First looks - Google Chrome: how does it stack up to the competition?

[HEXUS]

Google has launched its first-ever web browser, and we pit it against Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox and Opera.

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[vinnyT]

Does it really matter? How many browsers are really needed? On my system I have 3, opera, firefox and ie7/8, am I going to install another, only if it's good enough to do more than 1 of the others better.

From this article it's no better than the others, maybe if Iwas a web designer I would install it, but the way things are at the moment no.

[Betty_Swallocks]

Looks nice but I'm not liking the terms and conditions. Unless I'm reading it wrong it seems to be saying that if I post, say, a photo I've taken I'm giving them the right to use it in any way they see fit including for their profit.
That's not on. I shan't be using it.

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.

11.2 You agree that this licence includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organisations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.

11.3 You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this licence shall permit Google to take these actions.

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

[kingpotnoodle]

It's pretty good for a beta IMHO, no doubt more features and better speed is to come.

The minimal UI also works very well on my EEE 901, wasting less screen area with tool bars is always good.

[dangel]

The download size is misleading - you "download" the "downloader" not the app.

With a little research:

Chrome.7z is 21.8mb
setup.exe is 548kb

(both are in the "installer" directory it creates).

That makes it as chunky is IE (or thereabouts) and FF3/Opera are tiny by comparison (with better feature sets).

[SpawnofSonic]

With regard to the performance tests, were each of the browsers tested without any plugin's/addon's installed to provide a fair and equal test?

[Parm]

With regard to the performance tests, were each of the browsers tested without any plugin's/addon's installed to provide a fair and equal test?

Sonic, all the browsers were installed as fresh, apart from IE7.

IE7 had the iespell addon installed but deactivated.

[Saracen]

Looks nice but I'm not liking the terms and conditions. Unless I'm reading it wrong it seems to be saying that if I post, say, a photo I've taken I'm giving them the right to use it in any way they see fit including for their profit.
That's not on. I shan't be using it.

That's how I read it too, and given that, I'm not even prepared to look at it in use, because no way would I use it.

[dangel]

It's fast, maybe faster, but does anybody care any more now we've reached the point where the differences are so small?

[dangel]

There's something odd here:

chrome.7z is 21.8MB

but if you extract it, then recompress the contents with winrar 3.71 (best compression) it's 7.67mb

[kingpotnoodle]

Looks nice but I'm not liking the terms and conditions. Unless I'm reading it wrong it seems to be saying that if I post, say, a photo I've taken I'm giving them the right to use it in any way they see fit including for their profit.
That's not on. I shan't be using it.

I suspect that is the case for many web 'services'.

Bottom line, if you don't want something you have made being ripped off then don't post it on someone else's website so that they then hold rights over it!

[GoNz0]

i cant find the home button :\

[Betty_Swallocks]

Bottom line, if you don't want something you have made being ripped off then don't post it on someone else's website so that they then hold rights over it!

Absolutely true, but this seems to be going further than that. It seems to be saying that if you use Chrome to post things to ANY website even your own they have the right to use it.

[GoNz0]

i think it may be better to uninstall it in my case then


haha when you uninstall it says in the confirmation box "is it something we said ?"

hell yeh it is

[ionicle]

no mention of safari? ...

[cobhc]

no mention of safari? ...

Yeah, I was a little miffed that Safari wasn't included in the tests, as I'm sure it would have given Google Chrome a good run for it's money.