OT: Anyone out there using the google browser? Any benefits?

Michael Hatsis · Post by **Michael Hatsis** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:44 am

holla!

zealtha1 · Post by **zealtha1** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:11 am

quicker load times then most other browsers "except firefox beta", the omnibar which is the address bar and search bar combine is wonderful, and i submitted 2 different issues i was having and they quickly came out with updates, so good customer service as well

crumhorn · Post by **crumhorn** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:42 am

Why do companies insist on keep bringing out new browsers when they could spend their time doing something useful like creating something new that isn't available in several different flavours already.

It's bad enough having to test web sites on all the browsers that currently exist on Windows, Mac and various mobile platforms without Google joining in as well. Not to mention the latest POS browser on the iPhone. (no file upload control FFS!!)

All the world needs is one reliable, none proprietary, portable, (reasonably) standards compliant browser (e.g. FireFox).

Please don't encourage take up of Google's latest piece in their plan for world domination.

/Rant

Sorry about the rant, but testing all these combinations is doing my head in at the moment

ashtonron · Post by **ashtonron** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:47 am

each tab runs as its own process which means if a website causes the process to crash you can still go back to your other tab without losing data...

havent used it myself as I am on Mac

rikhyray · Post by **rikhyray** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:13 pm

I use Chroma for everything except this forum (does not supprort trollkiller) it is clean and works

e.maynard · Post by **e.maynard** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:25 pm

Camino on the Mac is still the quickest. Firefox on the PC seems tops.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:51 pm

crumhorn wrote:Why do companies insist on keep bringing out new browsers when they could spend their time doing something useful like creating something new that isn't available in several different flavours already.

It's bad enough having to test web sites on all the browsers that currently exist on Windows, Mac and various mobile platforms without Google joining in as well. Not to mention the latest POS browser on the iPhone. (no file upload control FFS!!)

All the world needs is one reliable, none proprietary, portable, (reasonably) standards compliant browser (e.g. FireFox).

Please don't encourage take up of Google's latest piece in their plan for world domination.

/Rant

Sorry about the rant, but testing all these combinations is doing my head in at the moment

i think chrome is based on Webkit or something like that..