Google Chrome

I'd just like to add that I barely understand a word of this thread but I am very impressed. Keep up the good work chaps...

I'd just like to add that I barely understand a word of this thread but I am very impressed. Keep up the good work chaps...

its ok i speak geek.

basically this chrome thing gets you to girly pictures, this forum, and your email, faster then things that are not chrome.

Flash plugin crashes relentlessly in Youtube

its ok i speak geek.

basically this chrome thing gets you to girly pictures, this forum, and your email, faster then things that are not chrome.

I'm liking it already...

it's 6.4% on Rollapaluza...lods of beople trying, some not liking it?

Have started using Chrome in incognito mode at work to check my emails and read the news and other stuff which does not count as work. Seems to work rather well.

oh! i'm using it now.

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...

think google have apologised and retracted this gumf. hurrah!

i like chrome, but it's really unstable. crashed my machine, hotmail live hates it. but it is nice and fast, and fresh feeling.

Interesting, that... After reading your post, I did a bit more homework and found some quotes from their chief legal counsel indicating that they reused the EULA from other projects. Forgive my sceptecism... I dont really see Google overlooking something as important, I mean they are quoting their in house legal team in their press release. This sort of legality would be a massive element of the release. Take your point on the open source bit though.

I've got my eye on Google Health too... pure speculation, but I'd suggest that the kind of data stored on that thing would be pretty valuable, even if its anonymous/statistical. Ulterior motive, I reckon.

Should qualify this by saying that I have no idea what Im talking about.

Im going to Birley.

Conspiracy theorist!

A nice rant about Chrome:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/08/dziuba_chrome/

'Kin Windows. I want a linux version NOW.

A nice rant about Chrome:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/08/dziuba_chrome/

I read the original article... it's kinda nuts.

The gist is that what was coined as the "operating system" on computers is what talks to the hardware and then allows applications to run.

The purpose of the "operating system" was to homogenise hardware so that one application could run on a variety of hardware. Your computer is not the same as mine, but the same application can run on both as we have the same "operating system" and that makes the application talk to the os, and the os takes care of talking to the hardware.

Some people strongly disagree with the idea that the "operating system" of the future could be a web browser, as they highlight that it doesn't talk to hardware it talks to an operating system, so it is just an application... but they totally miss the point that the applications that we are seeing emerge run inside a web browser. And, the homogenised platform in which applications are being developed for is no longer a operating system, the platform is now a web browser.

The full functionality of Google Docs, or Yahoo Maps... that stuff runs on computers of all operating systems and the common platform for making this happen is the browser.

In other words, Chrome by offering the full speed of the hardware to the applications has strengthened the platform for applications to run in. Chrome is abstracting the operating system out of the equation, application authors need only think of a browser to get the biggest audience possible, and no longer the operating system on a particular piece of hardware.

I don't think it will be too long before we start seeing thin clients become available that run a stripped down Linux invisibly in the background and that boot automatically into Chrome. Chrome will be, for all visible intents and purposes, the operating system.

The web browser is destined to be what people interact with, what developers work against, and the operating system of the future.

That does hit Microsoft, and it hits Apple. Chrome has shown that within a browser a scripted language can be compiled to run at the speed of native code, and that each tab within the browser can be given the same isolation and security as separate programs in an operating system... you get performance, and you get security and stability.

It is a big thing, and the naysayers who prematurely get pedantic and proclaim it isn't are going to look more than a little stupid in the future. By argument semantics that forget that the terms originally encapsulated ideas, and those ideas are now being re-implemented on a greater scale.

have been using it for the last week and prefer it to mozilla
running it on xp
thumbs up

Used it for a week then switched back to Firefox 3.0.3 as I find it much more to my liking.

firefox is being a bit shit at the moment...it crashes when i try to listen to stuff on the bbc website.

Uninstall adobe flashplayer. Restart your system then re-install (according to adobe & mozilla)

i get the same problem with bbc radio online
It's really annoying

Since beta 5 just appeared all up in my shizzle..

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/

I'm still on 4.1.249.XXX but I've recently discovered that you can sync your bookmarks using a Google account across different machines. That's pretty handy.

I've got a Dell mini 10v and there is a Chrome OS build for it Dell put together, quite tempted to try it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0

Why am I unable to copy and paste pictures in Chrome?

How do you normally do it?

ctrl c and ctrl v
But it won't work for me, there must be some easy geek answer for it though.

I can select an image by highlighting it then copy and paste like that. I'm on a mac though?