Whitechapel - Google Chrome is out Tue, 21 May 2013 02:46:00 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80753#Comment_80753 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80753#Comment_80753 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:09:43 -0700 LudwigTheurer
For me, it's only missing: Flash Blocker and Skins to be use-able (don't know how long I'll stand the blue look..)

Oh, it has a built in spellchecker, meaning we will understand 30% more of the internets?

http://www.google.com/chrome

(warning: 400k is a lie, it's self downloader.) ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80761#Comment_80761 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80761#Comment_80761 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:18:41 -0700 jesseraub Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80766#Comment_80766 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80766#Comment_80766 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:22:55 -0700 LudwigTheurer - No notes like opera does. (Can't live without me notes!!)
- Doesn't seem to have option to organize bookmarks.
- Closes if you close all tabs! it messes with my closing-tab-compulsion..

Also, it doesn't have a search box, gotta get used to type stuff in the address bar.

But! upside:
Incognito Windows .. windows without history/cache/cookies .. for paranoids and everyone else (porn users.) ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80768#Comment_80768 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80768#Comment_80768 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:38:45 -0700 bschory
Critiquing a BETA always seems a little futile to me, so I'll keep it short. All my critiques seem to center around the tab view page thing that it defaults to as a home page (probably just me being stuck in my ways, but I have my homepage set to what it is for a reason). The option to change this is there, but does not seem to take when you open a new tab. May be a bug, may be a feature. Hoping it's the former.


- Doesn't seem to have option to organize bookmarks.


Edit: I actually can kinda get it to work, and it's a little more intuitive than Firefox is after the fact of adding the bookmark.

Edit 2: Missed the option. Nothing to see here ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80770#Comment_80770 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80770#Comment_80770 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:40:14 -0700 warrenellis Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80774#Comment_80774 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80774#Comment_80774 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:49:07 -0700 LudwigTheurer Screenshots of WC and warrenellis.com in Chrome, plz?
here
here2 ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80775#Comment_80775 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80775#Comment_80775 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:53:12 -0700 bschory

warrenellis.com in Chrome ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80776#Comment_80776 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80776#Comment_80776 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:56:17 -0700 Jamie Coville
And yes, I went to the Pirate Bay but they only have a German version available. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80780#Comment_80780 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80780#Comment_80780 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:06:23 -0700 twitch_ramirez Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

seems to work fine; will take some time to become a fan. first use blush is - this is ok. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80781#Comment_80781 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80781#Comment_80781 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:09:15 -0700 CamMc Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80782#Comment_80782 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80782#Comment_80782 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:12:23 -0700 LudwigTheurer Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80786#Comment_80786 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80786#Comment_80786 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:43:55 -0700 aike Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80794#Comment_80794 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80794#Comment_80794 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:18:12 -0700 kaolin
But gods it's blazingfast.

