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http://www.jonathanvolk.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/google-chrome-comic.jpg

LOL. That is the first (and I am sure many other) people thought of when they set up incognito mode. IE 8 has this feature as well. :D

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It’s going to be a good year.

It’s only stored on their servers if you let google do the autosuggesting. Nobody had problems with this in the FF searchbox.

It’s only stored on their servers if you let google do the autosuggesting. Nobody had problems with this in the FF searchbox.

Yeah; people are paranoid as heck. Even with all of this advertisement stuff. I don’t know about you, but if I have to see ads, I want to see ads that are relevant to me; find me deals, discounts, or awesome things I wouldn’t have found otherwise without the ad targeting. I think alot of people freak out about things they don’t understand.

i’m a little concerned about the ads as i stated earlier. If you use the google website you see the difference between the sponsored and indexed links but with the auto suggest the difference isn’t marked. After a while chome users could be clicking only on the sponsored links as they come first? Are the sponsored links even added to the auto suggest? But the same can happen if you use the Yahoo or MS auto suggest service.
This is one of the reasons i still use the website instead of relying on the auto suggest.

I haven’t really noticed any speed boost when loading pages, compared to Mozilla Firefox.
The JS is definitely faster, but the overall page load speed seems to be even.

Using Chrome right now, and I must say, it is excellent!
I really like the slim top bar, much less cluttered than most browsers. As well as this, there’s a great firebug-like tool built in, with memory profiling too.
A ‘must-have’ for any developer.

I have noticed a few minor issues, but for a first release, it’s excellent!

Chrome is already beating Opera in site stats that I have access to (both have very low numbers compared to beasts like IE 6 and 7, however). Maybe it’ll stay that way. Opera took a beating on the stock exchange immediately after Chrome was released. The reason is that the “market” always priced in a speculative bought-by-Google premium on the stock. That premium, and more, is truly gone now and the browser war arguably has it’s first victim; Opera will, as a result, become an increasingly rare cult on the Internet. The “market” put a big thumbs down on the future prospects of Opera to gain traction and make money.

There are people who see a bigger picture than the start of a browser war. Technologies as AIR/Flex and Silverlight could be a danger for all browsers because they deliver the sites in a fast and glossy package. Chrome having the V8 js compiler and the ability to have a almost-no-chrome window are the give-aways. The FF people claim new js engine is faster and you know they have prism as the almost-no-chrome solution.

All of this reminds me of Michael Robertson attempt integrating a webbased office packet in the OS. So i think there are two groups battling it out: the ones that want to integrate the web into the OS and the ones that want the browser to become the OS.

Agree. It obviously clear, and it has been for a long time, that Google goes for the grand prize here: the web “platform.” But for Opera this remains the browser bridging services and devices. Opera has tried to get with this program by implementing mail and torrents etc. in the browser itself to make it do everything that most people do on the web. The result, frankly, speaks for itself. Opera’s founders, and majority shareholders, claim to have a unique visionary plan and that Google aquisition cash never entered their spreadsheets. This is probably accurate. But the futuristic vision thing? I just can’t see it.

Starting with Flash and moving on, the RIA (there’s an oldie) trend has of course had the same goal; to become a de facto standard that === the internet. They all claim to make eveything so much richer (hence the name) for users and developers that tool up and buy into the next big thing. The best comment I have seen on all these efforts is that they will certainly make some people richer.

It’s welcome, at least, that those seeking a slice of this dominance now recognize that a brand new language, compiler and runtime may just dampen enthusiasm a little.

Check this one out:

EDIT: changed my mind after closer inspection, perhaps not appropriate for all ages and a little controversial.

Chrome is already beating Opera in site stats that I have access to (both have very low numbers compared to beasts like IE 6 and 7, however). Maybe it’ll stay that way. Opera took a beating on the stock exchange immediately after Chrome was released. The reason is that the “market” always priced in a speculative bought-by-Google premium on the stock. That premium, and more, is truly gone now and the browser war arguably has it’s first victim; Opera will, as a result, become an increasingly rare cult on the Internet. The “market” put a big thumbs down on the future prospects of Opera to gain traction and make money.

Opera’s money doesn’t come from having a large desktop browser market share, it comes from embedding its browser in moble platforms. Opera for mobile has a tiny profile and a lot of features directed at very small screens, their business model is directed at that segment of the market. Whether or not this changes becuase of the iPhone/Android remains to be seen.

I use Opera as my primary browser; the UI is sophisticated where it needs to be and simple in all the places that it counts. It’s not everyone’s browser, but neither is OmniWeb or even Firefox.

i’m a little concerned about the ads as i stated earlier. If you use the google website you see the difference between the sponsored and indexed links but with the auto suggest the difference isn’t marked. After a while chome users could be clicking only on the sponsored links as they come first? Are the sponsored links even added to the auto suggest? But the same can happen if you use the Yahoo or MS auto suggest service.
This is one of the reasons i still use the website instead of relying on the auto suggest.

Note that you can turn off autosuggest in the preferences panel if you don’t want to see it. Still, all the signs point to Google never recieving any of your usage behavior. Chrome will, on occasion, download packages from Google with malware site lists or language packs, but that’s a download, not an upload.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/

How can you guys be excited about this? We’ve been complaining for years about having too many damn browsers to deal with. They may be standards compliant, but that doesn’t mean everything works the same on all browsers.

This is just more headaches if you ask me…

im a bit scared of using this just for the fact of the sketchy TOS they had up before about once the content is rendered in the browser they own it…. um yeah….no. and i think that they probably put something in to help them index pages. i know you can submitting data to them off but i dont know if it actually does kill the feed of data to google. i can see them using the millions of computers that will have this as an extension to their google bots to grab sites content. also i really dont need google seeing my bank website or my latest top-secret web development project…