So how does one compile the Chromium code (I’ve got a zip file with PDB files) in order to not have to agree to the Google EULA? I already installed Chrome before seeing the EULA problem, but I have no problem uninstalling that and installing the open source version.
As a photographer, I do NOT grant anyone an irrevocable license to use my images, even if I were to post them on a message board, which I do from time to time.
Explorer has been acting up on me lately so I just downloaded Chrome and installed it.
I love it.
Well IE is just ick…but it is what every site tests with, so it works mostly. Oh yeah, on my machine it randomly fails to start properly.
Firefox is a resource hog. Fails with some IE only sites.
Opra is like firefox light, starts up faster, and runs faster, and the tabbing works better. But there are even more sites that don’t like it than firefox.
So yeah, there is room for a better browser.
I tried to download google bar for my new chrome browser, chrome told me i needed to update my firefox to at least version 2
Yup, I was just wondering this. Seems all you are doing is trading tabs on your taskbar for tabs on the browser.
Why Chrome is awesome:
-Startup time is in-cre-dibly fast. Never seen anything like it before and I’ve used IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
-Javascript execution is much faster than anything before it. I recommend trying Gmail to get a sense of how fast it is.
-The layout is clean, effective and gives the biggest screen area for websites/webapps to date.
-It handles pop-ups brilliantly. Try it and you’ll see.
Why Chrome sucks:
-It doesn’t emulate Opera’s Full-page, proportional zoom feature which is frankly the only non-retarded way to implement zoom in a browser. For this, Google deserves to be slapped repeatedly across the face and spat upon.
-Lack of features such as adblocking,
They’re removed that part of the EULA. Apparently it was a cut’n’paste from Orkut (the SDMB has a similar copyright clause) which they forgot to delete.
Anybody who believes this, please see me regarding a fantastic deal on a bridge in Brooklyn.
I would, but…
I won’t be using it for this reason. Until adblocking and specific imageblocking (as opposed to a simple: show me no images) is available, forget it.
Missed the edit window.
Pleonast, how did you disable the updater if there is no option to disable it?
I’m test driving it right now. I’m cautiously impressed. This came along just after I upgraded FF to FF3 and suddenly lost the ability to print from a webpage (Seriously. I get a lot of email that I need to print for my job, but I don’t need to print all of it, just a part of it. I have always just highlighted the text I want to print and hit print then selection and Bob’s my uncle. Now I get a printed paper full of random text characters. This doesn’t happen with IE or from Notepad), so i decided to try out Chrome. Chrome won’t even give me the option to print just what I’ve highlighted, but it is just a beta and it seems to be a lot faster than the other two. Jury’s still out.
Excuse me? I’m sure you didn’t mean it the way this seems to read.
Read these three cites. Curiously, two of them are the top two results when you search for ‘chrome EULA’.
Then there’s The Register.
Really, it’s been widely reported.
Or you could have bothered to read the updated EULA yourself.
Now, about that bridge…
I’ve been through enough software product releases to know how carefully EULAs and similar items are reviewed. Now, I suppose it’s possible that, as part of the release plan for a product that’s been in planning for two years and has gone through hundreds of thousands of hours of internal tests, that the folks at Google just idly dropped in a halfway edited EULA for some other product and decided it wasn’t worth their time to have a lawyer carefully review it, but I think that’s implausible.
Unfortunately, it is not user friendly. Basically, in XP, I went to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Services and Applications -> Services. Found Google Updater, double-clicked it, and changed Startup Type to Disabled. In Vista, go to the Control Panel, look for Startup Services, and do something similar.
Also, I put an entry in my software firewall (I use Zone Alarm) that disallows Google Updater from accessing the network.
I like applications asking to check for updates. But auto-callers are rude and a security risk.
This is actually the problem. As the articles explain, it wasn’t half-way edited - it was barely edited at all. Try to not attribute something to malice when it can be explained by incompetence. 
I don’t know about IE, but when you have multiple windows of Firefox open they all run under the same process and all crash when one goes down. Chrome sounds as if it will fix this.
I’ll certainly switch to chrome if they add the ability to have all new tabs open as new windows(i don’t use tabs) and get some sort of ad block system.
Well, now that the offending EULA text has been removed, I am back browsing with Chrome. It’s a nice little browser. I particularly like the text box resizing ability. There are a few things that need to be worked out (for instance, the dropdown menus on our names on vBulletin message boards (SDMB included) don’t work properly. I also would like to see some bookmark management and some more UI customization, but one thing is for sure…it’s quite fast, and very clean. I like it so far. I will have to use it for a few days to see if it can supplant Firefox for me, but so far it looks quite nice. After they’ve had a chance to gather info and get a full release done, I’m sure it will be quite the browser. I like the incognito mode as well.
I just downloaded Chrome. I now have 4 browsers on my desktop: IE, Firefox, Flock, and Chrome. I opened Chrome up after install and wasn’t thrilled. I navigate 90% via bookmark and that is still a work in progress. I was much more impressed with Flock upon initial download. For now, Firefox will still be my default browser,but the more competition the better.
How many product launches have you been through where someone accidentally sent out the publicity materials to the entire planet and you had to rush the launch before you were ready?
The publicity materials were sent out what, a day or two early? The EULA’s not quite that last minute, and if they really weren’t ready, they wouldn’t have shipped it.