Google Chrome broswer

[Rulke]

Greetings,

Anyone here use this on a regular basis? Is it worth switching to say from IE or Firefox? Curious as to its benefits/downsides w/o actually having to download it.

[Ragnell]

I recently switched to Chrome, Firefox was doing this to me
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7493/ohu.jpg

[Drex]

chrome is great if you use other google services often since it syncs up so cleanly to your google account. on the other hand, it has a longer boot-time than the other browsers and hogs more memory, though firefox still seems to have memory leak issues and some instability since 4.0 released. IE has improved a lot, but minimal extension support so no fun/helpful addons, skins, etc. if you're already using firefox, i'd say no, you won't notice much of any difference switching to chrome other than having to DL and install chrome extensions to replace your firefox add-ons that you won't be using. if you're using firefox and having problems, then it probably would be less hassle to switch to chrome than try to fix whatever is up with firefox.

[Cream Soda]

Firefox - problems = palemoon
http://www.palemoon.org/

All add ons compatible

[Ragnell]

I had issues with palemoon

[shaddix]

Chrome has always been significantly faster startup time than firefox on any PC I have ever used it on. I put it on old-ass machines like celerons and pentium Ds just because it is twice as fast to load vs firefox.

Though the memory usage is a bit high.

[Amastacia]

Palemoon still has FF memory leak issues.

That being said, Chrome doesn't have NoScript.

So...

Firefox or gtfo. At least until Google has a script blocker.

I use both Palemoon and FF4, each has its ups and downs. I actually much prefer Chrome's speed, but I have no interest whatsoever in browsing without script blocking.

[Kurokikaze]

Chrome for the motherfucking win. Chrome to Phone (for Android users) is icing on the cake. <3

[stewie]

Firefox if you want a working adblock and noscript, chrome otherwise.

[Tymon]

Chrome's adblock is just as good as Firefox's now.

NoScript is more or less built in, as is Greasemonkey. If you want even more script blocking, there's Flashblock which I think is even more comprehensive than Firefox, but I've found that a lot of XI people are still paranoid over iframes so you might want to go with FF if you're still worried about that.

In the end, I prefer Chromium. Chrome without the google branding or the bloat; it's the browser that Google bought and used the source to make Chrome.

[Meyor]

When I updated firefox it kept crashing so I thought I would try chrome out, and have been very pleased with it so far. Try it out, see what you like, its not a major life decision.

[Timwakefield]

Slightly off-topic kinda-ish:

Long time Chrome user, long time Android user, just discovered this app: www.textyapp.com

It's amazing if you spend a considerable amount of time at a computer during the day. Puts a popup window in Chrome that you can recieve/reply to text messages right on your desktop/laptop. I am absolutely in love with it, especially being able to text whoever I want whenever I want while at work without looking like I'm sitting there on my phone all day.

Still in beta, and you still have to "Sign up", but as far as I know you'll still automatically get an invite after like an hour or two.

[Rellikard]

Certain web pages just take forever to load for me with Chrome. Sometimes it works great, others it doesn't but I think there just may be an issue with this computer because it works fine on my others. FF again has huge memory leaks. If only IE9 had the customization and add-on support. Every webpage in IE9 loans in about 1-2 seconds. Not sure what kind of hardware acceleration FF is using but IE9 did it right.

[Seanr]

Slightly off-topic kinda-ish:

Long time Chrome user, long time Android user, just discovered this app: www.textyapp.com

It's amazing if you spend a considerable amount of time at a computer during the day. Puts a popup window in Chrome that you can recieve/reply to text messages right on your desktop/laptop. I am absolutely in love with it, especially being able to text whoever I want whenever I want while at work without looking like I'm sitting there on my phone all day.

Still in beta, and you still have to "Sign up", but as far as I know you'll still automatically get an invite after like an hour or two.

still waiting for my invite so in the meantime i've been using lazydroid

[Kenshiin]

Is there a way to delete my history every time I close chrome? What add ons should I be using for safety?

[Ardrial]

Click & Clean

[Furtwangler]

still waiting for my invite so in the meantime i've been using lazydroid

I use Google voice and still can accomplish the same thing, may want to look into it

[Elesirdur]

Chrome is the way to go. The built-in Sync feature is great; syncs your addons too.

The only current downside to Chrome I can think of is that it has no profile feature. You can do it yourself - takes all of 5 minutes to do so - but it's not directly built-in like with Firefox. I know a profile manager is in the works from Google Labs, but if you just search for 'chrome multiple profile' you can find an easy guide to get it set up. Good if, like me, you've got a significant other who uses your computer but you don't want them to see your search history (and private mode is annoying for full-time use).

[Seanr]

I use Google voice and still can accomplish the same thing, may want to look into it

you talkin about voice/sprint integration? or is there something else? I'm talking about getting my regular sprint texts, i already use the gvoice web client to text people though

[Rellikard]

Go to Options > Under the Hood > Privacy (Content Settings Button) > "Clear cookies and other site and plug-in data when I close my browser" box is only setting like that but doesn't seem like you can just delete history.