The New Chrome Browser Beta

[DigiQ8]

It's fast.

More Info

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oarMXGq3gI&feature=player_embedded

 

[Vegeta897]

I've already been using the beta release for months, and I've encouraged everyone else who I've told to use Chrome to use it also.

 

[Dinnesch]

Gotta say I like this version. Trying it out a few more days, might finally say goodbye to good ol' firefox.

 

[Qonfused]

I've already been using the beta release for months, and I've encouraged everyone else who I've told to use Chrome to use it also.

Goddamn.

 

[Krynn72]

I've encouraged everyone else who I've told to use Chrome to use it also.

NOT ME! AM I NOT GOOD ENOUGH OR SOMETHING?!

 

[Vegeta897]

I didn't tell either of you to use Chrome.

I'm saying, that once I found that you can use the beta channel of Chrome and get be automatically updated with the latest beta (instead of the latest stable) then from that point on whenever I got someone to use chrome, I told them to get the beta channel.

If you're feeling risky you can even use the dev channel, which is less stable than the beta. http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=devchannel

 

[xcellerate]

i know people like ad-block in firefox, but chrome just starts so fast. Even if I click firefox first, chrome will still load my homepage (google) before firefox even opens.

 

[kineaesth]

i know people like ad-block in firefox, but chrome just starts so fast. Even if I click firefox first, chrome will still load my homepage (google) before firefox even opens.

Plus Chrome now has extensions, and has a rather excellent ad-blocker available.

 

[Vegeta897]

There are no reasons left to stay with FF. Chrome starts you with a minimal space-saving and simple UI (yet brimming with cool functions behind the scenes, such as the omnibar, "paste and go", "paste and search", highlighting something on a page and right clicking to search it in google... the list goes on) and if there's any plugin you liked in firefox, there's probably an extension for it.

 

[DigiQ8]

There are no reasons left to stay with FF. Chrome starts you with a minimal space-saving and simple UI (yet brimming with cool functions behind the scenes, such as the omnibar, "paste and go", "paste and search", highlighting something on a page and right clicking to search it in google... the list goes on) and if there's any plugin you liked in firefox, there's probably an extension for it.

True.

I switched to Chrome earlier this year, I remember the old beta used to be buggy as hell (for me at least) and I couldn't leave my FF extensions <3.


But now I can say Chrome is the best browser ever.

 

[Krynn72]

There are no reasons left to stay with FF. Chrome starts you with a minimal space-saving and simple UI (yet brimming with cool functions behind the scenes, such as the omnibar, "paste and go", "paste and search", highlighting something on a page and right clicking to search it in google... the list goes on) and if there's any plugin you liked in firefox, there's probably an extension for it.

The only reason I still use FF sometimes is the flashget extension. Is there something like that for chrome yet?

 

[Vegeta897]

Hmmm uhhh I'll get back to you on that. I thought that was a tool to download flash files but apparently not, so I can't really find an equivalent if I don't really know what FlashGet is.

You can search here https://chrome.google.com/extensions

 

[Krynn72]

Nice. Just installed a couple of extensions that should be cool. Flashgot (I mixed up the name, the plugin is called flashgot, the download manager is flashget) works directly with a couple of download managers. So say you have 20 rapidshare links or something, you highlight them and rightclick > Flashgot Links. Then it starts your download manager and queues up each link. Flashget watches your clipboard so its not completely necessary, but that method is finicky and not very reliable.

 

[DigiQ8]

Nice. Just installed a couple of extensions that should be cool. Flashgot (I mixed up the name, the plugin is called flashgot, the download manager is flashget) works directly with a couple of download managers. So say you have 20 rapidshare links or something, you highlight them and rightclick > Flashgot Links. Then it starts your download manager and queues up each link. Flashget watches your clipboard so its not completely necessary, but that method is finicky and not very reliable.

Try this one, but I think you need to get JDownloder too so you can use it.

 

[Vegeta897]

JDownloader already grabs links from your clipboard automatically when it's running, so I don't really get what the extension does, other than being able to add the links through a right click rather than just copying them. If that extension launched JDownloader, it'd be nice.

 

[DigiQ8]

JDownloader already grabs links from your clipboard automatically when it's running, so I don't really get what the extension does, other than being able to add the links through a right click rather than just copying them. If that extension launched JDownloader, it'd be nice.

It doesn't

 

[Krynn72]

JDownloader already grabs links from your clipboard automatically when it's running, so I don't really get what the extension does, other than being able to add the links through a right click rather than just copying them. If that extension launched JDownloader, it'd be nice.

The extension ignores the clipboard altogether, which I've found to be a lot more reliable. For instance, if I were to just copy links without my download manager running, nothing would happen. Then I have to start the manager, but theres no way to paste the links into the manager as a queue, at least not that I've found. But I can't just copy the links again, because it won't notice a change, so I have to copy something else, then re-copy the links, and then sometimes it will work.

With flashgot you just right click the links and flashgot them, it will start your download manager if its not already running, start the queue and then its done. A lot simpler and much more reliable.


EDIT: Oh, you were talking about Digi's link. I guess its the same deal.

 

[Vegeta897]

You can paste anything that's already in the clipboard into JDownloader, but whatev.

 

[Krynn72]

Havent tried jdownloader yet. Will try when i get home.

Also, I ran into a huge bug with the beta. Watching the daily show on their site results in it playing multiple times offset in the background. Like having it open in a couple tabs all playing at the same time, only theres just one tab. See if it happens for you guys.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-may-5-2010-jon-meacham

 

[Vegeta897]

Er woah, that's really weird. Like some kind of delay effect is on the whole video. It didn't happen on the Iron Man 2 ad that was on right before it though. Never heard anything like that.

 

[arch5]

I'm still on Chrome 4. Too lazy to upgrade to beta, I also prefer stable versions.

 

[xcellerate]

I have chrome set to include me in betas, but I had no idea I was even running a beta until yesterday. So at least in my experience, it's been pretty stable.

 

[Vegeta897]

I'm still on Chrome 4. Too lazy to upgrade to beta, I also prefer stable versions.

Beta is quite stable, really. Dev is what's not guaranteed stable. With beta you'll have stability but the features they're trying out might not be complete or working fully.

 

[Krynn72]

idunno, the beta is being a little odd for me. Like anytime I am on youtube and switch to a different video, my secondary monitor gets this weird thing where the screen... breaks I guess, and its like a part of the screen appears an inch above where it should be, overlapping what is normally there. It does does it in a weird flicker thing that only lasts a second or so, but it happens every time I switch videos, whether I am using chrome on that monitor or not.

Also the dailyshow/colbert report video player thing.