Comments on: Hands On With Google’s Chrome Browser

By: Jim Andrew

Jim Andrew — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:15:40 +0000

How do you edit the title of your most visited thumbnails?
All my servers have management sites as well as my SANs. They all show up as “HP System Management…” I can’t tell them apart.

Thanx,
JimA

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:41:54 +0000

You can also view the full history of pages by opening a new tab (Ctrl + T) and clicking on “show full history;” granted, the list will only contain the sites that have been stored in the cache since it was last emptied.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:50:26 +0000

“Why, for instance, is there no mechanism for reopening closed tabs, as there is in both Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8?”

Recently closed tabs are listed on the ‘New Tab’ page.

By: tomascco

tomascco — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:58:06 +0000

Safari? Gimme a break? I’m on a Mac and even I don’t use Safari! I just stuck Chrome on my VMWare partition and so far it flies pretty good.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:51:24 +0000

And why exactly would Safari be the obvious comparison? It doesn’t have a fraction of the users IE and FF have and the only ‘mobile’ device with Safari is the iPhone? Which is what this browser will appease best of all – netbook and internet devices.

By: smallcomputing

smallcomputing — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:26:50 +0000

It sounds like the browser has some promise, especially considering this is day one of the beta. While I appreciate the comparisons to FF3 and IE8, I’m wondering why the most obvious comparison was left out: Safari.

Still, the way it handles tabs sounds interesting and I love the idea that it’ll show you nitty gritty statistics (memory usage). I’ll definitely give it a try and see how it performs, both on my MBP and my netbook(s).

By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:46:11 +0000

Here’s something you’re forgetting. Some of us can’t run Fox 3. I tried and it was slow as frozen molasses on my PC. I had to drop back to Fox 2. So I was very skeptical of Chrome on my old, underpowered RAM-limited hardware. But I’ve been banging on Chrome *hard* and it’s like having a new PC! I can open *double* the number of Tabs than Fox 2 and everything is generally so damned fast that it’s taking my breath away. I also got the first error message:
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/googles-chrome-browser-first-error-message/

If I could get the same plug-ins I need with Fox 2 — like Twitterfox — I’d switch to Chrome permanently.