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How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by forgotAgain »

robocat wrote: post #26
venomsnake wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On a side note the only problem i had with chrome is that you cannot disable disk cache. The problem was easily solved with junctions to /Device/Null for the Cache and MediaCache folder.

Not sure if this is valid but: User Bapabooiee: Well, you guys are in luck (BTW, great work-around, Xenofon), since Chrome now has two startup switches that you can use: --disk-cache-dir and --disk-cache-size Simply close Chrome, right-click your Chrome shortcut, click Properties, and then in the field labeled "Target:", make it look something like this: "...chrome.exe" --disk-cache-dir="CACHE_DIR" --disk-cache-size=…

Thanks! I'm trying it now. The caching directives work. Hopefully this will fix the performance issues I've been seeing with Chrome the past two months.

The issues I'm talking about are constant disk access and freezing the entire machine when I open multiple tabs simultaneously.

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

AutocorrectThis wrote: post #11

There are a lot of caveats to the stats. First, look at the browser marketshare table. Notice how Net Applications shows Chrome only at 16% while the others are close to 40%? Wonder why? Net Applications attempts to measure what individual users are using, while Statcounter tries to measure how much of browsing is done though a particular browser. That is, if you browse 1000 webpages a day and use Chrome, and your gi…

Net Applications count unique daily users, so if you surf all day you'll be counted as exactly the same as your friend who only surfs a little each day. However, you will both be counted 7 times more than someone who only surfs once a week.

So both give weight to more regular web surfers, it's just that Net Applications caps it at the level of daily use.

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by VikingCoder »

jlgreco wrote: post #16

I don't think I could disagree with the author more, and I am coming from the perspective of someone who also bought a pixel. (Actually we agree there, it is the best put together machine I've ever used... more on that later.) I'm not running ChromeOS on my pixel right now. I tried it for a weekend, it wasn't my cup of tea, and I slapped Debian onto it instead. No big surprise there, I have different needs from most…

You're confusing me, honestly. If you have a Windows box, and want to view photos, would you settle for Paint? No, you'd be nuts to.

So when you want to browse pictures from your phone on your Chromebox, upload them to flickr, and the experience is awesome.

When you want to watch some videos on your Chromebox, you watch Netflix Instant Watch, or YouTube, or Google Play Movies, and the experience is awesome.

It's like you're comparing Vanilla Windows to Vanilla Chrome. Why are you tying one arm behind your back, like that? Install some programs on that Windows box, and use the best of the web on your Chromebox.

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by gwgarry »

kijin wrote: post #4

Or rather, how Google plans to rule the consumer computing world. It's been a while since the average Facebook addict really needed a computer anyway, they can all throw their laptops away and switch full-time to phones and tablets and I won't care. But businesses and professionals have different needs. I don't see web apps and NaCl apps replacing Office suites, IDEs, or 3D graphic design tools anytime in the next de…

I also don't see how anyone can trust Google with any of these technologies considering how they have been butchering all of their existing applications or outright shutting them down. Gmail is a shell of itself. Google Docs are a glorified WYSIWYG editor. They drop products like flies. They explicitly state that their job is to get as close to the creepy line as possible and not cross it. This has bad idea written all over it.

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by gwgarry »

willvarfar wrote: post #15
kijin wrote: post #4

Or rather, how Google plans to rule the consumer computing world. It's been a while since the average Facebook addict really needed a computer anyway, they can all throw their laptops away and switch full-time to phones and tablets and I won't care. But businesses and professionals have different needs. I don't see web apps and NaCl apps replacing Office suites, IDEs, or 3D graphic design tools anytime in the next de…

FWIW, the company I work at just moved from a windows+office+outlook setup to google apps. And it just worked. Very smooth migration. Just a random datapoint, not claiming its a trend.

And what do you do when they drop a feature that you really depended on for your business? Say that you get addicted to a certain spreadsheet feature and they drop that. You have built an ad-hoc application that needs that feature. Now what? Do you go and now pay a developer tens of thousands of dollars to develop a custom app to replace the feature?

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by VikingCoder »

kijin wrote: post #4

Or rather, how Google plans to rule the consumer computing world. It's been a while since the average Facebook addict really needed a computer anyway, they can all throw their laptops away and switch full-time to phones and tablets and I won't care. But businesses and professionals have different needs. I don't see web apps and NaCl apps replacing Office suites, IDEs, or 3D graphic design tools anytime in the next de…

Chromebooks are amazing for business, in my experience.

- Collaborating on shared documents in Google Docs is awesome.

- Walk up to a Chromebook that's plugged in to the projector, sign in, and show my Presentation.

- Hangouts for video conferences.

- Chrome Remote Desktop to log in to my desktop when I want to do heavy lifting.

- Two-factor Authentication to protect everything.

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by jonknee »

venomsnake wrote: post #21
deepak-kumar wrote: post #12

I used to be a Firefox fan but not anymore, I made chrome my default browser and I am highly satisfied. Now I use FF just to test while developing things. I love lightness of chrome and have shifted all dev related work to chrome. I wont be surprised if chrome becomes the first choice all the developers in next couple of years.

On a side note the only problem i had with chrome is that you cannot disable disk cache. The problem was easily solved with junctions to /Device/Null for the Cache and MediaCache folder.

You can disable cache though, is that not what you wanted?

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by VikingCoder »

sbuk wrote: post #17
rogerchucker wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Difference: IE was ugly and IE experience was ugly.

I personally find Chrome 'ugly'. Surely 'ugly' is an opinion? Also, I challenge your "IE experience was ugly." comment. Many seem to forget how revolutionary and influential IE 6 is . Google are very much standing on Microsoft shoulders here, like it or not.

> Google are very much standing on Microsoft shoulders here, like it or not.

That's a fine point of view, but I think that it's more accurate to say that Google and Microsoft are standing on the same shoulders.

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by pong_ »

k__ wrote: post #27
claudius wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome (okay, I only looked at Chromium) is ugly, has basically no way to adapt it to one’s needs, runs out of RAM quickly, is slow and needs updating all the time. Not really a difference to IE.

I find it interesting that there are still people out there who think Chrome is ugly. Firefox and Internet Explorer have all bad tab and/or adressbar placement. Or do you just find any browser ugly by definition?

Try to open 100 tabs, first in Chrome, then in Firefox. Chrome doesn't even show the titles and runs quickly out of memory.

Chrome's process model incurs in substantial overhead, opening tens of tabs in a low-spec PC it's a surefire way to freeze the system.

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