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New Google Chrome Beta

36 points by agotterer 18y ago

acangiano 18y ago
Is it just me or is Google Chrome not properly displaying feeds? This is really annoying. For example, when I click on http://news.ycombinator.com/rss http://news.ycombinator.com/rss I see a garbled rendition of the feed. Any other browser I'ver tried displays a subscribe page with each feed entry properly formatted.
- truebosko 18y ago
  No, this happens to me too. I think it's cause it has no built in RSS reading support yet
mpk 18y ago
And .... still no linux build.
- agotterer 18y ago
  or Mac :(
  - reconbot 18y ago
    A significant amount of work is going into both those builds but a lot more is needed. As much as I love having a multiprocess browser the V8 JS engine is the real heart of gold of chrome, and that is cross platform. Just nothing uses it besides chrome as far as I know. I do know that the next Mozilla JS engine feels to me at least (and if you benchmark different apps) just as fast. So the next firefox will be on par with speed and it will be cross platform. It will just have tabs that are not as cool.
    - unalone 18y ago
      Why won't it have cool tabs? Or do you mean in comparison to Chrome?
      - nuclear_eclipse 18y ago
        Well, FF 3.1 (or 3.5, whatever) will have an improved tabbing system, including the ability to drag tabs out of the window to create new windows, etc, but they will still lack the inherent feature that, IMO, makes Chrome a real innovator: per-tab processes. That's really the single-biggest feature that I would love to see in Firefox. If not for a few must-have plugins that keep me coming back to Firefox, and of course the lack of Linux support, I would have switched to Chrome the moment it came out on that single feature alone.
        gnaritas 18y ago
        Ditto, per process tabs are something that someone should have thought of a long time ago. As soon as they drop a Linux version I'm switching.
        blasdel 18y ago
        Firefox (and all other mozilla browsers) can't even have multiple processes sharing the same profile period. It's ridiculously lame.
    - whughes 18y ago
      As I recall, the bleeding-edge Safari, Firefox, and Chrome JS engines are all pretty competitive. IE and Opera are behind in public, but Opera is writing a new engine. The multiprocess structure and UI are the only real advantages Chrome has left from my point of view.
  - zmonteca 18y ago
    Totally worthless. Out of beta and no Mac? C'mon guys!
  - wooby 18y ago
    http://stainlessapp.com/ http://stainlessapp.com/ - at version .5, an interesting Mac alternative.
    - mark_h 18y ago
      That looks quite interesting, thanks for that.
- tutwabee 18y ago
  There are builds of Chromium for Linux. It's just in pre-alpha and lack everything except for very basic functionality (no tabs yet). So far, the omnibar works, pages render well, and it feels very fast. Ubuntu builds repository to keep up on the progress: https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
pibefision 18y ago
We need a mac release...
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aliasaria 18y ago
Is it just me or is Chrome just not as exciting as we'd hoped?
- robotron 18y ago
  Just curious, what were you hoping for? I don't use it but it does bring features to the table that browsers either don't have or didn't have at the time.
  - swolchok 18y ago
    It would be nice if it made IE disappear out of its sheer appeal to the masses.
    - agotterer 18y ago
      Its not as simple as that. Most computer users are not educated on the browser options. IE is the standard for internet browsing because it comes with their computer.
- zmimon 18y ago
  Chrome is much more than I had hoped for. There are only 2 disappointments with it for me: * where are the plugins? * where are the linux / mac builds. In both cases the waiting has gone on too long to be credible any more. However everything else about it has been wonderful and despite its low market share it has really set a new benchmark for speed and responsiveness that all the other vendors are paying attention to.
  - snprbob86 18y ago
    Extensions are coming: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensio... Mac versions are in the works: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/mac.html http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/mac.html "too long to be credible"? Seriously? A handful of developers build Chrome in an incredibly short period of time. They choose to built it for the largest platform. They have rolled out dozens of revisions. The product is stable and solid and beautiful. And you seriously are going trash them for taking their time with lower priority features such as Mac support?
mixmax 18y ago
So does it still constantly crash or is that fixed?
- snprbob86 18y ago
  Google pushed dozens of patches transparently in the background. My understanding is that you could have every different tab running a different version if you kept them open over long periods of time. The video-related crashes totally disappeared for me within the first month of use. The Gmail related crashes disappeared shortly after that. I haven't seen it crash since and I use it almost exclusively.
nanexcool 18y ago
Anyone try this with Windows 7 Beta 64 bit? To make the regular version work you have to add "--in-process-plugins" to the executable to make it work.

