On the new browser...

[hazliya]

So, Google Chrome.

Like it? Love it? Hate it?

I'm looking into it and am wondering how others have fared.

-H

Comments

[dncingmalkavian.livejournal.com]

I truthfully think it's really nifty. It imported all my link folders with their bookmarks from Mozilla, and I like it's no-fuss minimalism though it is still visually appealing. It's pretty quick, and seems quite stable and secure.

I don't know if I LOVE it, but I definitely like it.

[nightskyre.livejournal.com]

It's very fast. Unfortunately, it has no plugin support at this time, so if you use any plugins, you're SoL. Along with that, I've noticed it doesn't like a lot of the javascript I usually make use of in some browsers (of note, autocomplete)

It's nice, but I think it needs to mature a little. Also, LJ looks bad in it.

[hazliya.livejournal.com]

So things like my del.icio.us won't work or import?
Is there anything else to recommend it other than being fast?

[nightskyre.livejournal.com]

Well, it seems to be a fairly strict browser (like Firefox) so it's good for checking your code if you're a web programmer. I really like the tab dropping (you can pull a tab out of the Chrome window and it makes its own tab) and if a website crashes, it only crashes that tab, not the whole window.

Like I said, it has a huge upside, it just needs to grow into it.

[dncingmalkavian.livejournal.com]

I actually thought LJ looked better in Chrome, being that it's a bit more spread out and the colors seem to show up better.

It is most definitely good for checking code, though I'll agree with the autocomplete needing a bit of work.

[dncingmalkavian.livejournal.com]

Oh, one more thing that bites - it doesn't like to display background images. Not sure how to iron that one out.

[phoenix1701.livejournal.com]

Does too support plugins. :) Type "about:plugins" in the omnibar if you don't believe me. I think you might have meant "extensions", like AdBlock and Bugzilla.

[laurion]

Dunno. Doesn't run* on my linux box or my Mac laptop. Waiting for the good bits to end up in Firefox (won't be long, I can tell you).

* - Those wacky Crossover folks have hacked up a way to run it on these platforms, but it isn't native, it's the Windows binary with on the fly transcoding. Doesn't count.

[chainer36.livejournal.com]

I like it. I'm best agreeing with dncingmalkavian. Imported all my bookmarks and saved passwords without a hitch. The only nitpick is the lack of extensions, but I'll see what's what in a moment. I still keep Firefox around, but that's only for FTP (I'd like to do FTP in Chrome!)