[jeffd]

internaly hosted web ads huh? I'll pass. I use noscript so javascript hangups are a rare occurrence (Not that im not a big fan of separate program instances. That was one of the things I loved having explorer in).

It will take alot to get me to drop fire fox. Not only is it a good performer, but it has plugins I like and its secure. Allready out the gates and google has already shown their lax in security using out dated exploit riden code.

[jeffd]

internaly hosted web ads huh? I'll pass. I use noscript so javascript hangups are a rare occurrence (Not that im not a big fan of separate program instances. That was one of the things I loved having explorer in).

It will take alot to get me to drop fire fox. Not only is it a good performer, but it has plugins I like and its secure. Allready out the gates and google has already shown their lax in security using out dated exploit riden code.

[Rocco Augusto]

Originally Posted by Jonathan1

The biggest feature that is a "sale" for me is the fact that each tab is a sep process. No more crashing the entire browser when 1 site gets twitchy.

This is my favorite feature as well. As a web developer this can do wonders for helping find memory leaks in websites instead of playing the guessing game at which site you're viewing is causing you to use 300MB in Firefox (who are we kidding, just opening up Firefox eats away at more memory than it should).

I can't seem to find it again but I read the plugins used their own processes as well. Just as spiffy as the tabs. Unfortunately, I don't see myself using this anytime soon. Like all of Google's services, they're nice to look at but I value my privacy a little to much to let them do whatever they want with it, which they do often.

Just my $0.02

[Felix Torres]

Try this one:
Google's Omnibox could be Pandora's box | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News

"Provided that users leave Chrome's auto-suggest feature on and have Google as their default search provider, Google will have access to any keystrokes that are typed into the browser's Omnibox, even before a user hits enter. "

You don't have to actually *go* to a specific site for google to know you thought of it. And when you consider that statistical data-gathering is a built-in Chrome function...

I'm a-thinking Chrome's "privacy mode" is never going to be particularly private. Especially since one of the reasons Chrome exists, at all, is that Firefox and IE8 have solid privacy modes.

I don't think Chrome is going to be particularly welcome by corporate IT departments...

[MAK11]

Originally Posted by Jonathan1

The biggest feature that is a "sale" for me is the fact that each tab is a sep process. No more crashing the entire browser when 1 site gets twitchy.

Well then you should try IE 8 Beta 2
MS introduced this feature (and a few others) with Beta 1 quite a few months ago..
http://www.microsoft.com/ie8

[Jason Dunn]

That EULA just has to be a mistake - it's just too crazy otherwise.

[Rocco Augusto]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

That EULA just has to be a mistake - it's just too crazy otherwise.

It might not be. Even if Google never uses any of the information that went through your browser, which chances are they most likely will not, being in the advertising business as deep as they are I see this EULA being more of a CYA tactic instead of a 'here is what we are going to do' situation.

[Stinger]

The crazier the EULA, the less likely it is to stand up in court.

Chrome seems very decent. Very fast and stable so far. I miss FF's search bar though - I can't find a quick way to swap search engines in Chrome.

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by Rocco Augusto

It might not be. Even if Google never uses any of the information that went through your browser, which chances are they most likely will not, being in the advertising business as deep as they are I see this EULA being more of a CYA tactic instead of a 'here is what we are going to do' situation.

It is a mistake. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...change-it.html

--janak

[Rob Alexander]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Beyond speed, the way that Chrome works from a stability standpoint is fascinating: each tab is actually a separate running process. That means that if one Web page crashes your browser, it only takes down that one tab, leaving the rest intact. I've lost more work than I care to admit through Firefox and Internet Explorer crashes, so this is hugely appealing to me.

It IS a great feature, and one that Internet Explorer 8 already has. It's one of the reasons I went ahead and moved to it, even though it's also only a beta. From looking around the links in here, Chrome looks pretty decent, but there is no way I am going to agree to the terms of that license.

[BevHoward]

Spent some time with the beta yesterday, but, came away with the impression that a large percentage of the functionality and configurability of Seamonkey (Mozilla Suite) is simply not there... for example, configuring how the tabs will work.

I do like the promise that it will handle the various content types transparently, so, would look forward to something such as an "Open Page in Chrome" plugin in order to view the many sites which don't think I have flash installed or that, in their opinion, I am not using a "proper" browser.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]