What do you make of Google Chrome?

[Lost_Soul]

Hi, Amy

You can try this method : http://nspeaks.com/348/google-chrome-on-windows-2000-works-with-my-method/
Maybe it will work for you :) (I have no idea if this method works at all)

[Yankee]

Hey, thanks, Alex!

Should be interesting, though, to see whether I'm technologically adept enough to manage that. The first challenge will be to see if I can figure out whether I've actually got SP4 on this thing. :lol:
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[Lost_Soul]

You're welcome, Amy !

And to check if you've got SP4, go to "My Computer" -> Properties, a window will open up with tabs, and on one of the tabs you should be able to see what SP you've got installed :)

[Torsten]

Hi Amy,

How are you getting along with your Chrome testing project? By the way, I've just noticed something pretty interesting: When I use the Firefox address bar to type in a keyword and hit "enter", Yahoo is launched and shows me its search results. In the previous Firefox version, you could not use the address box to search keywords. You had to enter an existing URL or else you got an error message. Now the address bar functions as a search box too. The first time I saw this feature was with Chrome. It seems that Firefox and Chrome are quite similar in their functionality. However, what strikes me as strange is that the Firefox address bar is connected to Yahoo and not to Google.

Anyone noticed this too?
Thanks,
Torsten
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[NinaZara]

You know what Torsten, when I first tried Chrome, I gave it a shot searching by typing in keywords into the address bar because Chrome doesn't have the toolbar feature (and therefore I couldn't find any search box which I could have used when searching from a website). I am a bit impressed, because this feature is a must if they want to create free toolbar window, which is quite messy sometime, if you have too many of them.

[Yankee]

Hi Torsten

I'm not sure why your version of Firefox takes you to Yahoo, because mine (version 3.0.1) takes me to Google when I type in a keyword in the address bar.

No, I haven't tried Chrome yet.
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[NinaZara]

Hi Amy,

I didn't know we had this feature too on Firefox. I tried it and it gave me the search results.

And Torsten,
I think it connected to Yahoo because I downloaded Firefox under the recommendation of Yahoo, but I think this can be easily changed, if you prefer Google, just make Google your main search engine. No biggy.

I have Safari, Chrome and IE on my PC but I use Firefox mainly. I like IE second and am not really crazy about Safari. I better check out IE 8.0, I moved to Firefox before because of the add-ons.

Have a nice day everybody!

Nina

[Torsten]

[NinaZara]

Jamie, the one thing that I like about Safari is, contrast to other browsers, the highlights are in blue on a white page. I think this is more friendly to the eyes because it is easier to read black fonts with blue highlights than to read white fonts on a greenish gray background.

But this is just a personal preference of mine, I have a habit of highlighting paragraphs when I read them. I just discovered this. ;)

[MrPedantic]

I've read that unless you choose "Incognito" mode, or switch off AutoSuggest, your keystrokes on Chrome may be collected and stored by Google, together with your IP. Apparently this happens even if you don't press return.

MrP

[Sunflower.baby]

[Yankee]

Hi Alex and Torsten

Well, I've attempted to install Google Chrome, but every time I try to start the program it crashes. :(

So, I guess I'll be sticking with Firefox for now.
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[MrPedantic]

(I like to spread my spraints around a bit, in any case. Google already knows far too much about me.)

[Stylishchoco]

[Maryann]

Mozilla Firefox RULES!!! It's my favourite browser either :) Chrome is already dowloaded and it seems to be really good! Especially that function of "incognito" is something new and interesting.