Comments on: Quick Post from Chrome

By: Toni

Toni — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:10:00 +0000

Good call Dan – portable firefox works *mostly* in the work PC. It fails because Javascript needs to be installed (I’ll see about sorting that) and cookies appear blocked, possibly because of Javascript being unavailable. I may try running it off the desktop instead of on the dongle for a little extra speed.

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:03:47 +0000

Well, Chrome has now been killed. Time to try that stand alone browser.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:19:32 +0000

Yeah I saw that on the Reg earlier, meant to update accordingly but shock horror I had some work to do!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:29:15 +0000

Dan – It depends on the user and what they use. I have in the past experienced problem because of heavy JavaScript usage on a few sites I visit and the flash use. The fact is IF something does go wrong the whole browser crashes. With chrome this is almost (apart from that security bug) a thing of the past.

Oh and apparently Google has now changed the EULA, and it was an oversight:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7597699.stm

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:52:28 +0000

Yes, the idea behind them is that they run off of a USB stick for instance, Hopefully this will be of use:

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

By: Toni

Toni — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:39:46 +0000

They seem to have made something in the filing system ‘look’ for specific names. So I can’t install safari because it uses a file called safari.exe. Copying the safari.exe file in another computer and renaming it does work, but other files are obviously affected as it suffers crashes and various bugs.

What do you mean by ‘a standalone’ version? Does it come as a single executable that doesn’t install?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:59:51 +0000

Jay – I thought the comic was great as well, the only thing I couldn’t get over was the fuss about tabs being there own threads. It’s very, very rare that FF crashes on me or struggles but then I very rarely use flash on sites.

Toni – You may have seen already on the Reg but it’s already fallen foul of one problem with WebKit. Safari plugged it a while back but looks like Google haven’t been using the latest version of WebKit. Also have you thought about using standalone applications? You can get a version of FF that works very well?

By: Toni

Toni — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:29:33 +0000

It was good for me at work, in that it slipped under the corporate ‘IE6 ONLY’ protection that prevents me (mostly ;-)) from installing other browsers. And it’s light years ahead of THAT browser.

Just remember it’s a beta, and don’t make secure transactions etc using it – someone will have hacked it in a few days for sure.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:42:22 +0000

I like it. It is marginally faster than FF but it was the really long comic on their website that impressed me about the underlying techs. Its about time tabs were different threads. Anyone who has ever had problems with massive JavaScript apps (such as Digg) or flash apps will know.

I do not like the EULA though. I wonder if that was just a copy past job from a web based service where this is common?

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:56:14 +0000

I completely agree with everything you said there Dan, however I found it no quicker than my Firefox (which is running “no script” “add block plus” and other things in the background). The thumbnails of recently visited sites, and search history, is great! It is what iGoogle (www.google.com/ig) should be like, instead of the horrible thing the have recently released! But the one thing I wish Firefox took from chrome is that lovely fact when you maximize you have such a lovely amount of website on the screen.