Chrome for Android out now!

[trmiv]

Yea you just get to see what you had open in a list, then you can open it if you want. Another cool thing about it is it separates your different computers. So I get a list of what I have open on my computer at work, and my computer at home. So nice if I want to run to use the throne room at work, or ready to head to bed at home and don't remember to chrome to phone whatever I was reading.

 

[ponyo]

I don't understand your comment about browsing on underpowered small 3.5 inch mobile device. I don't know about you but for me, the experience is great. 4.65" 720x1280 screen and the browser flies on the Galaxy Nexus. iPhone used to have the best mobile browser. Now with ICS, Android has taken the lead and browsing is better on Galaxy Nexus. You see more and it's just as smooth and you can scroll up and down the entire page in one swipe instead of single page scrolling of iOS.

 

[obidamnkenobi]

I don't understand your comment about browsing on underpowered small 3.5 inch mobile device. I don't know about you but for me, the experience is great. 4.65" 720x1280 screen and the browser flies on the Galaxy Nexus. iPhone used to have the best mobile browser. Now with ICS, Android has taken the lead and browsing is better on Galaxy Nexus. You see more and it's just as smooth and you can scroll up and down the entire page in one swipe instead of single page scrolling of iOS.

Well, I don't have a nexus. I have a 2+ year old ipod thouch which is a laggy mess (3.5" dust-filled screen, 500MHz? 256MB mem?). And if I use too many apps the tabs in opera mini will close, due to memory issues I presume. That's why I severely limit what I browse on it. Reading short text is ok, but anything else I just want a computer.

Now, this won't have Chrome mobile anyway of course and I assume/hope a modern android phones is at least somewhat better, but a mobile device is still less powerful than a "real" computer and i want to keep the two world separate and that why I was asking about this feature. (By the way; If the android browser used to be worse than iOS it must have been terrible! because I've always thought Safari sucks.)

Thanks to the people above for explaining how it works though, sounds a bit more useful to be able to choose which tabs to open on the phone. That could be handy.

 

[abaez]

FYI this is going to become one of the closed source google apps like gmail is. Other companies (like Amazon), will have to now create their own browser using the Chromium open source project instead of using the proprietary stock version.

 

[MrX8503]

I'm jealous of the chrome browser for Android. Chrome is easily the fastest browser on the desktop and I use it over Safari on my MBP. Hopefully Apple stays competitive and updates their Mobile Safari

(By the way; If the android browser used to be worse than iOS it must have been terrible! because I've always thought Safari sucks.)

You're using an old outdated iPod Touch, of course it'll be slow.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Is Google gonna replace the stock Android browser with this eventually? Doesn't make much sense to have two browsers by the same company for the same platform.

 

[chimaxi83]

Installed, been using since last night.

Running an ICS alpha on my Samsung Epic, love this browser. Fast and responsive, smooth scolling, pages look great. Syncing to desktop Chrome bookmarks and open tabs is cool too.

Annoying bug, I've only experienced it on mobile Facebook page though. Try to scroll down but it just snaps back to top. Works for a minute after trying 5 times or so.

Otherwise, good stuff :thumbup:

 

[sygyzy]

I replaced my default browser for the Chrome one and probably won't go back any time soon but I do feel that the stock one is faster and more responsive. Maybe just me?

 

[ponyo]

I replaced my default browser for the Chrome one and probably won't go back any time soon but I do feel that the stock one is faster and more responsive. Maybe just me?

Both are fast but stock is more polished right now and text reflow works on stock but not Chrome. Chrome is not polished enough to replace stock. Lack of Flash is instant deal killer for me. But it's nice supplemental browser and the desktop bookmark sync, global sync, and stealth browsing are killer features you can't get on stock or any other browser right now. It's a great start.

 

[obidamnkenobi]

I'm jealous of the chrome browser for Android. Chrome is easily the fastest browser on the desktop and I use it over Safari on my MBP. Hopefully Apple stays competitive and updates their Mobile Safari



You're using an old outdated iPod Touch, of course it'll be slow.

It's not that it's slow, it's usual decent, but the features have always been crap. Tab management is lame, no speed dial, interface is clunky etc. Opera mini is just more pleasant to use. (to me at least).

 

[Anubis]

meh i still prefer opera or the stock ICS one, if this replaces the stock ICS one i simply only use opera

 

[ponyo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ZDmpc0WyQ&feature=relmfu

The more I use it, the more I see the brilliance of unified Chrome browser. What I loved about Chrome for desktop is that if I signed in and switched to different computers, all my bookmarks and settings carried over to any other computer using Chrome. If you made any changes to bookmark or settings, it carried over to the other computers running Chrome. And now mobile Chrome is just extension of that and changes now carry over to the mobile Chrome. What's neat is that Chrome remembers all the searches and things you viewed on all your desktop browsers so when you start typing letters on your mobile Chrome browser, suggestions pop up from what you may have typed or viewed on the desktop browser. So suggestions are smarter and more accurate. It's brilliant.

There's also Chrome to Mobile beta extension you can add to your desktop browser. You'll see little phone icon on right side your browser input bar. It's like Chrome to Phone extension for the stock browser except you don't have to download the app to your Android devices. When you click on it, all your mobile devices running Chrome are displayed and you can select the device to send it to. And if you install dev channel version of desktop Chrome browser, you can send what's known as Snapshots. Snapshots offline browsing version of a page.