shhhhhhh! Google chrome secrets!
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Chris@Crane
type them into the address bar
another one:
typing ':%' crashes the browser immediately!
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thedesigntailor
I don't get anything for
about:internet
about:histogram
about
Me neither...
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achilles
sorry, mistyped, they should be:
about:internets
about:histograms
about: plugins (should be no gap between : and p - but since the forum it makes it into a smiley I have to write it with a gap)
The first one is surreal
I remember something like that as desktop background for Windoze in the early 90s - the Chrome version is slicker though.
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achilles
Most (including me) are finding it a lot faster. Whether it will be once boring stuff like proper security has been applied remains to be seen.
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I like how everyone is loving the minimalistic interface!
What is that about?
We no longer have windows 3.1
We have multiple core processors, large amounts of RAM, PCI-E etc. then someone creates an application so basic... it is going backwards. Apparently "about: %" crashes the browser (and there are already many more bugs already) being beta is irrelevant for the example I shown you. In development terms you start off as alpha, have a private BETA, followed by a public beta, then full release... so didn't no one wiht PhDs at Google realised this simple fault?
Lets be honest guys and gals... if this wasn't from Google, we would laugh at it.
It is no different then having the latest graphic card on the commercial pc market and playing doom or something on it.
My PC I am using by no means is top of the range. It isn't a dual core or quad core, has integrated graphics and vista lol... and FF3 with several windows open and numerous tabs on each works great and hasn't crashed once.... even with other applications open.
So I repeat this browser is going backwards. Google always had simple webpages due to cutting down on bandwidth (a few kbs make a lot of difference with their traffic) but when you have it as a downloaded application being very basic is just pathetic IMO!
Maybe I will point Chrome browsers on my websites to one of the crash pages and maybe everyone should do the same lol
What is that about?
We no longer have windows 3.1
We have multiple core processors, large amounts of RAM, PCI-E etc. then someone creates an application so basic... it is going backwards. Apparently "about: %" crashes the browser (and there are already many more bugs already) being beta is irrelevant for the example I shown you. In development terms you start off as alpha, have a private BETA, followed by a public beta, then full release... so didn't no one wiht PhDs at Google realised this simple fault?
Lets be honest guys and gals... if this wasn't from Google, we would laugh at it.
It is no different then having the latest graphic card on the commercial pc market and playing doom or something on it.
My PC I am using by no means is top of the range. It isn't a dual core or quad core, has integrated graphics and vista lol... and FF3 with several windows open and numerous tabs on each works great and hasn't crashed once.... even with other applications open.
So I repeat this browser is going backwards. Google always had simple webpages due to cutting down on bandwidth (a few kbs make a lot of difference with their traffic) but when you have it as a downloaded application being very basic is just pathetic IMO!
Maybe I will point Chrome browsers on my websites to one of the crash pages and maybe everyone should do the same lol
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Its not written in Java, it does the html rendering using webkit which is used by safari (written in c++) and the wrapper code and javascript engine is also written in c++
Now they've removed that awful license restriction we are good to go. Zdnet has published some performance stats and on javascript itensive sites its 8 times faster than IE7!
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PayVector
I totally disagree with this
Because of the increase in processor power and computer power programmers have gotten used to be sloppy. They garbage collectors to pick up lose memory they have not closed properly. They have bloated code because they know they have the extra resources, and who cares if that competes with another program as we now have bags of free memory.
Our online application is AJAX intensive. The difference between the render times from Microsoft now through to Chrome are staggering with Explorer being by far the slowest and Chrome the quickest by some way over the new version of Firefox.
Rendering a page may seem a trivial thing but for our users some which spend a lot of their business day in our management console, every split second saved adds up over a day.
With more and more companies moving towards having their website as their platform server instead of shipping software in boxes or via downloads something like Chrome was needed. It has some way to go yet but it is a step in the right direction.
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Sort of agree with you, sort of don't. I've recently changed to Firefox solely because of the developer and SEO tools that exist as addons. They make my job easier. But, before that I used to use Opera. And Chrome reminds me very much of Opera. I'm a very heavy web user so any browser that can speed up the web for me with quicker rendering etc gets my vote.
My hunch? A percentage of the open source, developer and add-on making crowd will start making stuff for Chrome, so sooner or later some of the functionality of those great addons will be available with chrome. And also Google will build it's core services into the chrome UI in such a way as to make it easier to browse the web. I reckon 6 months to a year, and by then, if it's still as zippy compared to other browsers as it is now, then I'll almost certainly start using it as my main browser.
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webworxindia
This one is very disappointing for me as I thought that Google must had built it from scratch.
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Quizarea
Secuity flaw in chrome might be useful to someone not me as i use ie8
http://www.buzzya.com/2008/09/03/serious-security-flaw-in-google-chrome/
http://www.buzzya.com/2008/09/03/serious-security-flaw-in-google-chrome/
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I spend over 50% of my "computer time" at either a dos prompt or a linux shell, AFAIC you can keep all your slow buggy bloatware graphical gui cr@p
A fast, clean, simple (and stable - remember this is only a beta) browser is exactly whats needed, especially now FF has turned to junkware.
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Chris@Crane
sorry, mistyped, they should be:
about:internets
about:histograms
about: plugins (should be no gap between : and p - but since the forum it makes it into a smiley I have to write it with a gap)
The first one is surreal
ahhh ok! all I get for about:internets is 'The Tubes are Clogged!' as the tab title... is there supposed to be more?
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Yes win 3.1 was a shell for DOS however I also spend a lot of time in linux shell too (not DOS any longer)I spend over 50% of my "computer time" at either a dos prompt or a linux shell, AFAIC you can keep all your slow buggy bloatware graphical gui cr@p
A fast, clean, simple (and stable - remember this is only a beta) browser is exactly whats needed, especially now FF has turned to junkware.
I don't know you use Google Chrome in linux shell.. CLI stylee.. it isn't even out as GUI on linux yet
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