Thread: Google browser Chrome

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Originally Posted by milan

will it work for RS?? i mean i think v wont have to wait for 1 download at a time.. i think in icognito.. we can download multiplefiles at same time... as a free user.. i dont know actually.. never tried.. correct me.. if am wrong..

I don't think icognito mode will hide your ip(which is what RS uses to identify for free users). It will stop chrome from storing any cache, cookies etc on your computer. There is an addon for Firefox called 'Stealther' which will do exactly the same. Or maybe I could be wrong.

ny 1 ny ideas>>???

i just installed this few mins back and found it to be very light on system and working good, just trying to use it on xp right now may be will use it on home vista too but still FF is my default browser

as of now chrome is awesome...the features and everything...though I did find chrome hanging sometimes is some video sites like youtube....but thats only sometimes....hope google removes all the bugs soon

Chrome's Corporate Review

Speed
Chrome is being touted as faster than other browsers, and I've seen some reports where people have said it really is faster. Admittedly, my test experience wasn't a controlled laboratory study, but I'm just not seeing a big improvement in speed.

It's certainly not any slower than IE, but I don't notice any particular speed improvement over IE either. For me, when you claim faster speed, it should mean noticeably faster, something that is obvious and doesn't need a chronograph to measure minor differences.

Security
Google claims that it was able to design Chrome for the Internet as it exists today, not as it was years ago. So rather than creating patches as new threats and usage of the Internet evolved, Google says it designed a more robust security architecture. There is a certain logic to this; the basic flaw, however, is that the Internet is not static. Just as IE has had to adapt, so will Chrome.

Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) has always claimed that IE has excellent security, something it touts with a straight face every time it issues a new security patch. I expect that we will see the same with Chrome. In fact, within hours of Chrome's release, there were reports of possible security flaws.

Stability
Chrome uses what Google calls a "multiprocess architecture," which allows Web pages to continue to function even if one or more pages crash. While in the past, one crashed page might crash the entire browser, now the problem would be contained.

Since Web pages only crash when you don't want them to, I wasn't able to personally test this. I hope it works as advertised, as this could come in very handy at times. There is, however, a price to pay for to this: Chrome does use substantially more memory than IE to provide this functionality, and it could be a problem for users with older hardware.

Nice Features
One of the features that I like the best is the "most visited page." When you open a new tab, you see a screen shot of the sites that you visit most often. It's like having your most-used bookmarks displayed for easy use. I've found this very handy when researching topics and going back and forth between different sites, and you can also set Chrome to open to "most visited" rather than one particular page.

The browser also offers a number of other nice features, such as "Paste and Go." When you place the cursor in the address box and right click you have a choice of "Paste" and also "Paste and Go." "Paste and Go" combines "Paste" and enter, saving me one key stroke. Maybe it's not a big deal, but I must say I like it--and it indicates that Google has really thought about how people use a browser.

Some Sites Don't Support Chrome
You may find that Chrome works well on many of your favorite sites. But if you have a problem with a site and call its Web site support, you may find that the site doesn't support the use of Chrome.

And support for new browsers is often slow in coming. Firefox was launched in 2004 and now has about 20% of the market. Yet it was only a few weeks ago that Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ), one of the largest financial institutions in the world, announced that it would officially support the use of Firefox on its site. Until Chrome gains some significant market share, you may need to hang on to IE as a backup for those sites where Chrome doesn't work well--or at all.

Some Sites Only Allow IE
Do you like to play games on MSN? If so, don't plan on using Chrome (or Firefox, either). If you go to the Games section with Chrome, you'll get a message stating "Important Note: Your browser or operating system does not meet the minimum requirements to play on MSN Games. You may be able to download games for offline play; however, the online games can be played only with Internet Explorer version 6 or later, and Windows 2000 or later."

Microsoft, which likes to play hardball, is obviously not going out of its way to make it easy to use a competing product.

To be fair to Microsoft, you may find this on other sites, too, as developers sometimes design only for IE because it is the most commonly used browser. Over time--and as the usage of Chrome and Firefox increase--I would expect this to become less of an issue, although it may never disappear completely.

Finally, there are a couple of issues that are important to corporate users: How well will Chrome work with Outlook Web Access, and will it show "presence" with Microsoft's Unified Communication?

Outlook Web Access
Many corporate users find OWA a simple way to access their e-mail when they don't have access to their work computers. Just open up a browser window on any computer, cruise to your site and you are in.

Chrome does appear to work with OWA, but you'll note some differences, such as no preview window. Chrome also gives you fewer calendar options. It only lets you choose daily or weekly views, compared with IE, which gives you the option of a monthly view.

Presence
If your company uses Microsoft's Unified Communications technology, you may be familiar with the "jelly bean" that indicates the status or "presence" as indicated by the colored icon that appears next to a person's name in an application. Unfortunately, this doesn't work with Chrome, which displays everyone as "presence unknown," as if the browser was outside the company's network.

I have found some issues with Google Chrome.

It is a nice browser but (all) keyboard shortcuts that work in IE for vBulletin do not work in Chrome. e.g.
Ctrl+I for bbcode of [ I ] and [ /I ]
Ctrl+B for bbcode of [ B] and [ /B ]
etc.

p/s. I added the space between [ and ] braces so that bbcode is not implemented.