Chrome!

[Miez]

Firefox is so damnably heavy...I'm running 6 tabs at the moment, and I've got 105Mb of memory usage.

Still, I'll wait a bit before trying out Chrome.

I read somewhere that Chrome is a fast browser, but the multithreading means it uses bucketloads of memory...

[scotch]

I have been making a reasonably complicated web program the past two days, and Chrome rendered it with only one glitch, pretty good going compared to anything else (though the SVG features lag behind Opera and FF3 slightly). But then I write to standards as much as I can and Webkit is a pretty good engine. I suppose this means we don't really have to test on Safari anymore? I hate that Windows port.

IE took 8 hours of hacking involving scouring for posts about glitches on usenet and it still looks crappy, but that's hardly notable.

[dasjoe]

The browser I change to someday, won't steal focus from address bar if page suddenly becomes fully loaded.

Press Escape before starting to type.

[Khris]

Or F6.

[SSH]

By the way, Google have fixed their EULA to be less Nazi, and it applies retrospectively to all of us who didn't read it properly and clicked OK.

[InCreator]

The browser I change to someday, won't steal focus from address bar if page suddenly becomes fully loaded.
Like, when I start Firefox, google.com starts to load. I don't want google, I start typing address. Blam! Google is loaded. And half of my typing goes to nothing since focus is lost from address bar.

Minor thing? Fall for this 20 times per day.

Chrome can't do this.
I wait.

Why don't you use a blank start page?

Because other 20 times I want to google fast.
Escape works! Thanks, dasjoe!

But emphasis was on word "steal". Browser, my slave, shalt not decide which field I want to edit at any moment.
If master clicked on "address" and started typing, browser must OBEY!

[TerranRich]

By the way, Google have fixed their EULA to be less Nazi, and it applies retrospectively to all of us who didn't read it properly and clicked OK.

"Be less Nazi"? They already explained that it was a copy & paste error. It wasn't intentional at all. Sometimes people read too much into things.

[SSH]

Because other 20 times I want to google fast.

Chrome automatically googles if it doesn't match a site...

[OneDollar]

By the way, Google have fixed their EULA to be less Nazi, and it applies retrospectively to all of us who didn't read it properly and clicked OK.

I installed Chrome today to try it out and I don't remember having to agree to anything... maybe I've just got so used to clicking through licence agreements. Some day a software developer will take my house because I clicked 'I agree' to something.

Anyway, played with it a bit and wasn't that impressed. Felt rather Firefox-like. There were two things I did like though, the incognito mode (that doesn't write to the history and deletes cookies and temporary files when you close it) and the way you can resize some text input boxes. Guess I'll come back when its out of beta.

[Makeout Patrol]

By the way, Google have fixed their EULA to be less Nazi, and it applies retrospectively to all of us who didn't read it properly and clicked OK.

I installed Chrome today to try it out and I don't remember having to agree to anything... maybe I've just got so used to clicking through licence agreements. Some day a software developer will take my house because I clicked 'I agree' to something.

EULAs are a strange breed; supposedly, they are legal contracts, but in effect, there's no room for negotiation and, as everybody is aware, they are almost never read. EULAs have a history of being pretty much worthless when a dispute makes it to court.

[Misj']

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/index.cfm?email&NewsID=11289

But appart from that: Opera does what I want from a browser, so I'll stick to Opera as my standard...and Firefox with the Zotero plugin because endnote costs money and isn't compatible with OpenOffice.

To me there's no use for another browser at the moment.

And I've never been partial to the Google idea of having 'your computer online' (for example: I have a local mail-client and log in via the web only if I have to), and Chrome is one step towards that idea. And it's not that a good idea, but that's just my personal opinion.

[Ultra Magnus]

Anyway, played with it a bit and wasn't that impressed. Felt rather Firefox-like.

http://gizmodo.com/5044958/dr-frankensteins-browser-the-strangely-obvious-ancestry-of-google-chrome

There were two things I did like though, the incognito mode (that doesn't write to the history and deletes cookies and temporary files when you close it) and the way you can resize some text input boxes.

http://lifehacker.com/5044518/enable-chromes-best-features-in-firefox

also

http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/get-safaris-best-features-in-firefox-268691.php

Of course, if you install all of them it'll slow you right down.
But that's what I like about add-ons, they're completely customizable.

Chrome may be flashy, but there's a lot of stuff there that I won't use, and a lot of stuff I do use is missing.
The only add-on I've kept after trying all of those from the above two pages is the Download Statusbar, and I already had that months ago.

Speaking of add-ons, does anyone know of one that un-blurs enlarged pictures in FireFox 3?
That's the only thing stopping me from upgrading right now.

[OneDollar]

Heh, thanks for those links. Might go and install some more add-ons into Firefox in a bit then.

Speaking of add-ons, does anyone know of one that un-blurs enlarged pictures in FireFox 3?
That's the only thing stopping me from upgrading right now.

Nope and its really annoying.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

No, and they don't plan to change it, either, since it only seems to really bother pixel art people.  Firefox 2 works just fine for me.