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Thread ID: 93066 2008-09-02 19:33:00 Am I the first in NZ w/ Google Chrome Paul Camford (10007) PC World Chat
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702073 2008-09-03 00:13:00 It somehow reminds me of an app one would have on an Eee PC or on a VERY old, slow machine - extremely basic interface, minimal config options and no addon capabilities (as yet).

Thumbs down from me.

And it installs extra software! Google Updater... :groan:... just like other corps I know of... *cough*Apple*cough*
jwil1 (65)
702074 2008-09-03 00:23:00 Browser rivals confident they can compete with Google (reseller.co.nz)


Browser makers Microsoft, Mozilla. and Opera Software reacted to news that Google is introducing a browser of its own, saying that they welcome the competition and are not afraid of the search giant's move.

Personally, with Google's growth history, I would have thought the attitude "Be afraid, be very afraid" might be more appropriate...

But I think Google Chrome has a little way to go yet, before it gets huge support from the masses....
johcar (6283)
702075 2008-09-03 00:39:00 They will have to do very very very well to get me using it over Firefox 3 and IE7 Agent_24 (57)
702076 2008-09-03 00:41:00 Browser rivals confident they can compete with Google (reseller.co.nz)



Personally, with Google's growth history, I would have thought the attitude "Be afraid, be very afraid" might be more appropriate...

But I think Google Chrome has a little way to go yet, before it gets huge support from the masses....

I wouldnt have google anything, except for maybe google earth cause that pretty good, anyway all the google apps send data back to their servers etc, no way I want to be part of that!!!
SolMiester (139)
702077 2008-09-03 01:52:00 I wouldnt have google anything, except for maybe google earth cause that pretty good, anyway all the google apps send data back to their servers etc, no way I want to be part of that!!!

Of course Google-do!

Just exactly that and that's where your e-mail is too....but we wanted to keep our hdds free for games and stuff....


...and besides, Google is gonna be our next V-DESKTOP.
SurferJoe46 (51)
702078 2008-09-03 04:47:00 Google is financing Firefox and probably have access to everything learned in Firefox development for Chrome.

It seems very fast and at first glance quite good.

Apparently Firefox 3.1, due out soon, is going to have significant changes making it much faster than 3.01, optimization of the code resulting in a much slicker feel.
zqwerty (97)
702079 2008-09-03 04:49:00 its fast but one thing i didn't like about it is that customizing it sucks.
if i had to rate the browsers
Firefox 3 8.7/10
IE8 6.1/10
Chrome 3.0/10
mohadino (14141)
702080 2008-09-03 04:55:00 its fast but one thing i didn't like about it is that customizing it sucks.
if i had to rate the browsers
Firefox 3 8.7/10
IE8 6.1/10
Chrome 3.0/10

Ouch.

I like it for what it is at the moment, and being completely open-source, we'll no doubt see add-ons soon enough.
jermsie (6820)
702081 2008-09-03 06:18:00 I installed Chrome.

My next move will uninstall.

IE8 Beta works for me on all pages I have loaded.

At least they have a sense of humour it comes up with "Was it something we said" in the uninstall.
Sweep (90)
702082 2008-09-03 06:33:00 The ONLY reason why I have ANY IE at all . . is to get SP-Xx and updates to their anti-vir .

Otherwise, I'd chuck IE as far as I could .

I'm dyed in the wool . . FF and Google user . . . . but then if I ever get to make a clean install of PCL . . . well, maybe I'll use FF and Google there too .
SurferJoe46 (51)
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