News - Google Chrome 2 released, over 300 bugs squashed

[HEXUS]

Google has launched the latest version of its Chrome browser, promising improved performance and stability.

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[the-PAIN]

thats great i was having a lot of issues with it before

is it faster than firefox now???

[aidanjt]

It's always been faster than firefox. Just not stable or bug free (not that I'm implying Firefox is completely stable and bug free, that'd be rediculous).

Speaking of which, I wonder if they've fixed that annoying text input rendering bug.

[Stringent]

Hmm bit sluggish compared to FF IMO. Hexus site renders quicker in FF.

Anything on plugins? I am surprised that GMail isn't a plugin yet.

[TAKTAK]

Hmm bit sluggish compared to FF IMO. Hexus site renders quicker in FF.

Is that from nothing, or pulling things from cache?

And i haven't tried Chrome yet, it just looks too basic, simple is good, but i love my firefox addons

[Methanoid]

If Chrome was smart they'd make it FF-plugin compatible (if that were possible) as most FF users would never leave their plugins behind.. I wouldnt!

[Vadim]

it still is quite far from making competition to firefox 3.5 beta4 which i love btw as its the fastest firefox ever

[0iD]

Has a lot smaller memory footprint than FF, comparable to Opera.
Well it does on my machine anyway

[Funkstar]

OiD, thats one of the reasons I like Opera. I think it actually loads alightly faster than IE8 on my laptop

I like my browsers to be pretty much instant. Thats one reason I stuck with IE for so long. But a friend bugged me relentlesly until I gave Opera a try, and now I'm hooked.

[MadduckUK]

chrome is actually faster than the firey fox, trouble is the firey fox is "not slow at all" and has addons that i really cant do without now.. so chrome needs to expand in other directions than speed to win me over

[Mattus]

I'm more than willing to put up with the few seconds it takes to load Firefox so I can use my extensions. I only load it once a day anyway Memory usage is a non-issue with the price of RAM these days and the fact that most people have at least 2GB.

Chrome is a fine replacement for IE but the lack of extension support is the killer..

[lodore]

I tryed Chrome 1 and found it lacking in features.
doesnt seem like that has changed so i will stick with opera.
speaking of which opera 10 is so much faster than opera 9.64. its like its on drugs!

[MadduckUK]

bla bla

i think that's it, if chrome came out as the only alternative to IE it would have made a killing, as it stands firefox is a far more mature, live with everyday applications.

opera on windows mobile is still brilliant though, certainly got that segment covered

[TheAnimus]

Chrome i like for its multi tabs. If you have two or more monitors, been able to drag out and in tabs is a really good killer feature, i always hated tabbed browsing (and i'm sure i've ranted on this forum enough about it) because of how that problem happened.

On windows 7, i like it too for the quick posistioning of side by side for widescreen screens like my home desktop.

[Spud1]

I used chrome exclusivly on the Windows 7 Beta builds, and it was working great for the most part..enough to be my primary browser - quickest to load, quickest to render, minimal layout issues (compared to the IE8 beta build that came with 7 at the time) and some nice little features which got used more often than I would expect (such as dragging tabs etc).

Sadly it didn't work on 7 RC1 unless you ran it in sandbox mode..which kind of defeats the point of using chrome from a technical perspective..and running it that way slows the whole thing down

Installing this new version now though..even though I quite like IE8 final (still much nicer than firefox) would still prefer to be running chrome if its working now

edit - all works fine with the new version

[Singh400]

Installed Growser 2.0 (AKA Chrome) last night, and I'm loving it. It's latest longer than FF did anyway