# Google Chrome experiences? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 4, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988 "2008-09-04T14:14:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/21 "2008-09-05T11:51:00Z")
What about the carpet bomb threat? > **[IT news, careers, business technology, reviews](https://www.computerworld.com/)** > > Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: Windows, Mobile, Apple/enterprise, Office and productivity suites, collaboration, web browsers and blockchain, as well as relevant information about companies... Until Google obviates it, should computer-challenged folks avoid Chrome? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/22 "2008-09-05T15:12:57Z")
> [@BarnOwl](#): > > What about the carpet bomb threat? > > [http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9114078&intsrc=news\_ts\_head](http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9114078&intsrc=news_ts_head) > > Until Google obviates it, should computer-challenged folks avoid Chrome? No. Simply check the option to ask where to download to on the Minor Tweaks tab of the Options ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/23 "2008-09-05T16:09:55Z")
OK browser, no more. I’ll stick with Firefox, especially since I don’t get to import bookmarks from that browser, only IE. The most important feature of a browser to me is adblock, anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/24 "2008-09-05T16:37:35Z")
> [@Wakinyan](#): > > OK browser, no more. I’ll stick with Firefox, especially since I don’t get to import bookmarks from that browser, only IE. The most important feature of a browser to me is adblock, anyhow. You can import bookmarks from Firefox. I migrated my Opera bookmarks by importing them into Firefox, then importing the Firefox bookmarks into Chrome (Chrome won’t import bookmarks directly from Opera). It’s in the wrench menu, “Import bookmarks and settings…”, then choose Firefox from the dropdown list where it says “From:”. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/25 "2008-09-05T17:36:46Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > No. Simply check the option to ask where to download to on the Minor Tweaks tab of the Options Thank you, **Quartz**. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/26 "2008-09-05T17:56:18Z")
Moved from General Questions to In My Humble Opinion. **Gfactor** General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/27 "2008-09-05T18:01:18Z")
There are demonstration exploits of several security holes beyond the silent download already, including remote code execution vulnerabilities. For a product that claims to be built from the ground up for security, that’s a lame start, especially since one of them is a buffer-overrun bug on the \ tag of a window. On my dual-monitor machine, Chrome tells the OS that it is a full-screen app, meaning that the auto-hide Task Bar won’t come up, and MSN Messenger switches to (Busy) status. It doesn’t show the same behaviour on my laptop, nor running under VirtualPC with the same OS/patch level as my dual-monitor box. As well, more than once, closing a tab has exited the browser with several other tabs still open. I love how fast JavaScript runs. The JIT compiler seems to be a sweet innovation that I hope sticks around. Chrome won’t be displacing Firefox for me for a while, though. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/28 "2008-09-05T20:18:07Z")
> [@Cerowyn](#): > > On my dual-monitor machine, Chrome tells the OS that it is a full-screen app, meaning that the auto-hide Task Bar won’t come up, and MSN Messenger switches to (Busy) status. I don’t get that behaviour here on my dual-monitor box. I’ve got Chrome running on one monitor and Firefox on the other - the best of both worlds. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/29 "2008-09-05T22:52:11Z")
I’m more interested in [Google **Crom**](http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp09032008.shtml) 😛 At least until there’s a Mac version of Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![A\_shameful\_cracka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@A\_shameful\_cracka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_shameful_cracka)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/30 "2008-09-05T23:03:39Z")
Still adjusting to the bare-bones interface…some of it seems a bit unintuitive, but I haven’t played with it enough to even figure out the different places I can save my bookmarks. Didn’t seem able to import my Opera bookmarks (Opera is my primary browser). I’m sure I can figure out a way to import them, but I think it’s funny it spent a minute importing bookmarks and all I ended up with were the ones that came with my Internet Explorer (that I hardly ever touch, using it only for sites that don’t like Opera). ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/31 "2008-09-05T23:14:44Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I’m more interested in [Google **Crom**](http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp09032008.shtml) 😛 > > At least until there’s a Mac version of Chrome. What? BLASPHEMY! Crom doesn’t care about anyone! The very moment you pray to him, as in the 3rd panel (though it’s laughable Crom would reward you, as all he does is give Cimmerians the strength they need at birth and never help again) you would be smote for bothering him! _Ahem_ maybe I spent too long reading Conan books and hanging around on the Age of Conan pre-release forums… ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/32 "2008-09-05T23:18:33Z")
