http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
Still hella fast though.]]>May 26th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/Half of my office is using Chrome, after I turned them on to it (most were previously using either FF or IE). It's the only browser I ever use any more, both at home and work.]]>May 26th 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
Just tried it with several pages including Engadget. Firefox is still faster.]]>May 26th 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
If you don't use Chrome or Firefox.. you ble--

Just use Chrome or Firefox. That is all. ]]>May 26th 2010 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
Agreed 100%. Only a matter of time before Chrome usage stats skyrocket past other browsers one by one. ]]>May 26th 2010 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
I made my wife try it and she loves how fast it is. Sadly, her office are backwards about supporting anything other than IE (and I believe they're stuck on 7).]]>May 26th 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/Just tried Chrome. Wow! I am never going back to FF. Never.]]>May 26th 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://j.mp/7kembX]]>May 26th 2010 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
It’s a Web-affair. Firefox is like your sedan and Google Chrome is a sports car. Chrome is slimmer, sharper on the edges, always amazes you with it’s speed over others and in fact, you can’t live without both. It’s easier to develop things on Chrome because the extensions are web applications coded with standard web languages (html, HTML 5, css, javascript, ajax).

Driving a sports car sure does feel different from driving a sedan though. You grow attached to the speed and handling of a fine automobile and realize that the back seat in Firefox was just being used to store junk anyway.


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It has many useful extensions, if you didn't know about it here it is: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/?utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-bk-ext&utm_medium=ha

and if you use facebook alot there is an extension for enlarging the pics on the spot without loading a new site, its called Facebook Photo Zoom, really amazing. ]]>May 26th 2010 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
It is amazingly fast, but it's kind of like starting your car early in the morning and forgetting that you had the radio set to 11 when you drove in the night before. The ads! The Flash! MY EYES!!!!!

I wonder if Google will put restrictions on content blocking given their primary business model...]]>May 26th 2010 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
Zippy and clean... I'll give it a shot!]]>May 26th 2010 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/Just plain unib MB here. I load 4 sites (engadget 1st) whenever launching FF and setup same 4 sites w Chrome. Zero delays with Chrome. Pages load FAST and scroll like buttuh. FF was killing me with the memory leaks, long load times and stuttered page scrolls. Chrome is incredible!]]>May 26th 2010 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
Some ads are really annoying, true, but take as an example sites like Engadget and Slashdot, which I visit every day. I know those sites rely on that advertising revenue, and I also don't want them to lose money / go out of business. For me it is plain wrong to block ads from sites that I visit 10+ times daily. Therefore I gladly tolerate the ads, hell I even keep an open mind when something that I'm interested in gets advertised (example here is the Adobe letter/flame war with Apple regarding Flash - I heard about it first here - from the ads) and even *shudder* click on them.

I guess what I'm trying to say It isn't that much of a big deal as people like you make it out to be really.The brain trains itself to ignore whatever is of no relevance to you, so I think that these extensions are totally unnecessary, but what's more important to me, they are ethically questionable.

Remember, you're getting something, for nothing, and you can give something in return, for nothing (no cost to you). If you don't think that's the right way, then I don't know...]]>May 26th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/The obnoxiousness of the ads years ago caused me to give them the death sentence. They had their chance and they blew it. Every time I read about a drive by infection done through an ad server not owned by the site, I am reinforced that blocking is the correct thing to do.

The internet is big. If site goes belly up because of lack of advertising, no big deal. There are 40 other sites that offer the same content. I'll keep using my adblocker, and keep blocking 90% of tracking cookies, gifs, etc. Once I put together a media center PC, I record TV and skip pretty much all ads.

It's a moot point, really. At least 53% of users don't block advertising anyway (IE users). I'm sure the real total is closer to 80%. Anyhow, I'll let the saps pay my way.]]>May 26th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/If sites want me to turn off adblocker... they have to make sure that the ads on their sites dont annoy the crap out of visitors. No visitor also equals zero revenue.

The worst are those ads that pop open to fill half the screen (on unintentional mouseover)...which hides half the content im trying to read.]]>May 26th 2010 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/ Options or Edit --> Preferences, click, "Advanced", then go to the Update tab. Disable auto-checking for add-ons and search engines to speed up Firefox start-up. If you want, disable checking for new Firefox versions as well for even faster start-up.

You'll have to check for updates yourself, but with how seldom they come, it makes such a difference.]]>May 26th 2010 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/]]>May 26th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
Chrome has really added to my desktop clutter.]]>May 26th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
Which user would want to download something and keep a file somewhere you don't really know and hope it gets deleted sometime the next century? :S]]>May 26th 2010 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
Also, I love the search features. Firefox had the ability to make your own "quick links" using bookmarks with the "%s" operator, but Chrome's handling of it is just so much smoother.

That said, I agree that there's a general lack of customizability. I'm not thrilled with the opaque title bar in my Windows 7, too. Also Chrome has difficulty saving some password forms where Firefox was fine.]]>May 26th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
Tab switching can be slow sometimes and it can have problems with flash video on SOME computers where when you go to full screen the controls (play pause etc) don't work so you have to ALT+TAB or something to get out of full screen. I think this has something to do with the way Chrome separates tasks but this only happens on one of my computers so I use FF on that one. Other then that Chrome rocks I just wish it had the Ubiquity FF plugin.]]>May 26th 2010 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
Not sure what youre talking about re open file... I have set to always save to User/downloads...

And anyways when I download (on win 7) I get the download bar at bottom of window, and when my downloads are finished I just click to open them from there and works evry time...

Search features are indeed very cool, like using Tab to search ebay right from the ominbox :)]]>May 26th 2010 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/Just found a quirk: when I selected a bookmark from a subfolder off of a Bookmark bar folder, the subfolder stayed open. I had to restart Chrome to kill the subfolder. This is still a helluva lot better than FF.]]>May 26th 2010 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
"Hi" [bares teeth] "I'm Firefox."

Chrome: [gulp!]]]>May 26th 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/
(polite applause)]]>May 26th 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/May 26th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/Saying it out loud almost sounds like Oprah [Winfrey]...]]>May 26th 2010 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/Firefox : "Want to know how I got all the extensions ? See my father, he was a web developer. My mom was troubled by all the adsharks. Wanted to leave him and move to Chrome, so with me watching, he made an extension called AdBlock Plus. Why you don't like it ?"
Chrome : *GULP*
No but seriously, I got really irritated 4-5 times when there was a horrible scroll jumping problem on Chrome. Even reinstalling it did not solve it for me. I don't use it anymore. I only miss the address bar search on FF. FF FTW.]]>May 26th 2010 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/google-chrome-hits-version-5-brings-stability-to-mac-and-linux/Give the SmoothScroll chrome extension a try. I can't live without it now.]]>May 26th 2010 10:57AM