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  Shane

  10 months ago

  The good ol days were funny when people thought Netscape the browser and Netscape the site were one and the same. Most people who use IE will never ever ever ever ever use the features that Firefox brings. Now having said that I think Chrome would make an excellent alternative to people that are less computer literate. The biggest problem is that a lot of computer illiterate people do not know how to change their homepage so you can bet they will never take the time to download Chrome.
  
  I do feel that if they are shown they will like the how light-weight and fast it is. I love my wife to death so I say this with love and compassion. She is one of those computer illiterate people who opens new sessions of IE7 instead of using the tabs. It is highly unlikely that I will ever get her to use Chrome although I am making it my browser of choice. I just wrote this comment in it. The funniest thing is that I taught my son to use the Avant browser when was 5 so there is hope in the world.
  
  Browser: Someone in a department store with no money who is looking for the next big trend in shopping (circa. 1984)
  
  Shane
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  Jonathan

  10 months ago

  I'm sitting on the fence, gathering splinters, too. I've installed Chrome on my XP box, but nowhere else as of yet. It seems to be working fine so far - although there are obvious missing interface elements at this stage (bookmarks are a good example).
  
  On the Mac I still use Safari almost exclusively - mainly because it's so damn fast compared to anything else.
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  James

  10 months ago

  you hit this on the head--i was telling some at work about the new Google chrome browser, and there response was "--great to hear Google improved I hate Yahoo search results..." I inquired further to realize there were using IE 4 and did not know they could change the default search engine. Scray...and possibly typical. Personally Chrome looks nice, but I am not switching from FF any time soon....
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  Cherish

  5 months ago

  I use Chrome sometimes. Why? It's fast. I'll give google that. On my slow b of a computer, it starts up in a second.
  
  That's about the only good thing about it, though. I admit I also like the fact that you can "drag" tabs off the browser to create a new window, but I don't use that much and personally, it's not worth it.
  
  The arrangment of history sucks, as does the lack of toolbar. At first I thought it was really cool and sleek. Until I began using it. Ugh. You have to open a new tab to see your history, which comes up like a webpage, and even then it's only "most visited" and "recently closed tabs". No easy, convienent way to see that page you visited yesterday.
  
  Plus, the browser appears to be bipolar. I visited google.com, and GOOGLE's browser informs me that "this site may contain malware". O.K then. I click "I understand that this may harm my computer, blah, blah" and then "countinue".
  
  It closes the tab without prompt or permission and I have to open a new one and type google.com again to go on.
  It wouldn't be so annoying if it didn't happen so damn often.
  
  Plus, when it's not being super-fast it's being retarted. I click on a link and wait for it to load. And wait. And wait.
  
  The browser informs me that "This webpage is not responding. Kill or wait?" I click wait. It doesn't load after 5 min., so I close it and go onto another website. The same thing happens, and countinues to happen until I close the browser and open it again.
  
  I'm sticking to firefox - Google has disappointed me.
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