Comments on: Review: Google Chrome beta released for Windows

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:51:01 +0000

Yeah, I noticed that difference, too. Web page designers who try to match graphics to text can be in for trouble, though. And when sizing elements to fit text, you need to use ems instead of pixels. But that’s just good webdev practice anyway.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:47:35 +0000

Does it run Windows? If so, I wonder what Windows message is being sent for scroll up? If you have Visual Studio installed, you could use the Spy++ app to check it out.

If you’re not on Windows, then I have no idea how to diagnose that.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:45:18 +0000

That’s an interesting perspective, Dennis. In my experience, Google Chrome gives up on page loads sooner than the other browsers. I get a lot more page load failures that are cured by simply doing a refresh.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:41:50 +0000

I agree that no feed support is a definite deficit. Hopefully that will be coming soon.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:39:14 +0000

I never noticed before that in Firefox when you press the scroll wheel you get some weird thing displayed in the middle of the page — I’m not sure how to use it, though. So I don’t miss that in Chrome, especially since just scrolling the wheel works fine.

By: Merly

Merly — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:16:31 +0000

I am not sure how to describe this but, I miss the scroll wheel feature that glides the pages when you’ve pressed the wheel.

Has anyone used this in Chrome?

By: Zlatko

Zlatko — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:25:38 +0000

The browser is great but there is one little glitch, I use a notebook and on my mouse pad I have the simple scroller for websites or any type of document and it will scroll down but it will not go back up.

By: Dennis Akpenyi

Dennis Akpenyi — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:22:20 +0000

I agree with you, geeks can sexy and ‘crazy’, too! I have all Beta Browsers and that a least qualifies me to make some input…I am not going to pretend that I know it all but I am going to report from my experience with three browsers- Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), Firefox 3.0.1 and Google Chromes. I have been using IE7 before I upgraded to IE8 when Microsoft launched recently. Mozilla Firefox has also been with me before I downloaded the 3.0.1 version a week or two ago from Yahoo! I installed all three of them and I have test driving all three of them. In fact, I have all three pinned to my quick launch pad.
I use a Dell Inspiron 1520 Core 2 Duo (Intel) and I reside in an area (West Africa) where we still have the challenges of small bandwidth. From my experience I would openly assert Google Chrome browser does some ‘automagic’. Where Firefox 3.0.1 and IE8 crawl to a halt unable to ‘cope’ with the signals coming in trickles, Chrome chugs painstakingly on until my page is completely loaded. The only issue I have with Chrome is its difficulty in downloading PDF files. When I want to download PDF file I usually opt for IE8 because it allows my internet downloader do the job. I made Chrome my default browser and I tell you sometimes it could be a ‘jealous bride’, it wants to monitor and manage every extensions and protocols. In all, Chrome browser is really a ‘man Friday’ when browsing speed gets so slow. IE8 and firefox3.0.1 will usually back off.
If you don’t believe me, maybe you should bring your PC to any average cybercafé in Nigeria and get a feel of what I am talking about. The creator of both IE8 and Firefox 3.0.1 did a fantastic job but it seems to me that they released their browsers into circulation so as to maintain their esteemed places in the hearts of surfers. It feels safe to conclude that Google Chrome creators had concerns for the plights of surfers who reside in small bandwidth areas.
-7nobles

By: David

David — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:10:51 +0000

I’ve been using Chrome for a couple of days and it’s already my ‘default’ browser as it’s just so quick to start up and surf. The only thing I really miss (as an Opera user) is an RSS feed. That’s a major absence for me as I keep tabs on feeds throughout the day. Maybe it’s just cool to use an uncluttered and quick program for a change – I particularly like the fact it dumps the Windows frame and maximizes space for the web page. Makes sense as that’s what you want to see. For me a very good start. Just not sure if I like one company providing me with everything…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:57:23 +0000

One thing that Chrome does better than IE7 is Zoom. This is important to me because I surf on my TV. Chrome calls it “Text Zoom”…and the text tends to resize only and formats it so only vertical scrolling is required . IE7 treats the entire web page as one image. The zoom requires scrolling horizontal and vertical. The omnibox is s cool feature.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:31:36 +0000

Hmm… I haven’t seen that. For me, it comes right up. But I’m running a Core Duo 2 Ghz with 2GB of memory. Maybe it has challenges with more restricted environments.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:41:30 +0000

Your review is exactly the first impression that i got. But the only thing that is killing the experience is that oh-so-often cpu 100% spike that froze my computer for 10 seconds everytime i visit a webpage with flash video, like YouTube.