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Holy crap! It is amazing how much this browser speeds dakka up. Like, really unbelievable. I am testing out the new browser at work for compatibility with my company website and thought I would pop on over and see. Pretty impressive, I must say.

Yeah thanks google, now I get to test on yet another browser Dakka is officially supported on firefox, opera, IE 6+ and safari and soon chrome too. Post in nuts and bolts if you come across anything buggy in chrome and I'll look into it in addition to my own testing.

Have fun making all your forum software hacks work on it

I like it though, it's fast, very fast. Shame i have to run it via VM Ware on the jolly old macintosh at the moment though.

I am leary about it (because I am an avowed Luddite... ) but I think I will give it a try after awhile. I still love firefox, and it has proven quite useful.

But if it can beat out firefox on being bad ass, then I will have to DL chrome.

go go google chrome

I for one won't be using it.

I tried, but realised i'd become accustomed to firefox and all of it's wonderful features.

i find faster fox i alot quicker on my comp.

Had some issues in Ebay with Chrome...uploading a pic for a sale and pulling up an auction...swapped back to Firefox

You know, this is just a stupid question thrown out there for everyone ot consider, but does anyone know about what kind of advertising data mining (alert, possible improper term!) this software might be capable of on your computer after you install it? From what I understand, and I could be wrong, Google mail reads your email and targets advertising on your gmail pages toward whatever it can find in your mail that you might want to buy. Is such targeted advertising part and parcel of Chrome as well? Or is that just me getting in touch with my inner conspiracy theorist?

Deffo faster than Firefox for me. Need to find an adblocker though...

Hey, everyone using Chrome may want to read the EULA.

It really, really sucks. I won't touch it with a regulation 10 foot clown pole.

Iorek wrote:Hey, everyone using Chrome may want to read the EULA.

It really, really sucks. I won't touch it with a regulation 10 foot clown pole.

As I'm happy with Firefox and won't be switching, may I ask what's in the EULA or the gist of it?

If you put this browser onto your PC at work you may want ot read that EULA. Here's a link you might find entertaining. That's even more draconian than I thought it might be. Actually reading the EULA is depressing. Where the heck are they trying to head with these shenanigans? If you ever thought Microsoft was bad with protectionism, this will have you rolling in the aisles.

Well copy/pasting from slashdot is this fun snippet:

"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license 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."

Chrome market share is estimated at 2.76% by one source already too - about twice the install base of opera by the same metrics.

Wow, I was going to look into it but then again, maybe I won't. That kind of crap isn't something I can let any company get away with.

uploading anything in chrome is taking forever. I am not sure if it's the programming or something else that is causing the slowdown.

I've gotta say I never found myself saying Firefox, Safari and IE are too dam' slow, the world needs a faster browser.

I production managed an installation disc for Netscape Navigator in 1995. There's history for you.

Google Chrome = Firefox with a facelift.

oni wrote:Google Chrome = Firefox with a facelift.

And an insidious EULA

Yea, that EULA is pretty bad...wonder if it would even hold up in court...regardless no need for me to use it...firefox works fine.

If Google wants me to use their browser they can give me a job.

I find Firefox 3 to be faster than Firefox 2.

I find Dakka crashes on Konqueror a bit, but I'm sure no one cares.

According to Chrome's EULA, anything you create with chrome belongs to google.

ph34r wrote:According to Chrome's EULA, anything you create with chrome belongs to google.

Not just that -- anything you upload, you warrant and indemnify that you have the legal rights to give it away to Google.

I asked about the EULA at work. Opinion is this is Beta and not the final EULA which is likely to be more permissive of users' rights.

All internet companies with any serious aspirations seem to go through this stage where they want to own everything by means of the EULA.

They've fixed the EULA.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/04/google_retracts_lousy_chrome_eula_terms/

Lots of other Chrome news...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/chrome_roundup/

Arctik_Firangi wrote:I find Dakka crashes on Konqueror a bit, but I'm sure no one cares.

on the contrary, I do a little bit of dakka testing in konqueror to make sure there is at least basic functionality and the javascript works properly. Submit detailed bug reports to nuts and bolts (the URL, the action and the crash result) along with your specific version, and if I can replicate it and it is not a browser bug then I'll fix it. I know there is a glitch with displaying the iframe ad in konqueror but there are too few users for me to bother fixing that one as it is mostly browser related.

I develop dakka on kubuntu, so linux is actually the environment that is most heavily tested.

Heh. I only run kubuntu for my audio and service work... it was last week sometime I think. Crashed out of app when I logged in, but I never use internet on linux for some reason.. It was probably just an unstable performance profile, unless there are any plugs associated with your ads... I know I haven't plugged Konq at all.

Id est, never mind. Will let you know if I ever try it again and it looks suss.

Yeah, I have embraced the fact that privacy is dead, so the EULA isn't all that for me.

The "new" GW site is pretty fast with it.

I have been editing twiki here at work and there are some odd display issues, but nothing too bad.

Somnicide wrote:Yeah, I have embraced the fact that privacy is dead, so the EULA isn't all that for me.

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I have a feeling that these kind of restrictive EULA's generally have never been properly tested in court. One day a big case will come up, probably on an issue like the "All your content are belong to us" clause. The defendant will be supported by the EFF and I think they will win.