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From
04/09/2008 22:18:22
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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04/09/2008 17:29:07
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Forum:
Windows
Category:
Computing in general
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01344741
Message ID:
01345036
Views:
15
>>>Chrome is designed to be a very significant browser. Couple it with Google apps and stuff built to an API called Gears and you have a portable mini development platform. Windows, Mac, Linux, whetever. Verrry interrresting. From Google's business point of view it is a TV network in which internet browsing and apps are the programs and Google sells advertising. Brilliant. From our point of view new competition in the computing arena. Good.
>>>
>>>The marketing approach starts with a comic book aimed at techy types explaining the design aims, approach and key choices. It will be very effective at getting good buzz going.
>>>
>>>http://books.google.com/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC&printsec=frontcover#PPA39,M1
>>>
>>>Worth following closely.
>>
>>Judging from other threads, many UT members are already trying it out. (Right now, I am accessing the UT with Chrome.)
>
>When you have done it for a while, please share your experience.

So far:

The porn mode privacy mode is much safer, for any private browsing, than what you get in other browsers - except, I think, Safari which already offers a similar feature. But I never tested that one, especially after reading some negative reviews about the Windows version. Cleaning up your tracks AFTER browsing is too drastic - since it also cleans up cookies, history, etc., from the last few weeks, which you may want to keep.

Some pages don't work, mainly the ones with Java. Those would be certain games, mainly. Of course I need to install the plug-in. When I go to the Java page, I get an overwhelming number of options. Of course, I can eventually take the time to figure it out - but how is one's grandmother, just to give an example, supposed to cope with that?

Most pages, on the other hand, were completely compatible, more than Opera, for example. Specifically, I now use Chrome were I used to use FireFox.

I stated previously that there was no option to re-open pages I accidentally closed. I fount this option in the meantime. It appears when you open a new tab, as a series of links on the "empty" page.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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