> [@A\_shameful\_cracka](#): > > Didn’t seem able to import my Opera bookmarks (Opera is my primary browser). I’m sure I can figure out a way to import them, but I think it’s funny it spent a minute importing bookmarks and all I ended up with were the ones that came with my Internet Explorer (that I hardly ever touch, using it only for sites that don’t like Opera). Import your Opera bookmarks into Firefox, then import you Firefox bookmarks into Chrome - that’s how I did it. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/33 "2008-09-06T01:08:36Z")
I liked it at first but under full, sitting at my PC, while watching HDTV in a window via a USB device I discovered that it has the same resource hungry problem as Firefox. Both browsers, unlike IE, carry a huge CPU load for any tabs for sites running Flash (such as youtube) whether you are looking at them or not but the **Flashblock** addon for Firefox overcomes the problem. So back to Firefox for the time being. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/34 "2008-09-06T07:42:37Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > You can import bookmarks from Firefox. I migrated my Opera bookmarks by importing them into Firefox, then importing the Firefox bookmarks into Chrome (Chrome won’t import bookmarks directly from Opera). > > It’s in the wrench menu, “Import bookmarks and settings…”, then choose Firefox from the dropdown list where it says “From:”. Thank you. But I already did that, and noticed I don’t have Firefox in the dropdown list, only Internet Explorer. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/35 "2008-09-09T13:58:21Z")
One of my concerns, the non-standard location of the executable, is resolved if a [daily build](http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/) is used instead. No installer; just unzip and plop it in the 32-bit Program Files folder. I’m going to use Chrome/Chromium for testing Web pages I create for compatibility, but I’m still not sold. No Adblock (I use other browsers without built-in ad blocking, such as Opera and Safari, to see the Adsense ads displayed on my Web site and others), no plugins, somewhat awkward bookmark organization, difficult to customize, no built-in spellchecker, and no typing undo. Looking at the resources/time display in the Chrome elements inspector versus Fasterfox in Firefox, pages take about the same amount of time to load in Chrome as in Firefox; it seems faster. Firefox 3 will still be my default for Windows. (Same for my aging Mac iBook G4, too; I use Foxmarks for bookmark synchronization.) I wonder if Chromium will work as a portable app … ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/36 "2008-09-09T14:19:23Z")
For those who downloaded it early on, an update is available. Click on the spanner, then About Google Chrome and it will automatically check for an update. ---
**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/37 "2008-09-09T15:02:57Z")
This may have been answered, but does Chrome block Google Ads? Wouldn’t that be a conflict of interest or something? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/38 "2008-09-09T15:14:00Z")
> [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](#): > > This may have been answered, but does Chrome block Google Ads? Wouldn’t that be a conflict of interest or something? I doubt it, but no browser (at least the ones I’m familiar with) blocks ads out of the box. Firefox is only capable of doing so because of third-party extensions written for it that you need to install after you install Firefox itself. Once the independent development on Chrome gets rolling, you’ll see either extensions or variant releases that will do things like block ads, including Google ads, and the like. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988/39 "2008-09-09T15:24:00Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > What ads? I’m using Chrome and don’t see them. This might be a board configuration issue: I’m listed as a Charter Member and you’re listed as a Member. Do you see the ads in other browsers? > > ETA Crusoe, you’ll get them because you’re a Guest. If he sees them and is a member, he’s not logged in, therefore gets the same treatment as a guest. It’s working nicely for me, although I’d like to be able to clean up the “recently visited” proposals some and it’s taken me almost a whole two days to figure out that the star symbol creates a new “marcador.” I also do wish the stupid thing would let people choose the language they want to use. My install is in Spanish, which is OK, but what if I still had my German-keyboard-and-settings computer? Ich spreche nicht Deutsch! It loads well some pages which dislike Firefox immensely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-experiences/461988.md?page=1)