OMG i love how I have WAAAAAY more visible real estate in Chrome. way way way.... ok, <3 Chrome.
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OMG i love how I have WAAAAAY more visible real estate in Chrome. way way way.... ok, <3 Chrome.
also, it seems way faster than Firefox or IE.
Also, make sure you check out "Application Shortcuts"
goto http://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en-US/welcome.html# and click on that link on the left
I've just installed it a second time now, and I better understand it. The installation is in several phases:Quote:
Originally posted by karahd
I'm not sure what Rosuav did, but when I went to http://www.google.com/chrome and clicked the link to install, it opened immediately in an installer, I didn't have to save anything, first. Then when it was done downloading, it installed automatically, finally it opened the new Chrome.
All I did was click and it took 1 minute to do it all.
The download portion was a progress indicator as opposed to a "busy light", however the install was more a "busy light" than a progress indicator.
1) Download the half-meg installer. Very quick (unless you're on an appallingly slow connection).
2) "Initializing". No progress indicator.
3) "Downloading". Progress indicator as expected.
4) "Installing". No progress indicator.
Steps 2 and 4 massively dwarfed step 3, which is why I didn't even notice the time spent downloading.
I like the Developer Tools, Javascript Debugger, and the enhanced source that shows the CSS files seperately.
Considering you only have to click a link to have it download, install, I think the simplicity of the whole ordeal dwarfs the non-issue of progress indicators especially in light of the fact that progress indicators are by nature misleading.
Gecko, from my understanding of it, is tied into Firefox very tightly, to the point where it is very difficult to yank it out and build a separate browser around it. Webkit, on the other hand, is designed from the ground up to be modular.Quote:
Originally posted by karahd
Why are they using Webkit? Webkit is not gecko, it is a derivative of KHTML (Safari uses Webkit since Webkit is Apple's project). Why wouldn't they use gecko? Ah, they seem to be using a marriage of Gecko and Webkit (still odd, in my opinion, but whatever).
Holy shit.Quote:
So much for don't be evil.Quote:
Users who downloaded the free browser yesterday were asked to agree to a clause that gave Google a "perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly, perform, publicly display and distribute" any information they typed into a website.
I <3 me some WebKit because it is derived from code from my very favourite open source project: http://www.kde.comQuote:
Originally posted by Grantref
Gecko, from my understanding of it, is tied into Firefox very tightly, to the point where it is very difficult to yank it out and build a separate browser around it. Webkit, on the other hand, is designed from the ground up to be modular.