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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 claudius »

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

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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?

I’m using Opera, so Firefox and IE are not exactly gold standards of nonugliness to me. The biggest contributor to me finding Chrome ugly is certainly that the tab bar is placed on the top rather than the left (and me being too lazy to search for an appropriate extension to change that).

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

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Post by k__ »

claudius wrote: post #41
k__ wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I’m using Opera, so Firefox and IE are not exactly gold standards of nonugliness to me. The biggest contributor to me finding Chrome ugly is certainly that the tab bar is placed on the top rather than the left (and me being too lazy to search for an appropriate extension to change that).

I see, yeah this is probably nice, I know many people who abuse the tab-feature, because they don't like the bookmarks. (Never had a problem with it, but most people seem to think the bookmarks are "broken")

I like Chrome over FFox and IE BECAUSE of the top-tabs.

Firefox needs more vertical space and Internet Explorer just cripples them beneath the address bar :\

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

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Post by k__ »

pong_ wrote: post #40
k__ wrote: post #27

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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.

I just open more than 10 tabs if I'm searching something. Like opening 20 results, than closing them after I visited every tab and found out that they don't have what I searched for.

Yeah I know. Many of my friends, whos PC usage is 99% browser and nothing else, still get their 8GB RAM full with Chrome only, just because they spam tabs all over the place.

I get crazy if I have too many tabs open for too long, don't know why...

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

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Post by columbo »

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…

This is really off topic, but could you speak to the battery life of the pixel running Debian? What you're describing is exactly what I'd like to do.

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

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Post by sbuk »

VikingCoder wrote: post #38
sbuk wrote: post #17

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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.

Really? I'd suggest that Microsoft development of XMLHTTP and by extension XMLHttpRequest were pretty big developments for the web as we know it today. They certainly enabled Google to produce many of their services that are taken for granted today.

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

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Post by camus »

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 the network is down ?

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

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Post by sbuk »

VikingCoder wrote: post #33
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…

But you wouldn't use Paint. The Windows Photo View and Explorer actually do a more than adequate job. Windows Media Player too does a reasonable job of playing video. Netflix, YouTube and Google Play Movies don't solve the problem of plying my videos. The Mac, modern desktop Linux distos and Windows support the functionality that the OP and you crave out of the box - as do most tables, including the iPad. I just don't see where Chrome OS fits in.

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

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Post by skinnymuch »

VikingCoder wrote: post #33
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 wouldn't use Paint to view pictures on vanilla Windows. You'd use apps far better suited (and already set as default).

I think you still have a point in your comment though.

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