Posted: 10/25/2010 7:24:06 PM EDT
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Fill me in I have no clue. AB |
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Chrome2Phone if you have an Android Phone. Some addon (I forget which) that make you not have to click on "Next Page" anymore on Arfcom. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/161941/ |
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Quoted: Any negative aspects to it? AB Last time I used it (six months ago), it opened a new program instance every time I opened a new tab. Since I often run with 10-20 tabs, this was sucking up a ton of RAM. I also tried using in on my work laptop (4GB Dell Vostro). I use Dragon Naturally Speaking. Apparently, Chrome uses some of the same program engine parts. I could not use Dragon at all while Chrome was running, so it got deleted. It's a shame. It was really fast. |
I can't complain about the Chrome. |
I tried to like it, it's clean and fast, but it's also fast to cease connection attempts which means I'm constantly getting the "website unavailable" page when surfing Arfcom, since there seems to be some hop along the way that causes it to drag on my connection. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I don't use it simply because I have no faith in Google keeping private information private. They have proven time and time again that they cannot be trusted. and it is well known that everything you do in chrome is fed through google's servers UnChrome  |
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You can 'install' it with-out admin rights. Pretty handy for work computers that for whatever reason only have IE installed.
I like it because it's lightweight, keeps the tabs on top where they belong and the omni-box is truly superior interface design. It gets out of your way better then any other browser I've used. |
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Any negative aspects to it?
AB Last time I used it (six months ago), it opened a new program instance every time I opened a new tab. Since I often run with 10-20 tabs, this was sucking up a ton of RAM. I also tried using in on my work laptop (4GB Dell Vostro). I use Dragon Naturally Speaking. Apparently, Chrome uses some of the same program engine parts. I could not use Dragon at all while Chrome was running, so it got deleted. It's a shame. It was really fast. The separate instances are a deliberate (and awesome) feature. It isolates individual tabs as separate processes so that if one crashes, the others are unaffected. IE has started doing the same thing. There is an overhead penalty but it's nothing compared to the pages being rendered. |
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Quoted: I don't use it simply because I have no faith in Google keeping private information private. They have proven time and time again that they cannot be trusted. +1,000,000 Google is creepy plain and simple. http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20101025/schmidt-dont-like-google-street-view-photographing-your-house-then-move/ "The problem with Google is that Eric Schmidt is creepy….The industry is filled with eccentric CEOs–billionaires who, say, wear a wardrobe that consists of nothing but identical black shirts and Levi’s 501 jeans, or who dress as a samurai warrior, including swords, at their home. But Schmidt doesn’t seem eccentric (or at least not merely so). He seems creepy.”  Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the company’s "policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”And while that may be true of Google, it’s clearly not true of Schmidt, who lately has been happily high stepping across the creepy line like the grand marshal of the Tone-Deaf Technocrat Parade. In the past year alone he has:
Nice selection of remarks with which to begin a Bartlett’s Unsettling Quotations From Powerful CEOs, right? And Schmidt’s far from done. Appearing on CNN’s "Parker Spitzer” program last week, he said that people who don’t like Google’s Street View cars taking pictures of their homes and businesses "can just move” afterward to protect their privacy. Ironically, he said this on the very day that Google admitted those cars captured more than just fragments of personal payload data. Interestingly, CNN has since edited that quote out of Schmidt’s segment. Did Google ask CNN to remove it? Who knows. Perhaps the company has finally realized that Schmidt’s penchant for indulging in this sort of pedantic dorkery doesn’t do much for its public image. Freaking people out with asinine power-tripping pronouncements might be great fun for Schmidt, but it isn’t a wise PR strategy, particularly when Google is a company about which the public and government are increasingly concerned. Schmidt really should know this. Actually, it’s hard to believe he doesn’t. Which is just…creepy. UPDATE: Here’s Google’s official comment on Schmidt’s "just move” remark as given MarketWatch: "The point Eric was making is that our Street View service provides only a static picture in time, and doesn’t provide real-time imagery or provide any information about where people are. Of course, we also allow users to request that their home be removed from Street View.” UPDATE: CNN says Google did not ask that Schmidt’s remark be removed from the broadcast version of the show. "Producers routinely make editorial decisions about what sound bites to include in their shows,” a spokesperson told me via e-mail. "In this case, the clip was posted on cnn.com and disseminated to other media outlets and was widely available.” |
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Quoted: Chrome2Phone if you have an Android Phone. Some addon (I forget which) that make you not have to click on "Next Page" anymore on Arfcom. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mmffncokckfccddfenhkhnllmlobdahm I use three. Firefox, Opera, and Chrome. Firefox is my main, but I really like the other two. Chrome is a bit buggy sometimes, and Opera isn't supported on some websites I visit. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I don't use it simply because I have no faith in Google keeping private information private. They have proven time and time again that they cannot be trusted. and it is well known that everything you do in chrome is fed through google's servers UnChrome Comodo Chrome |
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Quoted: Any negative aspects to it? AB I have been using chrome for nearly a year now. I've had zero complaints about it. I like the "most commonly visited pages" thumbnails when you open a new browser, and I like how streamlined the interface is (takes up very little real estate on your screen) Try it out, you can always ditch it if you don't like it. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: It's the fastest as well as best browser.  Not anymore. Firefox 4b8 is faster than chrome. I couldn't find 4b8, but i did install 4b6...holy crap http://nightly.mozilla.org Appropriately, the nightly builds are called minefield. Use at your own risk. Also 64bit version available for download. With 64bit flash and java installed, everything is running (mostly) smoothly for me. |
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I don't see how FF is unstable from all the addons, unless it gets bad after you add too many. I have 8 addons installed, other than the Java addons that I didn't personally put there. |
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I used Chromium for a couple weeks, but there are just a few Firefox addons I like that aren't for Chrome/Chromium yet, so until then I'll stay with Firefox. There are also a few features of Firefox that I really like that just aren't there in Chrome/Chromium. I didn't really notice much of a difference between the two in terms of speed or stability. I'm looking forward to the final release of Firefox 4 though. |