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[Yegolev]

What you said, plus I use NoScript.  Seems unlikely that I could use an addon which blocks scripts from google-analytics.com with Chrome at any future point.

[Trippy]

And, in a surprising move, Google Chrome is now out of beta (hey, it's Google, after all :P).

It's more "political" than anything. I.e. some companies won't standardize on "beta" products, which was a problem with Chrome so the easy fix is to stop calling it a beta.

[Tale]

Chrome is my default browser, because it launches fast when I click on something from an email/elsewhere. But Firefox is the browser I spend most time in.

[Yegolev]

Chrome is my default browser, because it launches fast when I click on something from an email/elsewhere.

Does this sound slightly dangerous?  I don't know how insecure Chrome is.

[Viin]

If you are using Gmail they already know everything about you. 

[Yegolev]

Oh, I meant dangerous as in "remote code execution" way, not a "gubment is steeling my fluids" way.

[sidereal]

Chrome is specifically designed to make hackery hard.  You didn't read the comic book/instruction manual.

[Yegolev]

I read it, I just didn't take it as fact.  Maybe I'm a tad cynical.

[stray]

As cynical as I am gay.

[Yegolev]

Oh, damn, I'm going to have to call my therapist today.

[Prospero]

Type "about:internets" in Chrome's address bar. 

[Sky]

RIIIISE!

OSX beta is out now.

[MrHat]

RIIIISE!

OSX beta is out now.

Was just coming to post that.

Extentions went official on the Windows and Linux Chrome too.

None for mac yet.

[MahrinSkel]

My kids think using Chrome in paranoid mode will keep me from keeping track of what pages they hit.  Me and my Ubuntu gateway think that's funny.  Not that I actually look at those logs, but that they think they can use tricks they learned from their friends at school to out-geek a "War Games" era hacker brat is a giggle.

--Dave

[naum]

RIIIISE!

OSX beta is out now.

Was just coming to post that.

Extentions went official on the Windows and Linux Chrome too.

None for mac yet.

Been using Chromium (Chrome without the auto-update installer) developer releases on Mac for sometime now and it has supplanted Firefox as my #1 browser. Snappier and stabler.

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/

[Prospero]

Now that's a snappy browser.

[caladein]

Chrome extensions are awesome.  Google Mail Checker and Reader, Wave, and Voice Notifiers essentially function as PermaTabs would in Firefox and there's no performance loss I can see.

The one I'd recommend without hesitation though is QuickScroll.  It doesn't seem like much, but it's damn useful.

[Sky]

So far my only gripe about chrome is that it flips 'open in new window' and 'open in new tab' from the firefox positions. Muscle memory and all that, keep opening new windows, dernit.

[ghost]

Is there any integrated functions with delicious?  That is my biggest issue so far-  I use a lot of different computers and like to be able to not worry about my bookmarks.

[caladein]

Is there any integrated functions with delicious?  That is my biggest issue so far-  I use a lot of different computers and like to be able to not worry about my bookmarks.

There's a couple of Delicious extensions although nothing that seems more useful than the bookmarklet so far.

If you're just using Chrome, there's Bookmark Sync which is pretty straightforward.

[BitWarrior]

I read it, I just didn't take it as fact.  Maybe I'm a tad cynical.

Chrome is the most secure browser available today.

[JWIV]

Is there any integrated functions with delicious?  That is my biggest issue so far-  I use a lot of different computers and like to be able to not worry about my bookmarks.

There's a couple of Delicious extensions although nothing that seems more useful than the bookmarklet so far.

If you're just using Chrome, there's Bookmark Sync which is pretty straightforward.

I've become a big fan of Xmarks, which is supported by both Chrome and Firefox.

[HaemishM]

Tried the beta with the extensions. I've been using Xmarks with Firefox for a while now, so when I saw it had an Xmarks extension, I immediately switched to the Chrome beta. Had to switch back this morning, as some sites cookies apparently do not agree with Chrome.

[Soln]

I read it, I just didn't take it as fact.  Maybe I'm a tad cynical.

Chrome is the most secure browser available today.

I'd say Safari is safer on OSX.  And faster.

[Trippy]

I read it, I just didn't take it as fact.  Maybe I'm a tad cynical.

Chrome is the most secure browser available today.

I'd say Safari is safer on OSX.  And faster.

Or it was the fastest to be exploited at Pwn2Own this year

[Soln]

truly?   

[BitWarrior]

truly?   

Read the article for yourself?

[Soln]

nope, my fail.  Carry on.

[Trippy]

Mac OS X's "security advantage" over Windows is mostly just "security by obscurity". The OS itself lags considerably behind Windows in terms of implementing security features. It wasn't until Snow Leopard that Mac OS X added their version of Data Execution Prevention which Windows has had for many years and OS X still hasn't implemented Address Space Layout Randomization (they are working on it).

[KallDrexx]

I'd say Safari is safer on OSX.  And faster.

Security comments aside, faster is not true either about Safari.

My brother runs chrome through parallels (on Win7) because he says he can tell that chrome is being that much faster than safari.

Anecdotal, yes but he's been using windows chrome on his mac for the past 3+ months.

[Prospero]

I just did a quick test between Safari and Chrome using the very Javascript heavy app I'm developing. Chrome loaded it in less than half the time.

[MahrinSkel]

Now that it plays nice with Sandboxie, Chrome on Sandboxie is what I use to browse sites I consider dodgy (hacking sites, anything hosted in China or Russia, casual games sites).  I realize that means I'm running about 3 virtual machines deep, but I've got the horsepower for it and I really don't like having my computer zombified.

--Dave

[ghost]

I don't know about the security, but I have found Chrome on OSX to be noticeably faster than the other two mainstream mac browsers.

[BitWarrior]

Just to mention, as this is a gaming crowd, if you have something like a quad-core processor you'd be insane *not* to use Chrome. Chrome places each tab as its own thread (you can ctrl+alt+del to see this in action in Windows). This means the application immediately gains the benefit of a multi-core processor as each tab could be allocated to its own core. Most applications and such don't leverage the quad-core nature of the latest and greatest cpu's, but Chrome certainly can. You'll definitely notice some very nice improvements in speed. Something to think about!

[naum]

I just did a quick test between Safari and Chrome using the very Javascript heavy app I'm developing. Chrome loaded it in less than half the time.

/yes, it really evident on AJAX heavy pages — google.com/reader for instance, where Chrom(e|ium) easily handles my 1600+ feeds. Firefox has improved in recent releases, but still plagued by memory leaks. Safari does OK but not as snappy as Chrom(e|ium).