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Killy_Vorkosigan on 15 December 2008

I use it all the time for its speed, despite some minor bug. What appaled me was the simplicity of interface, which I hate in IE/FF without taking away every single bar.



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scottie on 15 December 2008

I have it on my Windows partition on my lappy, and I use it when I want to do quick browsing, but don't need the extra features that Firefox add-ons offer



megaman79 on 15 December 2008

I still use Netscape, but im crazy. Firefox for back up.

Chrome is still in beta so im happy waiting



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Infamy79 on 15 December 2008

I hate the font anti-aliasing in Chrome, it may be pedantic, but it makes websites look like they are 10 years old. I still have it installed, but never really use it.

I still use IE7, I don't care what anyone says, it works fine for me. I just can't get used to Firefox, I don't get the big deal.



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Sardauk on 15 December 2008
indodude said:

Am I the only one? I hope not.

 

Tried it, didn't liked it... and I think Google will rapidly turn it into a data gatherer system...

Firefox  rules...



 

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Zlejedi on 15 December 2008

I hope you are the only one since it's just another form of google spyware just like gmail or even worse.



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scottie on 15 December 2008

Zlejedi, you cannot just say that without any evidence.

First off

Google annonymises user search data after 6 months
Yahoo " 13 months
MS " 18 months

If I know anything about which number is bigger than the other number :P

Second of all, the Google Chrome EULA was initially very bad, due to an administrative error, they changed this as soon as they noticed it, and it is now in line with other browsers

Come on, give me something concrete that Chrome or Gmail do that you don't like, it's quite hard to respond to someone who just blurts out what they've been told, without actually going into detail



Viper1 on 15 December 2008
goddog said:
Viper1 said:
goddog said:
sorry for the offtopic, but am i the only one who has noticed that FF has become increasingly unstable? even with no plug ins.. and leaking memory everywhere

FF2 early on had some stability issues but FF3 has been a rock.

If you're getting RAM leaks, check your add ons (if you ahve any) or update your Java.

 

 

no add ons due to stability issues (took them all of and clean installed it) and java is up to date... i dunno ff2 and 3 havent been good to me im thinking of downgrading to 1 if i can final a final version of it

 

You might have some system issues that could be causing FF problems.   I've never known anyone to have stability problems from FF2 and FF3 unless their computer had problems to start with.

 

What's your system specs, security programs and OS?

 



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Zlejedi on 15 December 2008
scottie said:
Zlejedi, you cannot just say that without any evidence.

Second of all, the Google Chrome EULA was initially very bad, due to an administrative error, they changed this as soon as they noticed it, and it is now in line with other browsers

Come on, give me something concrete that Chrome or Gmail do that you don't like, it's quite hard to respond to someone who just blurts out what they've been told, without actually going into detail

 

I don't need more evidence than initial Chrome EULA and I actually belive that Iraq mass destructions weapons were closer to truth than google administrative error.

And if you need more read this:

http://www.google.com/privacy.html    - which basically comes down to user oriented data mining for purposes of targeted ads.



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Senlis on 15 December 2008

The only thing keeping me from using Google Chrome is:

1) no support for linux
2) severe performance reduction when running shockwave (which nowadays is almost every site)

Maybe #2 has changed recently, but I would prefer an option to turn off shockwave. But it seems to me that Chrome is going to be the next big browser. It's ability to let one tab crash without crashing the entire browser is reason enough to use it. As for the lack of plugins, as one person mentioned, keep in mind that it is still beta.