Thread: Chrome - The new browser by Google

Just downloaded it. Pretty clean, resembles Firefox in some ways.

Google Chrome - Download a new browser

Anybody else playing with this yet?

I'm rockin' on it right now. I love Google's stuff, and this browser seems to have a lot of promise.

One thing that I'm hoping for soon is the ability to integrate my bookmarks from my Google toolbar. Or am I missing this somehow?

Josh

Heck, you got me. I miss AdBlock+ on Firefox.

using it now. very slick. looks nice, good use of the top 'bar' for the tabs, very stylish. still will take some getting used to, but so far, i like it

Waiting patiently for the Mac & Linux versions, but I'm using it now in a Vista VM, and I like it.

It doesn't surprise me that it's like FF- they took a bunch of the code from FF. That being said, I don't know that I'll be trying it. I like Mozilla's take on privacy and am not too keen on the way Google handles things. They've already got me by the virtual balls with gmail and all my searches anyway

The funny thing is that Chrome has better privacy controls than Firefox - "incognito mode:"

You've gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.

I'm using it for the google pages that I already use / visit.

I'm not worried about the things my computer keeps, I'm worried about what Google keeps

They should rename incognito mode to something more realistic: porn mode

After one day of using Chrome, I'm still really liking it. I think I'm hooked. I love that I can use my Alt+S shortcut to post on SRP again.

The privacy thing is something that I've thought about, but privacy is pretty much out the window if you're doing much on the Web anyway. Right now I trust Google to use the information they're collecting about me responsibly. I don't mind having ads targeted to me; ads are always going to be a part of the Web, and it takes the annoyance factor down a half notch.

Google has earned my trust through their user-focused approach to development. To me, the hallmark of a well-designed product is one that you don't have to tweak much to get it to do what you want. I liked FireFox, but I had to tweak it, and it still wasn't quite where I wanted it. This browser just does it out of the box. It's the same thing that I experience with my BlackBerry. I don't need a million downloadable apps, because it does what I need it to already.

Google makes stuff that I love, and they let me use it for "free." I know I'm helping them make money through advertising, but I think my information is safer sitting on their servers than on my hard drive where a hacker could get to it more easily. I see this "data cloud" approach to computing as the direction thing are going, so we're all going to have to make some decisions about who to trust with our information in the future.

Maybe I'm naive.

Josh

I love Google too, I guess I'm just a bit of a privacy luddite.