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No faster then firefox
Everything about it is underwhelming .
Everything about it is underwhelming .
grimlock
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It's way faster than Firefox on my machine.No faster then firefox
Everything about it is underwhelming .
Early days yet, but the process per tab design is great.
Also like the 'new tab' page that gives you a 3x3 display of the last 9 sites you visited. A real timesaver.
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At the moment, it is a poor man's Firefox, and is struggling to do a number of work related applications and change the font for some others (Times New Roman should be relegated to the 80's/90's scrapheap forever!).
It seems quick, but it's pretty hard to split Firefox, Opera and Safari (on Macs). This is at least as good as those.
The set up is obviously designed to maximise space, but it really only shades Opera and Firefox but a millimetre or two and it lacks a prominent statement. The hiding of any bottom bar also helps the page maximisation, but I think they are overestimating just how much we need to see on a page.
The search / address bar is very good and clever. Hopefully they aren't stoopid enough to call it anything like an "Awesome Bar".
Dunno if you can change the most visited page. Not overly private, and seems like a poor man's Opera Speed Dial.
They are obviously heavyweights, but, beta version aside, as yet it is hard to see why they are bothering. They are talking about revolutionising things, so there must be some reason.
It seems quick, but it's pretty hard to split Firefox, Opera and Safari (on Macs). This is at least as good as those.
The set up is obviously designed to maximise space, but it really only shades Opera and Firefox but a millimetre or two and it lacks a prominent statement. The hiding of any bottom bar also helps the page maximisation, but I think they are overestimating just how much we need to see on a page.
The search / address bar is very good and clever. Hopefully they aren't stoopid enough to call it anything like an "Awesome Bar".
Dunno if you can change the most visited page. Not overly private, and seems like a poor man's Opera Speed Dial.
They are obviously heavyweights, but, beta version aside, as yet it is hard to see why they are bothering. They are talking about revolutionising things, so there must be some reason.
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Being from google it's going to be very plain but very useful.
Just installed it, will give it a go and see how good it is.
Just installed it, will give it a go and see how good it is.
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I tried it and it may be faster but it isn't noticeable unless you are timing it or something. Firefox has way too many good add-ons for me to switch, I can't even stand going on this site without AdBlock.
meh.
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If you read the comic, yes a comic, that serves as the release document, you can see they are trying to set up the browser as an application platform that has already begun with Gmail and Google Docs. They've have optimised their JavaScript engine, to be able to handle such complex apps, which they feel is being hindered by the current browsers.
ManWithNoName
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I used Chrome for a while, but the amount of ads on the internet scared me. I had to run back to my Ad-Block safe world.Same story for me, never realised BigFooty had so many ads
Woah! That inspect element feature is ****ing gold.
Also can't believe people don't think it is not faster than Firefox. Much faster and as gridlock said it's main feature is the integration between browser and applications. Try loading a pdf file from it, you should notice the difference then.
Also can't believe people don't think it is not faster than Firefox. Much faster and as gridlock said it's main feature is the integration between browser and applications. Try loading a pdf file from it, you should notice the difference then.
Why anybody would use Ad-Block or any browser slowing blocking option puzzles me, when there is a much faster option!
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A hosts file leaves "page cannot be displayed" errors where the ad would have been. Messy and annoying, add-ons like AdBlock are much cleaner. I haven't noticed it slow down the browser either.
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Big thumbs up from me. Google to take over everything FTW.
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Summed up to perfection
very easily led when something says new and improved borgsta, being a google product they will probably do double the ads instead of bloking them
very easily led when something says new and improved borgsta, being a google product they will probably do double the ads instead of bloking them
Actually they block literally every pop up, which can be rather annoying as it doesn't allow for site / page customisation.
Very good spell checker on the thing.
Annoying how it doesn't have it's own network options, it actually uses Internet Explorer's one.
It's very good for a first release beta, I'm certainly not going to use it as my main browser as it misses out on too many small things for it to take over Opera, but the way it handles program integration and javascript is fantastic. Just load www.afl.com.au to see the difference. Ticketek is another good site to try it out on. Funnily enough I found google mail to work better with Firefox.
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When you goto a new tab... via the little + button next to you other tabs:
- Recent Bookmarks are displayed on the right hand side.
- also the blue bar across the top holds bookmarks
- and their is a "Other Bookmarks" folder/button to the right of that blue bar.
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For a beta version, this browser is excellent IMO.
In my experience, users prefer simplicity, so I think the look is fantastic and people will be very comfortable with using it. Pages load very quickly on my machine, faster than IE and Firefox and the individual tab memory usage is also a great idea to reduce crashes. Downloading files is also much easier with a couple of less steps involved.
Sure they are missing a few bits and pieces, but it is their first beta and I'm sure they are working on improving it as we speak.
Big thumbs up from me.
In my experience, users prefer simplicity, so I think the look is fantastic and people will be very comfortable with using it. Pages load very quickly on my machine, faster than IE and Firefox and the individual tab memory usage is also a great idea to reduce crashes. Downloading files is also much easier with a couple of less steps involved.
Sure they are missing a few bits and pieces, but it is their first beta and I'm sure they are working on improving it as we speak.
Big thumbs up from me.