Runs faster than the OS for new windows/etc. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80834#Comment_80834 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80834#Comment_80834 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:00:48 -0700 hmobius Paranoia ain't gonna subside until I see the buglists completely free of memleak bugs. Friendly comic or no, the design decision to make the end-user a garbage collector by giving us a screen showing us the resources each process is using isn't encouraging. It kind of indicates to me that it's targetting power users which is surprising. Similarly, I thought the comic had a misprint replacing the word threads with processes. But no. Still, I'm a happy managed code fan who doesnt want to have to deal with the pain (\cyber arse eels) that C \ C++ could inflict (and which I've no doubt the Chrome engineers have already felt), so I'm happy to be proven wrong if they can pull it off. Only trouble is that no code is bug free. I just hope for Chrome's sake that whatever bugs they don't spot and fix, they aren't exploitable or incapacitating. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80835#Comment_80835 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80835#Comment_80835 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:01:21 -0700 LudwigTheurer
But apparently there's no built-in system for add-ons, loading/unloading them..etc.. so that may be user-written (which takes a while to work out as a standard.) .. so expect patches for it .. or stand-alone modified versions. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80841#Comment_80841 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80841#Comment_80841 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:28:02 -0700 Ecksearoh these instructions. I'm having way too much fun geeking out on code forums over the rendering speed of this little baby, and what seems to be going on under the hood. I just need plugins, especially ubiquity (a command line for firefox) and weave (cloud storage and synching of your bookmarks). ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80842#Comment_80842 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80842#Comment_80842 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:30:10 -0700 Kosmopolit
I think I'll wait to see what the finished product looks like before making any final decisions. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80851#Comment_80851 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80851#Comment_80851 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:17:35 -0700 agentarsenic Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80873#Comment_80873 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80873#Comment_80873 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:15:16 -0700 fmiller Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80888#Comment_80888 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80888#Comment_80888 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:33:36 -0700 albill Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80917#Comment_80917 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80917#Comment_80917 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:27:55 -0700 hmobius Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80919#Comment_80919 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80919#Comment_80919 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:34:30 -0700 Paul Duffield Enough nice features to make me stick with it for now, but I predict I'll go back to firefox in a bit and search for some plug ins which emulate the new features XD ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80927#Comment_80927 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80927#Comment_80927 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:58:56 -0700 liquidcow
I have a spellchecker in my browser already, though I think that's maybe part of Mac OS. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80939#Comment_80939 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80939#Comment_80939 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:19:17 -0700 LudwigTheurer
But obviously, it's a beta. I expected worse! Very useable still. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80963#Comment_80963 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80963#Comment_80963 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:48:57 -0700 hmobius points out have pointed out a Chrome condition of service that effectively lets Google use any of your copyrighted material posted to the web via Chrome without paying you a cent.

Amusingly, the Chrome uninstaller asks, "was it something we said?".

Well, yes actually. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80979#Comment_80979 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=80979#Comment_80979 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:29:44 -0700 Billy Pilgrim Thanks for the heads up. I was just about to download the damned thing. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81009#Comment_81009 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81009#Comment_81009 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:51:00 -0700 LudwigTheurer Jesus christ, Google owns all my wankstain jokes.. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81012#Comment_81012 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81012#Comment_81012 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:02:31 -0700 thom_wong Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81013#Comment_81013 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81013#Comment_81013 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:10:56 -0700 Osmosis
Hmm - one more thing - my firewall tells me every so often that Google Installer is trying to dial out. I wonder why. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81014#Comment_81014 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81014#Comment_81014 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:13:55 -0700 bschory
That's a term of service for all of Google's self-created products, not just Chrome (even some of their acquired products, like Blogger, have something similar, but with some extra, very-slightly reassuring conditions on what their license to this stuff entails: http://www.blogger.com/terms.g Section 6). Just a warning for any of you who use Google products regularly and are concerned by section 11 of their Terms of Service/Chrome EULA. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81031#Comment_81031 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81031#Comment_81031 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:08:11 -0700 SilentObjector
Also the copyright clause has been taken down ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81035#Comment_81035 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81035#Comment_81035 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:14:49 -0700 bschory
Update: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-license-agreement/ ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81071#Comment_81071 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81071#Comment_81071 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:41:39 -0700 Wakefield
I used it all day today. I like how streamlined it is. Though if you're using all the Firefox apps, getting Chrome probably isn't a priority.

I like how Google's taking aim at MS, esp in releasing it right after IE 8. It's almost the antithesis of IE given how spartan it is. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81081#Comment_81081 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81081#Comment_81081 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:48:42 -0700 outlawpoet
there is one model for their continuing relationship with mozilla, the situations with GAIM and Google Talk. Google hired one of the primary developers of GAIM, and while he initially kept working on GAIM, they moved him to working on Google Talk. They continue to fund work on GAIM via indirect stuff like Summer of Code and so on, though.

