Google Chrome For Mac
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I've been wanting to try out chrome as an OS. There's already some homebrews out there that allow you to boot it from a thumb drive on a netbook.
And yes, chrome browser is full of win.
And yes, chrome browser is full of win.
Isn't that a pokeymon?
Careful. This gets to be a habit, and then an addiction. Suddenly you can't go back to any other browser since you can't figure out why it's not searching for things when you type things in the address bar.
I'm never turning back. What I can't figure out is why no one did this sooner, I've been wanting to see this feature for years.
I agree with this; I switched back to Firefox for a little while because I wanted to try out a particular extension and I spent the whole time typing searches into the address bar
is there any way to toggle what the address bar searches for? ie, set to look for images?
No, but I think its a good idea!
Yes. Here's the mac way:
Chrome > Preferences > Default Search, click Manage > Click the + to add images.google.com > select it and click Make Default
Although, it would be nice if there was a drop down somewhere in the main screen. You'll have to switch this every time if you want to do a regular search.
Oh snap I never thought of that. cool.
I love that in the list of search engines to use, "LMGTFY" is listed
yeah a dropdown like Firefox has is much better than having to go into preferences to set the search type.
Is it really worth it to change search preferences though? If I'm looking for an image of something, you type in whatever you're searching for into the search field, then click "image" once the results pull up. 2 clicks. If it's something I'm shopping for, "shopping" will usually be one of the top 2 results, and the same with informational things (usually wikipedia.org). <shrug>
I am very impressed with the speed so far. I love firefox but it was so damn slow.
hey when you're looking for pr0n you want as few clicks as possible.
If you change to OpenDNS's public DNS all browsers will work that way plus it has malicious website filtering and other features. Most test show it to be the fastest free public DNS service even beating Google's new public DNS service.I agree with this; I switched back to Firefox for a little while because I wanted to try out a particular extension and I spent the whole time typing searches into the address bar
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I use OpenDNS but it's not the same, speed-wise. It still attempts the lookup before performing the search.
I was doing a little testing of OpenDNS vs. Google and my seat-of-the-pants impression was that Google was very slightly faster. Nothing clinical about that, just felt a little quicker.
I was doing a little testing of OpenDNS vs. Google and my seat-of-the-pants impression was that Google was very slightly faster. Nothing clinical about that, just felt a little quicker.
Every suite of test sites I've seen has shown OpenDNS is faster sometimes by a large margin:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356707,00.asp
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356707,00.asp
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firefox also has the little icon in the google taskbar, so you can type what you are looking for, then click on the icon which for the search type you want.
Google Chrome - security and true content blocking FAIL - it has no block API, you can only hide elements with plug-ins. Google is too greedy to implement that since its a primary revenue source for them. Firefox still wins for this reason and that websites are optimized primarily for IE, FF, and maybe Safari at best.
http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1676&start=15
http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1676&start=15
Firefox still has a functional Autofill, way more extensions (no EXIF viewer for Chrome, among others), and is color-managed.
after a brief dalliance w/ Chrome, i think i'm back to FF.
after a brief dalliance w/ Chrome, i think i'm back to FF.
I went back to Safari.
^^^ that is what really hurts me. but i cant go back to FF chrome is just so smooth for me
Just went back to FF. Chrome is great but needs a few changes, then I will go back.
ive been using Chrome ever since it came out. love it. FF and IE are so bloated with so much crap. Chrome is simple, super fast and a lot more stable
dont know how Chrome stacks up now, but it was way faster then FF, Opera and IE...
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49301219,00.htm
dont know how Chrome stacks up now, but it was way faster then FF, Opera and IE...
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49301219,00.htm
what didnt you like about it
Yep, I went back to FF also.
Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on a MBP.
The tab browsing bothered me and it didn't seem any faster than FF.
Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on a MBP.
The tab browsing bothered me and it didn't seem any faster than FF.
I notice only a marginal difference in speed (windows). The one thing Chrome does that FF doesn't is having separate threading for each tab. So if something crashes in one tab, only that one is affected, the rest of your tabs/windows won't crash & close.
But more importantly, I like the integrated search feature in the address bar. I can't believe no one tried it sooner.
Yeah, the integrated search is one of the reasons a friend is using it. I have the google toolbar and that works fine.
In FF, I have folders in my toolbar with "open all in tabs". Does Chrome do this?
In FF, I have folders in my toolbar with "open all in tabs". Does Chrome do this?
yeah, having no exif viewer is a pain, as is finding the other properties of a image.