Comments on: Google Chrome: Meet the New Boss

By: graynotgrey

graynotgrey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I use Ubuntu and you can configure apt-get to get the most recent builds of Chromium, the open source version of Chrome, as well as Chrome. Chromium is updated almost daily and thus is a little ahead of Chrome. Flash is now enabled by default and working pretty well. It works on YouTube as you would suspect, but I could not play the opening cinematic video on the The Beatles Rockband web site – which btw is pretty, especially if you are a Beatles fan. But that was a few days ago, it may work now. Development is moving along at a steady clip. I switched to Chromium as my default browser, going back to Firefox when I need to print or use an extension. Chromium is faster and leaner. It appears to use fewer resources.

By: emperorcezar

emperorcezar — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am strongly considering using Chrome, but it needs adblock first. That\’s a major lacking of all the webkit browsers for Linux currently.

By: wweng_linux

wweng_linux — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I like the fact that you dont need to bring down the whole browser if just one page errs out.

Very nice feature!

By: sktg8r

sktg8r — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I switched to Chrome on my work supplied web machine and love it. As you say I have to switch back to firefox or exploder once in a while for specific sites but the speed and clean interface are great. I\’m looking forward to Chrome on Linux.

By: henkdaalder

henkdaalder — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Without adblock or something similar, Chrome will never be a browser of choice.
I can understand why google will want to leave this great feature out of its browser.
But they have to understand that there will be many users that want to suppress most adds.
I have not measured it recently, but my impression of earlier versions of Chrome, is that it is more memory hungry than Firefox.
Especially when many pages are open.

By: justinlawrence

justinlawrence — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I\'ve been using google-chrome in Kubuntu for the last few months and have been super impressed in all regards: speed, stability, rendering, memory usage.

I\'ve only reverted to Konqueror for Flash sites, of which Youtube being the only one I use regularly.

Yet, Konqueror would still be my browser if choice if it\'d render Gmail properly, but most if my browsing originates from within mail. I love Konqueror\'s integration into KDE eg gg:, ggi, doplhin integration, auto page load upon startup etc

I can\'t say that I\'ve even noticed, let alone missed the lack of ad blocking. Are there many sites that still exploit this?in general if a site does not respect a user, it will earn no loyalty and thus not be visited regularly, although that said, I guess I use many of the same sites often and not a bunch of different sites each day.

By: hectormacias

hectormacias — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Im keeping this browser updated with the dev builds (Chromium of course) but just as a back up browser, for sites Opera 10.10 (also from the desktop team) cant display well, which happens less and less often, just in case. About finding features that make me forget Opera, naaaaay!! I dont even bother.

By: mdozone01

mdozone01 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

chrome schrome—just go with opera or Lynx