36 points by agotterer 18y ago

Is it just me or is Google Chrome not properly displaying feeds? This is really annoying. For example, when I click on http://news.ycombinator.com/rss http://news.ycombinator.com/rss I see a garbled rendition of the feed. Any other browser I'ver tried displays a subscribe page with each feed entry properly formatted.

truebosko 18y ago
No, this happens to me too. I think it's cause it has no built in RSS reading support yet

mpk 18y ago

And .... still no linux build.

agotterer 18y ago
or Mac :(
- reconbot 18y ago
  A significant amount of work is going into both those builds but a lot more is needed. As much as I love having a multiprocess browser the V8 JS engine is the real heart of gold of chrome, and that is cross platform. Just nothing uses it besides chrome as far as I know. I do know that the next Mozilla JS engine feels to me at least (and if you benchmark different apps) just as fast. So the next firefox will be on par with speed and it will be cross platform. It will just have tabs that are not as cool.
  - unalone 18y ago
    Why won't it have cool tabs? Or do you mean in comparison to Chrome?
    - nuclear_eclipse 18y ago
      Well, FF 3.1 (or 3.5, whatever) will have an improved tabbing system, including the ability to drag tabs out of the window to create new windows, etc, but they will still lack the inherent feature that, IMO, makes Chrome a real innovator: per-tab processes. That's really the single-biggest feature that I would love to see in Firefox. If not for a few must-have plugins that keep me coming back to Firefox, and of course the lack of Linux support, I would have switched to Chrome the moment it came out on that single feature alone.
      - gnaritas 18y ago
        Ditto, per process tabs are something that someone should have thought of a long time ago. As soon as they drop a Linux version I'm switching.
      - blasdel 18y ago
        Firefox (and all other mozilla browsers) can't even have multiple processes sharing the same profile period. It's ridiculously lame.
  - whughes 18y ago
    As I recall, the bleeding-edge Safari, Firefox, and Chrome JS engines are all pretty competitive. IE and Opera are behind in public, but Opera is writing a new engine. The multiprocess structure and UI are the only real advantages Chrome has left from my point of view.
- zmonteca 18y ago
  Totally worthless. Out of beta and no Mac? C'mon guys!
- wooby 18y ago
  http://stainlessapp.com/ http://stainlessapp.com/ - at version .5, an interesting Mac alternative.
  - mark_h 18y ago
    That looks quite interesting, thanks for that.
tutwabee 18y ago
There are builds of Chromium for Linux. It's just in pre-alpha and lack everything except for very basic functionality (no tabs yet). So far, the omnibar works, pages render well, and it feels very fast. Ubuntu builds repository to keep up on the progress: https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa

pibefision 18y ago

We need a mac release...

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aliasaria 18y ago

Is it just me or is Chrome just not as exciting as we'd hoped?

robotron 18y ago
Just curious, what were you hoping for? I don't use it but it does bring features to the table that browsers either don't have or didn't have at the time.
- swolchok 18y ago
  It would be nice if it made IE disappear out of its sheer appeal to the masses.
  - agotterer 18y ago
    Its not as simple as that. Most computer users are not educated on the browser options. IE is the standard for internet browsing because it comes with their computer.
zmimon 18y ago
Chrome is much more than I had hoped for. There are only 2 disappointments with it for me: * where are the plugins? * where are the linux / mac builds. In both cases the waiting has gone on too long to be credible any more. However everything else about it has been wonderful and despite its low market share it has really set a new benchmark for speed and responsiveness that all the other vendors are paying attention to.
- snprbob86 18y ago
  Extensions are coming: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensio... Mac versions are in the works: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/mac.html http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/mac.html "too long to be credible"? Seriously? A handful of developers build Chrome in an incredibly short period of time. They choose to built it for the largest platform. They have rolled out dozens of revisions. The product is stable and solid and beautiful. And you seriously are going trash them for taking their time with lower priority features such as Mac support?

mixmax 18y ago

So does it still constantly crash or is that fixed?

snprbob86 18y ago
Google pushed dozens of patches transparently in the background. My understanding is that you could have every different tab running a different version if you kept them open over long periods of time. The video-related crashes totally disappeared for me within the first month of use. The Gmail related crashes disappeared shortly after that. I haven't seen it crash since and I use it almost exclusively.

nanexcool 18y ago

Anyone try this with Windows 7 Beta 64 bit? To make the regular version work you have to add "--in-process-plugins" to the executable to make it work.