Google Chrome

Stunned to see a browser launched two days ago already accounts for 8% of all traffic on this site.

So who is using it? 'Fess up.

I'm waiting for 1.0 as I've only just gone to firefox 3.
reviews are good - nice and fast apparently...
All your beta are belong to us!

wow that is a very high statistic. I am unable to use it as I run linux and mac.
Not sure I trust google either, to me they are the new Microsoft.

new fire fox is alot smoother...

might give chorme ago though... seems pretty similar to firefox TBF.

In firefox im too used to the shortcuts.

it is not available for the Apple Personal Computer yet...

Microsoft+Google ≠ Apple+Mozilla

I'm using it and as far as I can tell it has been a seamless transition from FF. All the shortcuts that I am used to still work. The only issue I have with it is that it seems to open pages too 'low down': so when I open a thread that has got a few new comments on the bottom of it, I have to scroll back up a bit to see them. That sucks.

I like the 'Tab Page' instead of a home page and I like the Incognito mode for, uh, sensitive browsing. Also, moving tabs around from window to window is cool, as is having unlimited concurrent downloads as default.

Not cool is that the Rabbit gear ratio application tells me that I have no Java VM running when I use Chrome.

It's not set as my default browser yet, I think I'll wait for v1.0 for that.

OR get this and keep firefox:
http://www.webmynd.com/html/

Just tried chrome.

WOW.

Remember how long it took that Astra ASX detailing thread to open when we were laughing at that other forum? Go try it in Chrome.

Unlimited connections make Chrome substantially faster than any other browser I've seen, and that's before the JavaScript compiler kicks in to make the page render and react faster.

I like it. I didn't at first, but once I opened my first tab and got the speed dials by default I loved it.

On my Macbook I find that Firefox makes my CPU usage go crazy - if i watch youtube or similar in FF the fan goes mad and the CPU usage shows 100+% for FF

If i use safari i have no problems?

Is that your home page or something VB? ;-)

That is quite an impressive comparison though. Fuck I wish I worked for Google. Unfortunately my 2:2, lack of PhD and geographic location make it a non-proposition at the moment.

I like it. I didn't at first, but once I opened my first tab and got the speed dials by default I loved it.

Speed dials?

There's an add-on for firefox called speed-dial I believe. That does what chrome does when you open a new tab. Only difference is that chrome does it by default. And you don't have to add anything manually. Chrome just knows.

... The only issue I have with it is that it seems to open pages too 'low down': so when I open a thread that has got a few new comments on the bottom of it, I have to scroll back up a bit to see them. That sucks....

This has started happening to me ever since I got back off me hols at the weekend...

I am not using chrome

Interesting. Anyone else?

Yea, just did it for me. You ruined my chrome.

Tried to download Chrome just to test it out but due to my bootleg windows and lack of SP II I'm incompatible.. oh well, FF is good enough for me

I quite like Chrome ... use it at home on Vista. Still waiting for Chromium in Linux to do more than say it passed the unit tests :)

maybe im retarded but cant find the d/l button, guess i need to sign up first?

it is not available for the Apple Personal Computer yet...

ahh ok

On my Macbook I find that Firefox makes my CPU usage go crazy - if i watch youtube or similar in FF the fan goes mad and the CPU usage shows 100+% for FF

If i use safari i have no problems?

i have exactly the same problem (on my powerbook g4) but never noticed till last week when i was perusing activity monitor.
the Firefox CPU usage stays around 10% but every now and again rockets to 50-70% for no apparent reason - even when firefox is hidden and im using something else..

however i've stopped using safari because it kept freezing on me.

Found this interesting thing on Digg the other day - extract from the EULA:

"1.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services."

So basically, Google owns everything...

Google retracted that.

They had a basic EULA for other services provided by Google, and when they built the Chrome installer they included their basic EULA without checking it.

The EULA on Chrome is null and void anyway, because Chrome is open source and you can compile it and use it without having to agree to a EULA.

But in any case, Google admitted it was dumb, and a mistake, and retracted it.

i found chrome to be really slow...so i went back to my good friend firefox.