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Re: Chrome for iOS

#71

Post by jfhollingworth » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 8:38 AM UTC

Unless I'm mistaken Nitro is actually enabled as of iOS 5.

Re: Chrome for iOS

#72

Post by Synaesthesia » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 8:49 AM UTC

jfhollingworth wrote: post #71

Unless I'm mistaken Nitro is actually enabled as of iOS 5.

No, sorry it's not, for security reasons. Thus it probably won't be enabled in the future either.

Re: Chrome for iOS

#73

Post by e_proxus » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 9:12 AM UTC

mtgx wrote: post #12

This could be a nice "trojan horse" into the iOS ecosystem. Get Apple users hooked enough on Chrome, that they will want to switch to Android for the "real Chrome experience". I know a lot of people are not using iPhones because they can't live without the Gmail app for Android.

I'm more curious to see if Google, or users, will try to use the Chrome launch on iOS as a wedge into getting Apple to open up the OS to allow alternative defaults than Apple's own.

Re: Chrome for iOS

#74

Post by e_proxus » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 9:16 AM UTC

JBiserkov wrote: post #50

After a few hours of heavy usage: -I had forgotten how AWESOME omnibox is. You can speak to it!! -Safari habits die hard -The only thing I'm missing is the 'Reader' feature.

The lack of an OmniBox is what disturbs me the most about Safari on iOS right now. The most common use case being entering one of the boxes, realizing I don't have the URL in my head and need to search (or vice versa). Also, Chrome's OmniBox let's you search your history at the same time as you search the web and enter URLs... priceless.

Re: Chrome for iOS

#75

Post by e_proxus » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 9:17 AM UTC

dewiz wrote: post #70

finally a solution to open more than 10 tabs. I was quite excited to have a way to open those 30+ news to read while traveling on the underground.... sad news, when I switch tab the browser reload the page and lose the content... wtf! back to safari :(

Safari does that all the time as well.

Re: Chrome for iOS

#76

Post by chris_engel » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 10:35 AM UTC

It doesnt have the reader feature that i like in safari. Fine, I thought - lets get the readability bookmarklet.

Turns out Google Chrome doesn't support bookmarklets... What the hell, Google!

Re: Chrome for iOS

#77

Post by chris_engel » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 10:38 AM UTC

chris_engel wrote: post #76

It doesnt have the reader feature that i like in safari. Fine, I thought - lets get the readability bookmarklet. Turns out Google Chrome doesn't support bookmarklets... What the hell, Google!

Just found out: the bookmarklet works if you manually copy and paste it into the url bar, but not, if you selct it from the bookmarks list...

Re: Chrome for iOS

#78

Post by sgrytoyr » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 11:04 AM UTC

forbes wrote: post #62

I love that it opens tabs behind, unlike Safari. Only thing I don't like is the address bar using up too much room (not disappearing).

Yes, it’s very strange (and annoying) that it doesn’t disappear. With the swipe-to-switch-tabs gesture, there’s even less reason to show it permanently than in Mobile Safari.

Re: Chrome for iOS

#79

Post by mofle » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 11:10 AM UTC

Add this as a bookmark in Mobile Safari to be able to quickly open pages in Chrome:

    javascript:location.protocol='googlechrome'

Re: Chrome for iOS

#80

Post by gcp » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 11:10 AM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #32

abcd_f wrote: post #23

Can't imagine the amount of arm twisting that was involved in getting this into the App Store. Must've really come down to the ultimate "No Google for you" argument.

Eh, I doubt Apple would reject it. IIRC Mozilla already did something similar.

Care to explain?