Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Sep 2009 22:21 UTC
Only a year after Google's Chrome entered the browser market, we're already hitting version 3. While Chrome 3 had been available in the developer and beta channels for a while now, the company has now released the first stable Chrome 3 version. Technically, this means Chrome 3 has been released.
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RE: I don't see what the fuss is all about
by MechR on Wed 16th Sep 2009 02:03
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Member since:2006-01-11
Faster cold-start, mostly.
Feature-wise it's gradually catching up. The main things I miss are RSS live bookmarks, and right-click image -> Properties:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=9278
(FYI, Flashblock is available in userscript form.)
I also wish the Stop button were more sanely-placed, but that's a wontfix unless/until they add toolbar customization.
A more difficult issue is this Webkit bug with text-selection behavior at the borders of text fields:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12593
Edited 2009-09-16 02:04 UTC
RE[2]: I don't see what the fuss is all about
by nt_jerkface on Wed 16th Sep 2009 05:07
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Member since:2009-08-26
RE: I don't see what the fuss is all about
by phoenix on Wed 16th Sep 2009 16:54
in reply to "I don't see what the fuss is all about"
Member since:2005-07-11
Otherwise, give me a good reason to switch to Chrome.
Only you can decide if it's worth switching, and the only to figure that out is to try it (use it exclusively) for at least a week.
Personally, I find it to be a good companion browser to Firefox. Firefox is good for casual browsing, but even 3.5 feels slow on Javascript-heavy sites.
For Javascript-heavy sites (like out Zimbra webmail, or GMail) Chrome/Chromium is awesome. It's also nice that the UI is minimilistic so that almost the entire screen is available for website content, without having to use full-screen mode.
It's also nice that that it ships with all the features I need in a browser, whereas I have to add a handful of extensions to Firefox to make it work the way I want.
The only thing that's missing from Chrome/Chromium is XMarks support for bookmark/password sync with FF/IE/Safari.
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2006-07-16
I've played around with Chrome off and on during its various releases (and I'll try 3 too) and honestly, I just don't get what all the fuss is about. I like my trusty Firefox, which is improving with each release. I'm sure others find their preferred browsers (i.e., Opera, Safari, even IE) to be just fine as well. Is it because Google is behind Chrome that makes is "special"? Otherwise, give me a good reason to switch to Chrome.