Google Chrome

[Tom_1569]

You don't have to have all the crap at the top of IE7 or Firefox. It is just that some people choose to have toolbars galore.
When I am cleaning their PC's, I simply go through and remove every toolbar.

Ok, its taken me all night to try and work out the difference and why crome looks so much neater. It doesnt have the very top bar saying the program name if that makes sense. Yeah I dont use toolbars, but im on mums comp at the momeny and she has google one, and some other crap in firefox. Crome just seems so simple.

 

[Arrow12]

im using it over firefox atm and like it very much. only downside is no plugins/extentsions in google chrome...

 

[danja]

Bit of a dig here, but some features of Chrome that are worth pointing out.

- It's fast, really fast, really faster than IE (not hard) and Firefox. Use it for a day and see.

- It's Google, and if you haven't noticed, they are good at pretty much everything they do, including Chrome. It's beauty is in its simplicity - the address bar isn't just an address bar, it's also a search box and a history viewer - yes other browsers have done this, but Chrome's one just works that much better, like it knows when you want each of these features, you rarely have to choose. Again, try it and you'll see.

- It's built on Webkit, which is one of the leading HTML renderers (how stuff looks in the window). It's miles ahead of Trident (IE) and is slightly ahead of Gecko (Firefox) in standards compliance.

- It's rock solid, because each tab is it's own process (getting a little geeky here) so if for any reason something in a tab causes the browser to crash (like happens frequently in IE) then only that tab will die, the rest of the browser lives on.

- New tabs give you a thumbnail view of your most popular history pages, so like much of the time when you're doing "regular" browsing to news sites, JC, your email, favourite porn site etc, they're right there just one click away. Just a small thing to make life easier.

- It's very schmick, smooth animations, elegant design - it's just very nice to use. I'm running it with Vista and it really looks the part.

The biggest (and pretty much only) downside I've found is that so far there is no plug-in support, though I don't doubt future versions will introduce them.

Suggest anyone who hasn't already to at least download it and give it a try, worse case scenario and you hate it, just delete it! Google Chrome - Download a new browser

I'm a professional web designer, so I think I'm at least a little qualified to yammer on about browsers

 

[stocky]

I'm a professional web designer, so I think I'm at least a little qualified to yammer on about browsers

ego much? everyone here uses web browsers everyday so it would make them just as qualified. think of them as profession web users. firefox ftw

 

[danja]

ego much? everyone here uses web browsers everyday so it would make them just as qualified. think of them as profession web users. firefox ftw

My point wasn't ego, it was that web designers notice things about how browsers operate that a lot of people don't, like how well they conform to W3C standards which most people aren't conscious of unless they design web sites.

It's like cars, most people just drive them, and so long as they move they're happy, but you might drive into a mechanic (professional) and he might listen to the engine ticking and say "you rocker arms need adjusting". You're not a bad driver/car owner because you didn't realise that, it's just that its the mechanic's job to know about that stuff.

As a "web mechanic", I'm saying I think Chrome is a very good browser worth looking at. If you prefer FF, then fine, it's a good browser too - especially if you use the plug-ins - but Chrome is still worth a look.

PS. You aren't a professional unless you get paid to do it, but if you get paid to surf the web, well, that would be nice!

 

[stocky]

i got the web developer toolbar in firefox, so it lets me know what websites are W3C/CSS/JavaScript complaint. useful tool.

im pretty much getting paid to surf the web today. last day at work so no point working hard haha

 

[danja]

i got the web developer toolbar in firefox, so it lets me know what websites are W3C/CSS/JavaScript complaint. useful tool.

It is a good toolbar, if you do any kind of web-work I'd also recommend Firebug - it's like X-ray vision into web pages:
Firebug - Web Development Evolved

While the website might be built to standards, it doesn't mean the browser will display it properly. IE is notorious (even version 8) for simply ignoring or misinterpreting how standards should be displayed. That's why a standards-compliant site might work perfectly in Firefox, but fail miserably in IE.

im pretty much getting paid to surf the web today. last day at work so no point working hard haha

Well you've got me there then

 

[ScoHar]

agree ^^

Yea I know very little about web design that stuff etc, I remember when we were getting our website made, it worked fine in firefox and very poorley in IE, turned out that the website company only used firefox to view websites so never picked these problems up before (yea I know, they reckon they've done thousands of sites)

 

[danja]

agree ^^

Yea I know very little about web design that stuff etc, I remember when we were getting our website made, it worked fine in firefox and very poorley in IE, turned out that the website company only used firefox to view websites so never picked these problems up before (yea I know, they reckon they've done thousands of sites)

A lot of web designers hate IE with a vengence, because it basically doubles our workload. We have to design a site once for most browsers (FF, Safari etc) then do the whole thing again just so it will work in IE.

Still, for a company being paid to do it that's pretty poor they didn't check it in IE, especially given it's still about 70% of users...

 

[greenfoam]

My point wasn't ego, it was that web designers notice things about how browsers operate that a lot of people don't, like how well they conform to W3C standards which most people aren't conscious of unless they design web sites.

It's like cars, most people just drive them, and so long as they move they're happy, but you might drive into a mechanic (professional) and he might listen to the engine ticking and say "you rocker arms need adjusting". You're not a bad driver/car owner because you didn't realise that, it's just that its the mechanic's job to know about that stuff.

As a "web mechanic", I'm saying I think Chrome is a very good browser worth looking at. If you prefer FF, then fine, it's a good browser too - especially if you use the plug-ins - but Chrome is still worth a look.

PS. You aren't a professional unless you get paid to do it, but if you get paid to surf the web, well, that would be nice!

But I think the point is heaaaaaaaaaaps of people have worked as a web designer at some stage, me included and a very fussy one at that. I don't find firefox to be all people have it cracked up to be, it' alot slower than it should be and is becomming slower and more bloated by the day like the rest of the web, it's all gone to crap . When I was doing it IE was allways the pain in the ass, well not for me since I only even used the official html of the day but alot of people were making pages with IE specific code that Microsoft had invented that wasn't official. I'm not sure if they are still up to those tricks. But even now if a page wont work pefectly and easily in a text browser like Lynx it's one big failure in my opinion