Google Chrome.

[Octavious]

Oh wow, some of the development tools that come with Chrome are pretty wicked. I'm loving it so far and with a few tweaks I could see this being a pretty awesome browser.

[Kriz]

Ridiculously fast.

Only thing I disliked out of the box was it was set to accept all third party cookies. While, yes, some sites that need it (I think like Rememberthemilk or whatever) legitimately have a reason, but more often than not third party cookies exist only to track you or are made unwillingly.

To be fair I only know Safari to lock cookies to only from first-party sites.

[Dezzimal]

dezz:%

In ur forums crashin ur chrome.

[octopus]

whoa, lol D:

[Octavious]

You son of a bitch! D: now I'm curious why that crashes it...

[Sera]

no chrome for mac yet QQ

[Frenzy]

Well, I followed the pros and cons of the "data octopus" browser on different boards all day.
Many people where glamoring for NoScript and Adblock, but one thing got never talked about: Can one simply turn off JS without plugin, fork, or anything else?
Every other browser I have used to date had the option to turn JS off (okay, with one exception: Lynx, so it is forgiven )

[Dezzimal]

You son of a bitch! D: now I'm curious why that crashes it...

Not only does it crash it, it crashes every process and not just the rogue tab.

[Octavious]

Not only does it crash it, it crashes every process and not just the rogue tab.

the question remains, why! D:

[Kaslo]

no chrome for mac yet QQ

inoright

[MisterBob]

I don't have a home page anymore. Other than that, I love it!

My homepage used to be iGoogle, where I'd stay abreast of various news sources and other garbage I didn't need.

Failing to look at the options menu makes me sad

[Elesirdur]

I am still surprised at the overall memory usage of Google Chrome. Considering they have designed this to be used on low-memory applications, like mobile phones and micro-PCs, having a three-tabbed browser opening sites that do include things like flash and java taking up over 100 MB of memory seems a bit excessive.

I tried the same memory test on my home PC (E8400 CPU and 2GB of RAM) and came out with the same numbers as I got on my work machine. Of course at home 100 MB of memory usage is trivial, even if I've got WoW or something running in the background. But on my severely RAM limited workstation, just 512 MB of physical memory, multi-tasking with Outlook, Word, Excel, Foxit Reader, and 100 MB of Google Chrome, there's a serious pinch put on available memory for processing.

Anyway, I think I'll keep using it on my work PC since it is faster than FF3 and I can run incognito when I need it.

[Gulkeeva]

http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html

11. Content licence from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that 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 licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence 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.

11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above licence.

wut

[Zosi]

Here's a good blog covering Chrome stuff, including some info that was otherwise hard to find.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/type/chrome/

In particular, it confirms that there will be some kind of extensions/addons support aside from plugins, a la Firefox's, to allow for things like AdBlock and NoScript. It also breaks down exactly how much Chrome downloads/uploads to Google and how to disable most of it, for you privacy nuts.

Something else I'd like to address, since it's all over the tech news at the moment... Google Chrome's EULA is the stock Google Accounts EULA, the same one they use for anything and everything that requires you to log in to Google, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Groups, etc. It has the following paragraph in it:

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.It's pretty boilerplate stuff for forums or web apps, but it was apparently left in the Chrome EULA as an oversight. Supposedly Google Legal is already aware of the issue, and it'll be reworked to exclude the actual browser (through "Additional Terms" as mentioned) soon.

Also, Chrome does install the Google Updater program, just like the rest of their desktop apps. I certainly wish that they made it easier to disable and uninstalled it when you removed the last program that relied upon it, but I wouldn't be surprised if that gets improved or fixed as the beta goes on.

[Zosi]

As a specific reply to Gulk, their privacy policy supersedes the EULA, and Google Chrome currently has no facilities to send any kind of data you submit or post through the browser to Google. As in, it's both practically and legally impossible for them to actually do that. Pretty clearly accidental.

[Khamsin]

http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html

11. Content licence from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that 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 licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence 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.

11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above licence.

wut

When you post something, say a written post on BG or something to your site, or upload pictures using your browser, it'll all pass through the software and be manipulated by the Services in order to do what you want done with it (e.g. uploading it on your site, displaying it when you visit the webpage, or whatnot). They have to have the right to display/manipulate/etc. your stuff or you could sue Google when you look at your own website displaying your copyrighted material because Google didn't get your permission to display your stuff in its browser... even though you were the one who requested it.

It's stupid, but a legality issue. That's why they say "..for the sole purpose..", they don't plan on actually stealing your work and displaying, altering, or selling it off in galleries.

[MisterBob]

anything:% will crash chrome, typing it into the address bar will as well

[Dezzimal]

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/s...romium-rel-xp/

Bleeding edge beta builds, new one coming out every hour or so currently. The about:% bug is "fixed" in that it only crashes your current tab now.

[Zosi]

Google's response about the EULA thing:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...change-it.html

[GRT]

can i show a bookmarks pull down instead of showing the bar?