I don't have details on how everything went down though. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81083#Comment_81083 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81083#Comment_81083 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:02:22 -0700 Pablo Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81117#Comment_81117 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81117#Comment_81117 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:43:41 -0700 JaredRules Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81120#Comment_81120 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81120#Comment_81120 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:51:18 -0700 Azmoooo Right click on the Omnibar and click Edit Search Engines
Click the Wikipedia entry and then click Edit. Change the keyword to something easy like wiki

Now when you want to search Wikipedia, just type in wiki [search query] in the Omnibar.
Bit of arseing about, but it does the job. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81122#Comment_81122 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81122#Comment_81122 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:08:45 -0700 JaredRules Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81125#Comment_81125 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81125#Comment_81125 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:22:55 -0700 James Puckett No Mac version = colossal fail.
Seriously. Why does the browser of the future only run on the OS of the dark ages?

Wonder how it'll affect the partnership between Mozilla and Google.

I don’t think that Chrome actually competes with the various Mozilla projects. Mozilla is busy producing software for the internet we already have. Chrome is a browser for a different sort of internet that’s still largely theoretical. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81136#Comment_81136 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81136#Comment_81136 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:15:52 -0700 Paul Duffield Because browsing the internet is a bit like exploring a cave? ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81140#Comment_81140 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81140#Comment_81140 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:25:07 -0700 LudwigTheurer Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81141#Comment_81141 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81141#Comment_81141 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:30:29 -0700 pi8you Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81142#Comment_81142 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81142#Comment_81142 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:45:06 -0700 hmobius
Apologies for the overreaction. 'Twas a paranoic mountain of a molehill.
A friend has the saner overview of why it says what it does and how it translates.

(But why - if they know people would read it - did Google not just release it with the sanitized EULA in the first place?)

@SageLudwig : Mac OS v1 - 1984. Windows v1.0 - 1985 ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81143#Comment_81143 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81143#Comment_81143 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:16:32 -0700 LudwigTheurer Any OS under the overexposure windows is would have the same issues. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81144#Comment_81144 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81144#Comment_81144 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:27:12 -0700 collindeplancy CNET reports. There are some news in this field? Some update or public statement by google? ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81151#Comment_81151 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81151#Comment_81151 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:36:54 -0700 hmobius Enlightenment v0.17 is still under development.

@collindeplancy : Wish they wouldn't call it Google's Omnibox. It's not as though they borrowed heavily from Opera in its creation. Re; the problems. Google can easily say that as it's a beta, users worried by the security issues should wait for the next update to include fixes from webkit and offload it. Given the speed of their EULA retraction though, they might say something and drive a fix. They could easily get open source developers decrying their promptness as 'taking over webkit' or some such, as they are still in the first week of the first release when zealots and pharisees attempt to micro-analyse everything (me included until this morning) about it without looing at a big picture. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81156#Comment_81156 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81156#Comment_81156 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:01:01 -0700 LudwigTheurer
Which is why they need support to separated processes inside the browser, so when an "online" app crashes, it doesn't take google's entire operational system with it.

Not sure how well that's going to work. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81161#Comment_81161 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81161#Comment_81161 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:48:43 -0700 hmobius Of course, Chrome came up in conversation at the same time and it's now here.

I just think that all the process vs thread stuff in the comic did not need to be there. The people who cared would have read a white paper. ]]> Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81163#Comment_81163 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81163#Comment_81163 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:55:41 -0700 liquidcow Google Chrome is out http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81213#Comment_81213 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3483&Focus=81213#Comment_81213 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:57:48 -0700 albill
This doesn't affect the relationship between Mozilla and Google in a direct way. As was reported by Mitchell Baker on her blog and in the press, we just inked a three year deal for search revenue a week or so ago. This extended the existing two year deal set to expire this November until November of 2011. Mozilla gets revenue from a number of sources but everyone knows that Google search revenue is a big source and that is guaranteed for three more years.

The issue, from what I can tell, with Mac versions is that the cool process isolation stuff they are doing so only one tab crashes, etc. can't work on the Mac as they've done it on Windows. So they may have released the Windows beta when they did because they could but are blocked on the Mac version by technical issues. ]]>