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I went to amazon, did a search... I thought this was supposed to add the search engine to the 'omnibox'...

I typed in amazon again in my URL and it didn't ask me to press tab to search within amazon
 
I'm not sure what you're talking about as far as speed. I have IE7 opened on one monitor and Chrome on another. Both sites opened ATOT, ESPN, CNN and news.com in about the exact same time.

Meh, I see no reason to upgrade so far. Although, I never saw the huge appeal of FF. IE just flat out works. I don't need a ton of plugins to make something good.
 
Aspects of it remind me of FF3. For example, adding a favorite or saving a password for a site. It is fast, but I don't know if its faster than FF3.
 
It doesn't seem too bad. Unfortunately all the ads flooded in. Bring adblock, noscript and firebug to Chrome and I'll consider using it more.
 
Originally posted by: toekramp
I went to amazon, did a search... I thought this was supposed to add the search engine to the 'omnibox'...

I typed in amazon again in my URL and it didn't ask me to press tab to search within amazon
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now it's working! 😉
 
Originally posted by: toekramp
Originally posted by: Chris
Using it now. Really snappy (thanks to Webkit and the new JavaScript engine) but the UI is terrible. Feels like I am using the AOL browser.
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the UI is pretty much non-existent, but I do know what you mean as far is it being kinda childish
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I like the UI quite a bit. Clear and easy to read, anti-aliased, simplistic....looks great.
 
i like it so far. no extensions, no other settings (i cant even change the skin, or can I?)
but knowing google, this will be in beta for eternity before it goes official.

but so far so good.
 
For all those complaining about adblock:

I've used the hosts file method of adblock for a couple years now - have no complaint - it works perfectly and no additional software to run. Sure, every now and then an add will get through - but its not really a hassle.
 
Originally posted by: EKKC
i like it so far. no extensions, no other settings (i cant even change the skin, or can I?)
but knowing google, this will be in beta for eternity before it goes official.

but so far so good.
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I bet the official version won't take too long to emerge. Most companies and enterprise organizations will not adapt any software that is deemed 'beta'. I'm sure Google wants to tap into that market as well.
 
I am diggin it so far. I am posting from the work laptop that has 256 ram, edge internet connection and more spyware than the CIA and its noticeably faster than IE.
 
It's definitely fast and from what i can tell faster than firefox. I am not that wild about having the tabs on the top of the page, that might just be me not being used to it though. I guarantee they will have some sort of adblock extension available, given that it is open source. I doubt google will be advertising or specifically encouraging the plugin but they will not interfere with it. The speed of the browser is basically the only reason I prefer it over Firefox right now, besides that they really are not that different.

The only thing that worries me is googles increasing monopoly over the internet, sure they aren't evil right now but if they ever become evil we would all be totally screwed.

Edit: I can't center click to scroll mouse either wtf that's annoying.
 
Ughhh...

I found the first thing that I don't like about it. It isn't refreshing my Yahoo stock quotes (runs as streaming quotes in IE/FF)!

Major, major downside. 🙁
 
I found another large downside. When you open lots of tabs, each tab gets smaller and smaller, to the point where you have no idea what each tab is. Without hovering your mouse over it.
 
Hmmm, I thought this was based on WebKit. I need Safari's anti-aliasing. They better allow an option to enable this.
 
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