I have been online since I was 15 which may not seem unusual except that was 13 years ago. I was raised by an aunt who was extremely rare in her profession, a female computer programmer. It was her that got me interested in computers and the web. Thirteen years ago, I logged online with a telephone and modem that was a blazing 16,000 bps on a Packard Bell DX 486 that had a rip-snorting 16 MB of pure RAM...and the now classic, WIN 3.1...anyways.... Netscape was my first browser, until it was bought out by the company with the touch of death, AOL. I graduated to WIN 95 (and IE), WIN 98 and WIN XP. About 6 years I tried Firefox and have stuck with it. I guess I got too set in my old age of 28 and started noticing Firefox was lagging, lagging and lagging regardless of how I tweaked it. I thought I'd give Chrome v 7.0 a try. I can only say one thing: WOW! It is fast, almost 5 times as fast as firefox (I had the latest version) and has all the add-ons I like without taking away the speed. However, my processes have increased along with at least Chrome sucking up about 46,000K more memory. Anyone else using chrome that knows of any tweaks I can do? Do you like Chrome? What should I watch out for? Thanks.
Chrome is awesome. I use it as my primary browser. But it is still lacking in some areas. At work I have to use IE still for a lot of sites, because they use Active X or other stuff that Chrome doesn't understand or interpret correctly. Its interface takes some getting used to, and there are some UI elements I am not crazy about (getting to the options menus is a bit more of a pain than with Firefox or IE). I like how they do tabbed browsing a lot though. Firefox has a massive library of pluggins, though Chrome has a decent library too. Chrome is very fast, and the rendering is done well for the most part. It has completely replaced Firefox for my browsing needs. I really cant think of anything Firefox does better.
Chrome's speed is just amazing. Much faster than anything else I've used before, although it can crap out on me sometimes, and can be a little less reliable than Firefox. Overall, though, I use it as my primary, too, simply because of the speed!
If you want only a basic browser that works, and is fast then you should look at Safari. It is very rare that I have to use IE. I think it is slightly better than Chrome, though that could be because I am used to it.
Just like the search engine from google, chrome brings great speed and simplicity. Which is just what I want. It is by far the fastest browser I have tried, which covers all the big names, while keeping my surfing uncluttered while still customizable. Chrome is the best!
My first computer was a well used Next PC clone running Nextstep 3.3 for x86. Webkit browsers (Safari, Chrome, etc) tend to be somewhat faster, though not five times faster for sure. If that's actually the case, there was something dreadfully wrong with your particular Firefox setup. It's not surprising that Chrome uses a bit more memory, however, because it puts every page in a separate process. That will probably improve with webkit 2, which will bring that process-per-page capability to all webkit browsers, not just Chrome. I primarily use Safari, so I'm not sure I would be much help.
I've been using Chrome for normal browsing (reluctantly) for the past few months, and it seems that every time I click on more than a couple links at a time, it takes a long time (4 seconds or so) for the browser to respond. But I frequently have to do just that - it slows me down significantly. Does anyone else have this problem? This might have something to do with the fact that I'm using AdBlock (2.2.7) and each URL has to be scanned first. But, there are often significant delays even after the URL is scanned but the page is still being loaded. For instance, using Page Down/Page Up often takes a few seconds to work if there's anything else the browser is loading in some other tab. Strangely, switching tabs is not affected by this. I can switch tabs as much as I like without delay, but navigating within a tab is difficult until all other tabs are partly finished loading.
Another thing is that Chrome's dictionary it has for spell-check seems to be somewhat lacking... a decent number of words that Google's search engine says are spelled correctly are flagged by Chrome.
I have one small problem with Chrome that I had with firefox. I use image hosting sites a lot, imageshack in the past but now, imgur. On firefox, either host site would cause the browser to crash when I uploaded. I got a "shockwave" error. After I got Chrome, I uninstalled all the shockwave programs, etc. I still get an occasional error (nowhere near as often as on firefox) but at least it doesn't crash Chrome. If I try again, it works, no problem. I can live with it.
A related problem to the page-load-delay mentioned before is that pressing Esc to stop a page from loading never works. Since keyboard input does not register for a few seconds while a page is actively loading (while the URL is being checked for ads, or when the page content is loading - but not when it's passively waiting for the IP address to resolve) - usually by the time the Esc is registered, the page is already loaded. Also, Chrome seems to check for new versions of pages every time a tab with a URL is opened or re-opened. This is a problem when I know that the content I want is cached somewhere, but it's no longer on the web server, so I can't access it! On Firefox, re-opening a closed tab does not automatically refresh the page, nor does pressing the Back button. This happened to me just now. I wrote something similar to the above before in a post response, but the politicalforum database spat up an error. On Firefox, pressing "Back" would preserve the text, but not on Chrome! Chrome checks for a new version of the page even when "Back" is pressed... meaning that entered form data can be lost very easily if anything is different. Another thing is that my Chrome has a weird loading delay: even after a page has been downloaded (when the loading icon in the tab title bar stops rotating), it sometimes takes a little time for the page to actually display. On a new tab, this results in just a white screen being displayed for a second or two; on tabs which used to have previous web sites on them (eg. after you click a link), very often the previous site is displayed for a moment or two before the new web site is displayed - even if the page appears to be already loaded! Firefox has none of these problems yet I keep using Chrome anyway. I must be masochistic. Does anyone else have any of the problems listed in my above few posts? I'm confused by everyone saying Chrome is fast.
It is a usability problem when your job requires that you access sites that use active X. Chrome will let you "add" words to the dictionary though via right-click, so it will not pester you again to correct word that you know are already spelled right. Thats something I really like about it.
Just as with Microshaft it's unwise to put all of your eggs in the Google basket. Google is a good search engine but try Opera as a browser.
Me too. I got spoiled with the spell check on firefox and have become frustrated with the one on Chrome. My problem isn't spelling as much as it is being a somewhat dyslexic typer.
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I used Chrome for about a year but I had some issue with it. The main one is that it did leave multiple "zombie" process on both of myh home system once I shut it down. Sometime as many as 20 such process would stay in the task manager eating quite a big chunk of my ram. I did love the fact that once I've installed a plugin on one system, the simple act of opening chrome on the other one would synch it and install the missing plugins.
You were using Windows 3.1 in 1999? Firefox can be configured to be fairly quick as well, though not quite as fast at rendering. On the other hand, there are a fair number of security-related addons that aren't replicated on Chrome (to my knowledge), like automatic https redirection. OTOH, Chrome sandboxing is better, so...
I used Chrome. It's the best browser out there right now. Fire Fox has had tons of issues as of late, Safari is...well mac...enough said. Opera is outdated. IE is BLEH....nobody that cares about their web experience uses IE.
