Comments on: Could this be the Firefox-killer?

By: Linktime 1.0 » The Crazy Australian

Linktime 1.0 » The Crazy Australian — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:43:33 +0000

[...] has undergone a reawakening this week. Posts are coming hard, fast, and quality. (He even broke the Chrome story before I [...]

By: hayesy

hayesy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:24:20 +0000

most new computers, in your area. My computer, only a couple of years old, has 240mb RAM, less than the memory demands of Chrome (and a 1.4gHz single-core processor). Public schools, poorer families, struggling companies – they could well have worse computers still.

Given the bloatware that is firefox, not to mention IE, and the usual simplicity of google, I was really hoping for a lightweight product. It’s already an issue.

By: VK

VK — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:08:21 +0000

with most computers having at least 2gb of ram these days i dont think it will become an issue

By: hayesy

hayesy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:06:14 +0000

'Barth attributed the heftier memory appetite of Chrome to its multi-process tabbing model, where each tab is actually a separate iteration of the browser. "It's use of that model, which, according to Google, helps isolate failures and protect complex Web applications, [that] means that it will always use more memory than Firefox, IE 7 and similar, single-process browsers," he said.' from here. That will count against it. I wonder if they will release a version without this 'feature'?

By: hayesy

hayesy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:55:38 +0000

VK – haha sorry! I didn’t realise you were actually blogging again! I haven’t been reading. But now I am. Looking good, btw.
Luckily no-one reads your blog (Jokes!)

I’ll only miss toolbar links, I think. But yeah, will be interesting to see how add-ons go. I hope we get some creative ones.

It would be cool to have a Thunderbird-esque gmail app build in… or would it?

By: Installing Google Chrome behind a proxy » The Crazy Australian

Installing Google Chrome behind a proxy » The Crazy Australian — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:50:27 +0000

[...] your Google Chrome installer never gets past the ‘Connecting to the Internet…’ stage and you access [...]

By: VK

VK — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:32:09 +0000

yea theres a few features missing that wont convert me over yet such as toolbar links, roboform2go support and a portable version so i can take it on the move.

By: joelpj

joelpj — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:21:10 +0000

Its pretty awesome.

We’ll have to wait until the add-ons roll out to know for sure.

Re: privacy – I think that too sometimes!

By: VK

VK — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:19:56 +0000

“Tell your grandkids: you heard it here first.” pfffft your like 2 days behind if your readers are reading my blog as well muahahah