting.
Summary
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"It's so fast your head will spin!"
Version: Google Chrome beta 11.0.696.34
Pros
So much faster than Safari or Firefox.
A very clean look with lots of themes/gadgets/extensions to add
The Beta versions is stable and better than the current standard release.Cons
Noe so far.
Summary
I moved to this browser because I was having all sorts of problems with Safari when opening lots of tabs. My only solution there was to disable javascript, open all the tables, re-enable javascript, and then re-load the pages that needed it. Very time consuming. I've had no such problems with Chrome Beta.
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"Waaay too many problems as yet !!!!!"
Version: Google Chrome beta 9.0.597.84
Pros
Looks like a nice set up once the bugs are out of it.
Cons
This browser will take complete control of your computer!! You cannot even delete it from applications--it keeps coming back !!! If using Firefox or safari--up pops Opera !!!!
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"Breaks HTML5 Standards. So Microsoft..."
Version: Google Chrome beta 9.0.597.83
Pros
It's a free alternative Web browser
Cons
It doesn't follow the HTML5 standard; Google version-jacking
Summary
What can you say when a company gives away a web browser that breaks Web standards? I say: No thanks. Specifically, Google decided all on their own to DUMP the FREE, no royalty fees, H.264 video standard from Chrome in favor of an incomplete, lame alternative they like better for reasons no one outside of Google can comprehend. This is yet-another Microsoft-style-move. Here they are version-jacking Chrome into the stratosphere, and now they're preventing users from being able to render and use HTML5 standard web pages. No thank you Google! Not interested! Time for a new CEO! Oh yeah, you DO have a new CEO! I hope he stops this stoooopidness.
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"Fast safe browser"
Version: Google Chrome beta 9.0.597.45
Pros
Speed + security
Cons
Some websites do not work with this browser
Summary
Omnipotent browser which delivers the goods with optimum speed.
Sometimes adobe flash files are not adequately rendered. -
"Weak - now you see it - now you don't."
Version: Google Chrome beta 9.0.597.45
Pros
It isn't Explorer
Cons
Terrible font support and horrible video support
Summary
It has been deleted from the hard drive
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"Just crashed on me what else"
Version: Google Chrome beta 7.0.517.24
Pros
Nothing except Apple's webkit rendering it
Cons
Chrome=Crashes
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"Google's web browser with a unified address an..."
Version: Google Chrome beta 5.0.375.55
Summary
...sear
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"Google's web browser with a unified address and search bar" bleh
It's quite fast and does get better with every release. The reason I don't use it as my main browser?
I really don't like not having a dedicated search box. I usually know what I want to do, so if I input something in the address bar, I want my browser to try to access what I type, verbatim, instead of throwing up all sorts of nonsense. (For example, if one types "apple" in the address bar, pressing return should direct you to www.apple.com. Instead, Chrome intercepts the input and spits out about everything except where I want to go. Press return, you end up googling for apple. A dedicated search bar + separate address field to produce the desired result much faster, and even more importantly, much more reliably. I don't need Google or anyone interpreting my input, just do what I ask already ;)
Google Chrome is pretty good, but I sure hope this unified search/address stuff doesn't catch on.
Back to Camino for me.
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