Anybody tried Chrome??

[toypusher]

Has anybody out there tried Google's new browser (beta) called Chrome?? There was an article about it in this mornings paper. Also learned that they have an 'On-line' office suite called Google Docs too.

Chrome (Web Browser) http://tinyurl.com/56b2nf

Google Docs (Office): http://tinyurl.com/5onz28

Anybody tried/use either one of these??

[Nitetimes]

Not yet but I think I'll give it a try. BTW - Have you??

[Nitetimes]

Well as much as I hate to say it this thing is much faster than Firefox. On this site at least. Gotta try some of my other ones and see what happens.

[Nitetimes]

One thing I don't like already is it does the same thing IE does if you use frames on a page. It takes away the visible frame leaving you with just your thumbnails and a flat page.
Things still look better in FF.
Look at this page with FF and with Chrome and you will see what I mean.
Example page

[Nitetimes]

Now I'm bummed!!!! It somehow manages to disable clicking the scroll button on my mouse and getting that funky little thing that just lets me move the mouse to scroll whichever way I want. Now I actually have to spin the scroll button.

[toypusher]

Not yet but I think I'll give it a try. BTW - Have you??

Nope, just wondering if anyone else had!!

[wridley]

One thing to remember about Chrome. It is still in BETA stage. That means that they are still testing and things that do not work now will be worked on. There have been a fair number of things that I have found that do not work proper but that is expected.

The problem with most software these days is that they release a BETA copy to the public and then tweak it after rather than doing their own proper testing in house. Look at all the updates that we need to do on almost any software you install these days. While public beta testing has its place it really should not be released to everyone but a controlled group for proper feedback.

Just my $0.02 worth

[Nitetimes]

Not yet but I think I'll give it a try. BTW - Have you??

Nope, just wondering if anyone else had!!

See how ya are!

[Joanne]

One thing to remember about Chrome. It is still in BETA stage. That means that they are still testing and things that do not work now will be worked on. There have been a fair number of things that I have found that do not work proper but that is expected.

The problem with most software these days is that they release a BETA copy to the public and then tweak it after rather than doing their own proper testing in house. Look at all the updates that we need to do on almost any software you install these days. While public beta testing has its place it really should not be released to everyone but a controlled group for proper feedback.

Just my $0.02 worth

AMEN!!! Pitch it over the fence and let the users debug it for you.

I make my staff test BEFORE they move software to production.

Joanne

[tonyj]

Downloaded it and tried it out shortly last night. I had no problems. Easy to use. I didn't see the big speed increase that was talked about. But so far, no complaints or praises.

[Dale M.]

t's still kind of for the techno adventurous.... It's a Beta release, and not quite polished... IN fact I crashed it a couple of times. Best thing is if it crashes in a tab, it does not take other tabs with it.... But you can crash it if you try to open all your bookmarks (300+) into tabs at one time....

Oh well......

[campadk]

Certainly is faster for certain navigation.

A BIG problem for many of us is that it HAS to support Roboform or it is useless. There are a lot of people out there that reply on Roboform to manage autofilling in login forms etc.

Chrome is just the first phase... eventually it will be the google o/s.. should be interesting!

[KDOG]

I'm on it right now, works nice. It IS a beta remember, the final version might have fixed for those minor issues...

[Wimperdink]

AMEN!!! Pitch it over the fence and let the users debug it for you.

I make my staff test BEFORE they move software to production.

Joanne

Lets not forget this is open source software. Its built by people for people the same way firefox is. This is also free software. Not something being *sold to people as polished, finished, supposed to be bug free software.

*I use the term sold very loosely here. I know about the ad's etc etc

[Gaelen]

I have tried/used GoogleDocs.
Not impressed...I'd rather use OpenOffice and share via email.
GoogleDocs is painfully slow, even on a fast machine.
Its single bright point is that users on PCs, Macs and Linux boxes can all work in the same format on the same doc and there are no risks of doc corruption when using email to 'share' between users on different format operating systems.

BTW, open source or not, I'm with Joanne on this one. Open source shouldn't be an excuse to not do proper beta testing--you just set up a selected usergroup to do the beta testing before you do your general release of v1.0. Throwing a beta version out into the world is just a lowering of expectations for what a truly finished and marketable product should be...IMNSHO.

BTW, I test and 'break' software as part of what I do for a living. And going with even a v1.0 product can be fraught with surprises...but to mass-release a beta version? No way, that's just a half-@ssed excuse for what used to pass as software development.