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post #1 of 227
9/2/08 at 6:06pm
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Originally Posted by CNET
Word surfaced Monday of a Web "comic book" introducing Google Chrome, the search giant's long-rumored open-source browser project. While the illustrations, created by cartoonist Scott McCloud, were not officially announced by Google, they do contain the quotes and likenesses of 19 Google developers.

The detailed, 38-page comic appeared on Google Blogoscoped, which is not an official Google blog. (The link to the comic has been down intermittently.) The book is broken down into five main sections covering stability; speed; search and the user experience, security, and standards.
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It's amazing. I've been using it for a few minutes and the homepage windowed option is quite awesome.

Download here.
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post #2 of 227
9/3/08 at 12:38am
I read through the comic and it certainly sounds pretty awesome. I can't wait for the Mac version.
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post #3 of 227
9/3/08 at 1:55am
a cool tip:
http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/2008...ret-pages.html

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post #4 of 227
9/3/08 at 9:48am
More cool tips and user guide, straight from the horse's mouth :-)
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/features.html

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post #5 of 227
9/3/08 at 2:43pm
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Been using it for a while now, it runs beautifully.

However, youtube doesn't work with it, which is strange since they both are Google owned.

Theres no smooth scrolling option with the middle mouse button.
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post #6 of 227
9/3/08 at 3:37pm
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However, youtube doesn't work with it, which is strange since they both are Google owned.
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No issue on my comp (XP SP3). It does concern me regarding the CPU spike, adding 25-40% extra to the current load

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post #7 of 227
9/3/08 at 3:41pm
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I noticed the CPU spike too... CPU usage hovers around 50%
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post #8 of 227
9/3/08 at 3:41pm
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and i just checked youtube and it works fine now

edit: no it doesn't. it plays for 2 seconds then stops.
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post #9 of 227
9/4/08 at 1:46am
^^quite odd Steve. I really have no issue with youtube, running for hours this evening. CPU spike is killing my comp though, this time when watching streaming news video clips from CNN, amd yahoo News - 100% solid the whole time.

The tip on "seeing" which of chrome processes using what memory and cpu is good, but the information is vague to the point that no real informative action can be deducted from them. Ending 1, 2 processes sometimes made no difference, because they would pop up again within seconds from it.

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post #10 of 227
9/4/08 at 12:13pm
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I decided to put this browser on the shelf until some things are worked out. FF3.0 was working fine anyway.
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post #11 of 227
9/6/08 at 7:18pm
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Originally Posted by Steve@NBF View Post
and i just checked youtube and it works fine now

edit: no it doesn't. it plays for 2 seconds then stops.
The 2 second play issue is actually a bug in flash player (at least in FF). If you still have this problem hit me up and I can find the exe that doesn't have this bug. This problem is "random" however, and restarting the browser usually fixes it. I used to have this problem in both FF 2 and FF 3.
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post #12 of 227
9/6/08 at 10:09pm
I've been using chrome for a couple days now and havent been running into any of these problems. No Youtube issue, no CPU spike issue. Every now and then the whole browser will freeze for about 3-5 seconds and then go back to normal, but thats the only problem I have.
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post #13 of 227
9/6/08 at 11:36pm
Played with it for awhile still like FF3.0 better. Will look at it again after they work on it some more.
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post #14 of 227
9/7/08 at 2:22am
I plan on sticking with Firefox 3 for a while longer too. Adblock is just too good to loose.
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post #15 of 227
9/7/08 at 12:42pm
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I'm excited to see how Google is going to incorporate iGoogle into the browser. That's what I'm really excited for. That and then of course Android.
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post #16 of 227
9/7/08 at 1:25pm
By the way there is already an update available. Just open "About Google" and it will search and update.

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post #17 of 227
9/7/08 at 1:33pm
The lastest update did resolve the issue of cpu spikes for me.

Has anyone noticed the Chrome build components? It is a mix of Mozilla, Apple Webkit, Chrome and Safari!

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post #18 of 227
9/7/08 at 1:42pm
Still CPU usage is higher than current Minefield, for same tasks, same many tabs, same sites in my environment (XP SP3)

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post #19 of 227
9/7/08 at 1:53pm
nope, eating my words - CPU spikes still relevant, at refresh or a link, shot up high and drop down quick

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post #20 of 227
9/7/08 at 3:34pm
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I'll upgrade on my other PC. not my lappy
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