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OCBucksFan;1649665; said:
1,500 Google Chrome Extensions launch for PC | News | TechRadar UK

The Chrome Extension Library just expanded. Should be interesting to see how many devs for Firefox addons take Chrome seriously.
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Must... resist... piling on extensions. Firefox used to be fast. I've been using Chrome for Just Plain Surfing and Firefox for the things that require the heavy toolkit. The new zoom is fun.

Although it looks like adding extensions won't be a problem... the new Chrome won't install even after uninstalling and redownloading. It still says I have an old version. :(
 
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Deety;1649667; said:
Must... resist... piling on extensions. Firefox used to be fast. I've been using Chrome for Just Plain Surfing and Firefox for the things that require the heavy toolkit. The new zoom is fun.

Although it looks like adding extensions won't be a problem... the new Chrome won't install even after uninstalling and redownloading. It still says I have an old version. :(
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Ouch :( I had that problem but uninstall and reinstall fixed it. Wait for the official update from 3.0 to 4.0 I guess.
 
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ57xzo287U]YouTube - Google Chrome OS UI Concept Video[/ame]

A litlte more insight on Chromium, it looks like they have come a long way from the beta I have, hopefully a new public beta comes out soon.
 
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OCBucksFan said:
Why Chrome Will be Your Next Browser - Reviews by PC Magazine

Good read on the progress that Chrome is making, the devs over at Firefox better step their game up or they will be fighting with a company that knows the web all too well.
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This guy says that opening 5 or 6 tabs in IE or Firefox makes his PC come to a crawl? WTF is wrong with his computer? I routinely have 10-15 tabs open in IE8 and never have a problem. And my PC is a $300 Dell desktop. He also glosses over all of the security holes by saying it will update the browser automatically. How does that work in a corporate setting where users can't install updates themselves? Hell, I run my home PC that way. You're asking for trouble otherwise.
 
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CleveBucks;1654470; said:
This guy says that opening 5 or 6 tabs in IE or Firefox makes his PC come to a crawl? WTF is wrong with his computer? I routinely have 10-15 tabs open in IE8 and never have a problem. And my PC is a $300 Dell desktop. He also glosses over all of the security holes by saying it will update the browser automatically. How does that work in a corporate setting where users can't install updates themselves? Hell, I run my home PC that way. You're asking for trouble otherwise.
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I don't ever see a corporate environment moving away from IE. We use it at work, our developers have it all so tied into .net and SQL that you can't even use half the functionality of our intranet with firefox or any browser other than IE and I have no problems at all with that. I can put policies in place to keep IE in check and to restrict my users, no such functionality for firefox or chrome.

I am assuming this is more meant towards the home users anyhow.

As for the big questions about updates, google has a pretty intense group of testers and all their betas are always available for the general public long before an official update is released. I have had Chrome with extensions for the better part of 7 months, as have thousands of other users reporting bugs.

And I don't know what you do with your firefox, but leaving the BpSpy here open would allow Firefox to just eat memory like it was going out of style. I have come in and seen my browser sitting at 6 gigs of memory in use, bringing my PC to a stand still.

Either way, I think this should be a hint for the devs of Firefox to start making some changes that have been needed for a long time, the seperate processes for each page would be a good start, a task manager from within the browser would be another.

Firefox will never go away, I remember back in the days of Netscape, which is essentially the same, how IE was supposed to kill it, never happened, but more options is only a positive for the consumer.
 
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Actually, I can't stand to use Firefox. Slow as crap compared to IE. Just opening up the program makes the computer act like I do when the alarm clock goes off at 6am. Whenever I visit BP I end up with around 20 tabs open before I start reading any threads and IE never misses a beat.
 
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CleveBucks;1654655; said:
Actually, I can't stand to use Firefox. Slow as crap compared to IE. Just opening up the program makes the computer act like I do when the alarm clock goes off at 6am. Whenever I visit BP I end up with around 20 tabs open before I start reading any threads and IE never misses a beat.
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I think IE has the same concerns it will always have. That's the corporate browser, so a best chance to exploit the security of a browser is there. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft has been notoriously slow about security updates, hell, a few weeks ago an exploit that had been availiable on all 32 bit versions of windows was shown that was known for the last 14 years.

So take it for what it's worth, it's a to each their own situation. I have used chrome for a while, but I am also in googles beta channels, which doesn't mean much other than I read their forums and install their experiments.
 
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OCBucksFan - Do you have any concerns about having too much of your information with Google? I already use an Android phone and g-mail and its chat feature. Being that Google's profit comes off of selling information about its users, I've been hesitant to use Chrome even though I really like it. What are your thoughts?
 
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OCBucksFan;1654747; said:
I think IE has the same concerns it will always have. That's the corporate browser, so a best chance to exploit the security of a browser is there. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft has been notoriously slow about security updates, hell, a few weeks ago an exploit that had been availiable on all 32 bit versions of windows was shown that was known for the last 14 years.

So take it for what it's worth, it's a to each their own situation. I have used chrome for a while, but I am also in googles beta channels, which doesn't mean much other than I read their forums and install their experiments.
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That reminds me, the shoe upgrade went well. Lil' Giuseppe wired the cable right through the shoestrings. Innovative kid, that one is.
 
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