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carpmart - 12/11/09 at 02:28 PM

Anyone else using this browser?

In the short time I have been using it, I have to say I'm quite impressed!

whitestu - 12/11/09 at 02:31 PM

I gave up with it [about a year ago] and went back to ie - it was very unstable.

Maybe it has improved since then.

[Edited on 12/11/09 by whitestu]

ken555 - 12/11/09 at 02:34 PM

yeah running it here.

Also running the Google Chrome OS Beta.

carpmart - 12/11/09 at 02:41 PM

quote:
Originally posted by whitestu
I gave up with it [about a year ago] and went back to ie - it was very unstable.

Maybe it has improved since then.

[Edited on 12/11/09 by whitestu]


Funny as I've decided to give it a go as Firefox is so flakey for me!

I tried IE today and had forgotten how bad it is and why I hate it!

whitestu - 12/11/09 at 02:47 PM

quote:

Funny as I've decided to give it a go as Firefox is so flakey for me!


I agree about Firefox. IE is flakey as well, but overall for me it seemed to work best.

BenB - 12/11/09 at 02:49 PM

I'm still a FF fan due to the speed. IE is like browsing on dial-up (okay not quite that bad but it's still v slow!)

carpmart - 12/11/09 at 03:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by BenB
I'm still a FF fan due to the speed. IE is like browsing on dial-up (okay not quite that bad but it's still v slow!)


You need to try Google Chrome as its sooo much faster that FF!

MK9R - 12/11/09 at 03:04 PM

chrome is the daddy. I find the odd site doesn't work properly with it, but very few. I went from IE to firefox and now to chrome and i can't stand either of the others now. Googles global takeover is speeding up!

matt_gsxr - 12/11/09 at 03:12 PM

Chrome seems good to me, been using it for around a year.

Occasionally plugins don't work properly (I seem to have a problem with pdf's, but adobe seem to be forever sending updates!).

Matt

blakep82 - 12/11/09 at 03:12 PM

never had any problems with IE myself. tried firefox and it made everything look like poo.

bmseven - 12/11/09 at 03:24 PM

Tried chrome for quite a while and it is faster than IE but Firefox wins everytime because of the fantastic add on's available

Humbug - 12/11/09 at 05:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by bmseven
Tried chrome for quite a while and it is faster than IE but Firefox wins everytime because of the fantastic add on's available


Same here. I just tried it and it's quick, but lacks FF's addons and you don't seem to be able to tweak the settings like you can in FF

britishtrident - 12/11/09 at 06:22 PM

Chrome is fine --- nothing new really underneath the hood it is just one of Linux browsers rebranded.

MikeRJ - 12/11/09 at 06:54 PM

Never had any problems with Firefox on the numerous PCs and laptops I use, so sticking with it for now. Must be a good reason why they have ~24% of the market (and rising).

iank - 12/11/09 at 07:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Chrome is fine --- nothing new really underneath the hood it is just one of Linux browsers rebranded.


Think you might be thinking of the Mac browser which is based on the Konqueror engine.
Chrome is based on Chromium which is all google's own work and doesn't form the basis for any of the linux browsers afaik.

There is a development version of Chrome for linux, which I'm using to post this, but there are good and bad releases (flash works on and off for example). General browsing is fine for vanilla sites and it's much faster than firefox or ie.

Jubal - 12/11/09 at 08:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ken555

Also running the Google Chrome OS Beta.


Are you sure?

matt_claydon - 12/11/09 at 10:30 PM

quote:

Google Chrome is a web browser released by Google which uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework


quote:

WebKit was originally derived by Apple Inc. from the Konqueror browser’s KHTML software library for use as the engine of Mac OS X’s Safari web browser

carpmart - 12/11/09 at 10:32 PM

That's why I love this site; there are loads of clever people on here!

mad4x4 - 13/11/09 at 07:04 AM

I got fed up with FF wanting to download updates every time I used it. and Taking 5 Mins to load up

Chrome is good but it sometimes takes ages to load a page. Like it missed the initial response. but apart from that I LIK'ee

britishtrident - 14/11/09 at 12:15 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mad4x4
I got fed up with FF wanting to download updates every time I used it. and Taking 5 Mins to load up

Chrome is good but it sometimes takes ages to load a page. Like it missed the initial response. but apart from that I LIK'ee



You can turn updates off

In Windows version
Tools > Options > Advanced : Update: When updates are found.

In Linux
Edit>Preferenceces>Advanced>Update

[Edited on 14/11/09 by britishtrident]

britishtrident - 14/11/09 at 12:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by iank
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Chrome is fine --- nothing new really underneath the hood it is just one of Linux browsers rebranded.


Think you might be thinking of the Mac browser which is based on the Konqueror engine.
Chrome is based on Chromium which is all google's own work and doesn't form the basis for any of the linux browsers afaik.

There is a development version of Chrome for linux, which I'm using to post this, but there are good and bad releases (flash works on and off for example). General browsing is fine for vanilla sites and it's much faster than firefox or ie.


A large chunk of what runs Chrome under the bonnet is Konqueror browser for the KDE desktop for Linux like MAC Safari and a few other Linux browsers it uses the KHTML/Webkit engine.

Webkit is an Apple fork from the KDE project KHTML taken in house by Apple but the two projects share code to such an extent the only difference are Mac specific features in the Apple version.