RoxStar Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Wow. Excellent minimalistic design. Everything is extremely crisp. Great work, Google! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narfblat Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Google for the win. I like how they're thinking, using the Google search features and data to test a new browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Wow this things phone's home more often than my avatar. Seriously, anyone else running Zone Alarm notice this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 tk102. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 I want my autoscrolling and smooth scrolling! And AdBlock at least! Other than that, this browser rocks my socks off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted September 4, 2008 Author Share Posted September 4, 2008 Wow this things phone's home more often than my avatar. Seriously, anyone else running Zone Alarm notice this? Yeah. While I'm sure this is just a bug, and not them constantly sending info, I have the updater blocked just incase, and instead will just wait for info regarding updates and update it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_hill987 Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 Seen as Google make most if not all of their money through advertising I doubt they will make it easy for anyone making an addblock extension. I haven't tried Chrome yet but I don't think it is a good thing that web devs now have one more browser to test for, it is bad enough as it is without yet another rendering engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 I thought the same thing at first, but the rendering engine in Chrome is WebKit which is used in Safari. My user agent string for Chrome: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.14 Web developers should already be taking into account Safari, though if you ask a Mac user, I'm sure they'd say *should* is the operative word there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 Web developers should already be taking into account Safari, though if you ask a Mac user, I'm sure they'd say *should* is the operative word there. In a perfect world maybe I've grown so accustomed to it though I've installed FireFox on all of my macs as well. Safari is faster (at least on my systems).. but I like FireFox's bells & whistles. Would be nice to have the perks of FireFox with the speed of Safari ChAiNz.2da <--- extension using whore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_hill987 Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 Safari is faster (than firefox) On a Windows system Firefox is no slower than IE after the initial load (and IE cheats by being in memory to start with I bet). Is Safari really that much faster? Is it just because it doesn't do as much (so is smaller) do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 In a perfect world maybe I've grown so accustomed to it though I've installed FireFox on all of my macs as well. Safari is faster (at least on my systems).. but I like FireFox's bells & whistles. Would be nice to have the perks of FireFox with the speed of Safari ChAiNz.2da <--- extension using whore On your system I'd imagine the difference between the two must be night and day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 On a Windows system Firefox is no slower than IE after the initial load (and IE cheats by being in memory to start with I bet). Is Safari really that much faster? Is it just because it doesn't do as much (so is smaller) do you think? On a mac it is.. not sure about the PC version. However, I wouldn't doubt.. as you said.. because of it's small footprint and mac's OSX inherit, non-true 64bit extensions. Mac uses a 32bit base with 64 bit extension as far as some apps goes. I wouldn't doubt it if Safari is one of those 64bit goodies. mac fanboi as I am, and I do lurve my Safari... I just lurve FireFox more edit: Actually, I should take that back. mac architecture is 64bit native, however as far as "true" 64 bit app-wise and Carbon programming (to allow 32bit backward compatibility).. it's still based on 32bit programming. Cocoa has been upped to 64bit which is nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da_man Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 On a Windows system Firefox is no slower than IE after the initial load (and IE cheats by being in memory to start with I bet). Is Safari really that much faster? Is it just because it doesn't do as much (so is smaller) do you think? Pfft...on my laptop, you can't surf the internet with IE unless your willing to spend ten minutes waiting for a page to load. I always use Firefox or Chrome. I don't know why, but it's magically faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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