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

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

    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.

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

    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.

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

    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.

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

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

    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?

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

    Quote Originally Posted by SpawnofSonic View Post
    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.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Betty_Swallocks View Post
    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.

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

    It's fast, maybe faster, but does anybody care any more now we've reached the point where the differences are so small?
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    Re: First looks - Google Chrome: how does it stack up to the competition?

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Betty_Swallocks View Post
    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!

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

    i cant find the home button :\

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

    Quote Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle View Post
    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.
    "Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having."

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

    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

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

    no mention of safari? ...

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

    Quote Originally Posted by ionicle View Post
    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.

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