Although I found out about Google Chrome only on 2nd of September many events have occured. In about an hour after the discovery the screenshots got leaked and I posted an article introducing the Google Chrome - a revolutionery web browser. In twelve hours the first beta was released.
First of all - it’s beta, it has to be glitchy. What disturbs me is that I have seen a very few Google’s technologies turning from beta into final release. Most of them are still beta, although developed very well.
The main view of the browser:
Browser's main view
It automatically fills the Quick Access window with the most visited sites, just as Opera does.
Also, you can move tab anywhere you want - even outside the window and make it separate.
Moving the history tab
As I’ve already mentioned in the previous post about Google Chrome, the processes table contains process for each tab of Google Chrome, which means you can kill it without crashing the application. Google Chrome has it’s own processes viewer from which you can kill any tab that bothers you.
Process view
Although nothing stopped me from killing a random process. What I got was…
A view produced by Chrome after killing a random process
Which is really brilliant and clever. Something is wrong, that’s for sure. I hope they will provide a tab name for each process in future releases.
What I liked a lot was a View source function. The highlighting is brilliant and very efficient.
View source function
What I like about the Google applications is that everything is shown into separate window / tab.
Separate tab for downloads and history is a very good decision. So, opening the downloads window shows up with the next screen.
Download window caption
Also some minor features, like highlighting the domain name to prevent phishing and search the site right in the address bar.
Highlighting the domain name
Search this site
The most annoying glitch is that my scroll-up function doesn’t work in the browser. Plus there are some rendering issues while switching between the tabs, crashes after opening e-mails in Gmail.
Chrome is completely open-source project and uses WebKit engine for rendering web pages. And what I have noticed is that rendering is much more faster than in any browser I have tried.
Although it has some bugs and glitches - but overall it’s great for the very first beta version. I think that giants as Mozilla and Opera should be awared - because design is very simple, clever and simply beautiful and outstanding. Chrome has “Incognito” tab option which doesn’t store ANY information on your computer while you’re browsing - not introduced feature before.
Of course the address bar with default search options does not replace the Awesome bar in firefox and Bookmarks organizing feature is far from perfectness - it doesn’t have tags.
Who might have thought that after the boom of Firefox 3 the next one will happen that fast.
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Very eagerly tried it and…it messed up my system… guess i will wait for some more time…
What do you mean messed up the system?
Today I discovered that my old version of Google Desktop (I hate the black gimmick look) that I carefully made read-only and deleted the google updater to prevent any update, was updated.
Uninstalled Google desktop and installed the old one. It crashed my Firefox 3. Never happened before.
Fed up I looked around for Chrome. it was not in my %program files% I’ve found it in c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\application data\google
Since when are applications installed over there?
No more google applications for me, I revert back to an older state.
The application itself is in program files. But your personal data is always application data folder (for xp).
Daniel is correct, the application itself is installed in the user’s profile. Check the target of your Chrome shortcuts.
is anyone else experiencing problems with touchpad’s scroll-up function on laptops with Chrome?
Little update. I uninstalled chrome. Be it not the correct way (just deleted the folder) and after that I had to rollback because Explorer refused to start after a reboot. Funny thing is that Chrome doesn’t make a rollback entry point. Only entry point I had was the Java beta installer needed for chrome.
I don’t know what went wrong but if an older version of Google Desktop together with Chrome crashes my FF3 (IE 7 was fine) and after deleting Chrome it crashes my explorer I keep clear of it until it comes out of beta. Knowing Google that could take at least half a dozen years.
Admin, I think it’s the scrolling of Chrome in general. With me it constantly did one page instead of the three lines my scroll normally takes. I blamed my Katmouse for it. But I heard more stories about scrolling not working as designed. Or working as designed but not intended by normal users.
there are so many advantages and features with Chrome, such as it’s speed, for example; now if only they would take care it’s quirky cookie management…
For anyone who wishes to fix the “cannot scroll up with certain mouse pads” issue quickly, I have released a patcher. You can download it here:
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pjt2v07/chrome/
Just run chrome_patch.exe. It will patch chrome.dll to fix the issue.
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