http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-chrome-beta.html

Since we first released Google Chrome, the development team has been hard at work improving the stability and overall performance of the browser. In just 100 days, we have reached more than 10 million active users around the world (on all seven continents, no less) and released 14 updates to the product. We're excited to announce that with today's fifteenth release we are taking off the "beta" label!

Let's hope the flash video problems have been fixed - was/is probably my biggest gripe with Chrome.

does it support delicious yet?

massive fail, still can't download files >4gb

Error 8 (net::ERR_FILE_TOO_BIG): Unknown error.

Yet Gmail is in Beta still?

massive fail, still can't download files >4gb

Maybe you should use Vista 64-bit :D













(yes I'm aware it won't help with downloads)

yews getright ;] getright 5.2b inda hous.

I know it's the year 2008 and we should be able to trust a browser, but screw downloading anything over a gig via http/ftp with anything but wget (or equivalent).

Yawn, let me know when they've added extension support. Can't go back to a vanilla browser, now matter how snappy it is :/

Yeah, same. I'll probably swap over to it from Firefox once they get their extensions up and running. Chrome's speed is awesome, but there's still a few extensions I can't go without.

Yet Gmail is in Beta still?

I'm pretty sure Gmail is going be beta for the next 20 years.

Can't go back to a vanilla browser, now matter how snappy it is :/

But it's really snappy!

chrome is everything i want from a browser;
simple and quick

im sticking with it;

You've just described my love making spooky!!

I download large files with my browser all the time in order to test/confirm customer ability to do so from services we manage, not to mention for myself fairly regularly if it's from a service we manage where the link speed is smokin. I'll use wget if it's from some other sloth source though.

Nevertheless, not supporting large files is pretty lame.

Still no friggen mac support!

haha ticman

they still havent fixed the one javascript thing that breaks a site i use everyday

i like chrome in every other way, but til they fix that, fail

wow and still no rss support, great

Still can't middle mouse click to scroll down a page? :/

Yes you can.

yews getright ;] getright 5.2b inda hous.

QFT.
Make it 5.2d and you've got a deal.

I've installed chrome and want it to import my settings from Firefox, it's taken an AGE to do so, the bookmarks was 2 seconds but the search history has taken 10+ mins, is this normal?

I guess it has to cache all the man pr0n searches but surely it should go quicker then this?

Note I've not formatted this laptop for 2 years, so there is bound to be an assload of history to import - shouldn't take this long though, surely??

I've installed chrome and want it to import my settings from Firefox, it's taken an AGE to do so, the bookmarks was 2 seconds but the search history has taken 10+ mins, is this normal?

I had the same prob - left it for like 20 mins and it still hadnt finished so i had to kill it :(

Yeah I killed it and just imported bookmarks, bowser history and passwords.

I must say it's a pretty snappy browser, seems fairly quick to me.

I don't like the fact you don't get the 'quick launch' bar on each tab for example in FF you can middle click on a link and it opens in new tab, rather with chrome you've gotta control-t or hit the new tab thingo and you get the recently used links etc..

Might just take some time to get used to. I'll give it a go I guess :)

ahh there is an option to always show bookmarks bar, too easy :)

Yes you can.

I think you mean...YOU can. I can't.

I had the same prob - left it for like 20 mins and it still hadnt finished so i had to kill it :(

Same here...on 5 of 6 machines/laptops I installed Chrome on I ran into the same problem. The import once the program was launched was OK though.

On the topic of large files I just stuck an 8 gig random file in my htdocs dir to test and firefox seems to be the only browser I have capable of saving it. Flashget classic locks up, opera locks up, IE 7 couldn't even find the file it just says the page cannot be displayed so I'm not sure what's going on there but firefox merrily saves it like any other file.

Granted I don't know what the hell would be 8 gig that you'd download off the internet but this just reinforces how awesome firefox really is.

Still no friggen mac support!

Yah :(

wow and still no rss support, great

It's a browser not an RSS reader.

Theres no Linux Version either.

I don't like the fact you don't get the 'quick launch' bar on each tab for example in FF you can middle click on a link and it opens in new tab, rather with chrome you've gotta control-t or hit the new tab thingo and you get the recently used links etc..

hah, i've been using FF for like 4 years and didn't even know that.. hell yer

I think you mean...YOU can. I can't.

That's too bad then.

Ok, I'll say it: I don't understand the whole "When it has extensions, supports RSS, del.icio.us, blah blah blah - then I'll use it" - why? There's already a browser that does all that. Why would you switch from FF to Chrome, unless you want a minimalistic experience (at least Chrome fills a market hole in that department).

By the time you've added all the s*** that FF has to Chrome, then Chrome will propably have the same sort of response that FF is now.

Flashget classic locks up

Nah it doesn't. I've downloaded large files with it fine. It just completely allocates the file on disk before it starts downloading and the process will stop responding until that's done.

Why would you switch from FF to Chrome, unless you want a minimalistic experience (at least Chrome fills a market hole in that department).

Because it's f***in snappy.

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I just installed it and on first impressions, I'm impressed.

It's just so much faster than IE.

I've been disappointed with IE's speed in Vista but put it down to the fact that the laptop I use is on wireless. I am comparing this to my desktop (XP and IE) and the laptop is definitely slower, but not any more :)

There does seem to be a lack of 'buttons' though :/

Ohhhh it even has spell check in typing a QGL post, sweet.

By the time you've added all the s*** that FF has to Chrome, then Chrome will propably have the same sort of response that FF is now.

Individual tab processes, and it's f***ing snappy.

I just decided to grab the Chromium source for whatever reason:

Source tree = 1.6GB.
To build, you need about 10GB of space.
WTF!?

I just decided to grab the Chromium source for whatever reason:

Source tree = 1.6GB.
To build, you need about 10GB of space.
WTF!?

haha what?! what takes up all the space in source?

webkit maybe