google chrome is out of the beta stage!

Thankyou so much for posting this! I have been on Chrome since the beginning aswell. I hope all of the unresponsive page loading errors are fixed! :nod:

Funny thing too, two days ago I went to Chromes website to see if it was out of the beta stage and it wasnt... Ha! :110:

 

Nothing is tearing me away from Firefox at the moment, it has so many USEFUL add-ons (for me) that anything else is really a step down.

 

Firefox does have some badass extensions.

 

That's a big drawback for Chrome now. I know a lot of people that gave it a go but missed add-ons too much. Adblock Plus is a popular one, which begs the question as to whether Google would tolerate an adblocker for Chrome.

There is a Linux port in development. Still needs a bit of work though.

 

extensions are scheduled for early new year i can't wait

 

I tend to use Chrome for forums, since it's so much quicker at rendering. It also allows text box resizing, which is great. Until it has functional equivalents of NoScript and AdBlock Plus, and has some kind of gesture support, it'll never replace Firefox as my main browser, though.

 

Well having had a good test of chrome i can say welcome back to my Firefox as for some reason no files work when downloaded with chrome for some reason but if download the same file in firefox they install/load up fine. Also the above mention of NoScript and AdBlock Plus are a drawback.

I won't say the browser is bad but it not as good as my firefox at the moment.

 

I think Ad blocking is always going to be a sore point on a Google browser. Some would call their toolbar unnecessary, sometimes even spyware. And I'm sure that technology must be built into Chrome, right?

 

no retro since the first beta they changed the eula of whaterver it's called and no more personal infos are taken.

also 3do, i don'y understand what you mean... i have no such problems and the included downloader supports even pausing and re-downloading... actually i use it everyday with no problem. you might warn them of a bug, their open source community is incredibly fast in fixing bugs.

concerning adblock, it'll get it next year when the extension will be out, so far it has only popup blocking

 

I might have to warn them of a bug. The main problem have is i'll download a file lets say a freeware program installer with an EXE extension and it seems to download fine but the actual file never works and i get some vista error but if i do the same in firefox it runs ok.

 

I liked it but I'm a firefox loyalist.

Chrome is just the first step for google how long before there's a Google OS?

 

Google won't make an OS. There's no point. Too much time and money involved, and even if they did, what would the point be? Chrome is aimed primarily at the home user I guess. The home user uses Windows - very occasionally Linux. Unless you can make an OS that is compatible with Windows apps (i.e. bloated) then you know there's no point.

BeOS was a great OS. It performed way better than Windows (I had several videos open at once on BeOS on a laptop that struggled to play two on Windows). Where is it now? Virtually dead - it lives on in fridges and that's about it!!!

 

Is it true google uses there own version of ubuntu internally?

Or anally?

 

Nah, they changed it within a couple of weeks of launch.

You're right, but I'd re-state the point - Chrome is the OS. Google's revenue doesn't come from sales, it comes from advertising, so for them it's completely irrelevant whether the underlying OS is Windows or Linux or OS2/Warp. Their most important apps are in "the cloud", so the browser is the operating system. The real question is, now that they have control of a browser, whether or not they make any of their apps Chrome-only. That's the point at which the "Google monopoly" criticisms would start to have some bite.

BeOS died because their business was directly in competition with Microsoft's, i.e. they were selling operating systems for profit. Google aren't in this situation, they don't need to fight tooth and nail over software sales and pack ins and so forth. Google make their money whichever OS is dominant, so why fight it out? Hypothetically, though, if Google did release an x86 OS, it'd be much less likely to die in the way BeOS did - it'd have almost limitless funding and wouldn't ever need to turn a profit.

Have you checked out ReactOS, incidentally? Interesting project.

 

I don't see Google making an OS anytime soon, maybe in some time after Chrome is a bit more standarized. Anyway, I wouldn't expect them to make something more advanced than a Linux distribution.

Really great project, I've been following it for a couple of years and the progress they've done in this time is impressive. It's supposed to get out of alpha stage for next year, for then they hope ReactOS to be compatible with about 50% of Windows 2000/XP applications...

 

Hey PhreQuencYViii,


What so great about opera? I didn't find them so good years ago, has it changed much?

 

Opera has a lot of stuff built in that you need to add in to Firefox. However, in my experience none of it is as flexible - the content blocking solution doesn't come close to the AdBlock/NoScript combination. However, a lot of people have been having issues with FF3 (myself included) so it's seen something of a revival over the last few months. There's nothing much wrong with it, anyway, although it certainly isn't as fast as Chrome.

 

I'm quite happy with safari, however I'm running google chrome on my bootcamp and yeah it isn't bad. My only gripe is that it somehow feels too far from the norm, i'm becoming quite set in my computing ways and the interface of chrome just doesn't flow naturally for me.

 

Let's go back to the days of Netscape! HOORAY!