Google Chrome Review: first impressions not good
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Well I have been waiting since yesterday to get my hands on Google Chrome, the search engine giant’s open source web browser. So I downloaded it from Google and then installed the software, and then decided to give Chrome a go. My first impressions are not that good.
So I then opened Google Chrome up and had a little play, and that was when I noticed the first of my problems. Firstly I could not find a button or logo to go back to my homepage, on further investigation it seems that you need to have your toolbar on for the Homepage button to appear.
Then there is the problem with my bookmarks which I imported from Firefox, for some reason I could not get them to show up. No matter what I tried I just could not find my bookmarks.
So what are your first impressions of Google Chrome?
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Well I too am facing the bookmarks problems… all my bookmarks are on Google bookmarks and there seems to be no way of directly importing these into Chrome!!
Well i too was unimpressed with the Google Chrome browser. there are a couple of sites that is go to that require Java to login and each site told me that i was not running the correct version. Now i know some businesses use these sites for payroll and accounting business services and such. Chrome will not be of any use unless the java platform is backward compatible. I really did not see any speed increases like the cartoon/comic said. i will continue to test the product and look for some major updates. i will not be advising anyone to use Chrome with out having a secondary available to go to the real websites.
Live mail do not work with this explorer…
asp:menu server control for visual studio 2005 sp1 don’t work too.
I see my bookmarks imported from FF3 no problem with that, but there’s on the right of the browser kind of wierd ’cause i’m use to left position i cannot find a way to move them to the right…
mmm i guess Options… will improve theirs menu some
when i close chrome and have many tabs open no warning message saying i’m about to close them showed…
very fast with some pages… great
i prove to download a .rar file uploaded in 4shared, greate stuff the status bar on ur bottom left corner with the icon of the file, and progress bar like a clock very good very good… notification when downloads complete missed, and i didn’t prove it with multiple downloads…
That’s strange, Chrome installed nicely, imported all of my Firefox Bookmarks, which can be found on the top right side of the Browser. This Browser from Google is Beta, first attempt at the Browser world, so let’s give them a chance and see what they do with it. Sure Beats Internet Exploder any day!! Still Firefox is my Browser of choice.
Faster on google sites. slower on all other sites that i use compared to FF. So much for speed.
I get the impression that you’re one of those very inexperienced computer users who can’t even figure their way around a new program.
Funny how many people are “inexperienced” as you infer
MIKE
Agreed with sapphire. All the reports say no problem importing bookmarks. Up in 5 seconds. Most complain about the lack of add-ons. But in general is a great Beta version (it’s not even 1.0 yet). Why do you want a home button? Your browser will always open where you left. Also you have a history of the sites you visited often. Spend a little more time…. It’s not that hard. And it’s FAST!
A tad disappointed with their beta release… lots of issues from regular websites viewing… from facebook apps not working properly (e.g. friends for sale, unable to buy) to java not working properly (fancybox and clones, works on first click, second click gets you no where), poor flash performance (interactive charts a choppy). Of course all the above work great in FF and IE. I see this becoming a web development nightmare in having to dealing with more web browser that behaves differently even though they claim to be standard compliant.
I question the lack of options chrome offers… I miss having my cache cleared automatically for me upon exit or all the neat add-ons (but give it time for add-ons)…
As with the rest of Google apps, this will stay in Beta stages for years to come…
I do love the multi-layer approach to loading webpages as it makes some pages load much faster. I just don’t see the flash or java support being up there… unless they all have to be tweaked for chrome?
Why don’t they just jump in bed (deeper) with FF and combine the two to make one heck of a browser?… for now I’m sticking with FF and IE…
browser is fast when loading pages. but that is the only plus point. it is not at all user-friendly. If you import bookmarks from Firefox, they are not placed in the normal ‘Bookmarks’ menu! there is no ‘down arrow’ on the address toolbar to view history of most recent pages visited. This is really bad as I don’t want to click on bookmarks to open a favourite.
I uninstalled it within 10 mins and back to using Firefox and IE