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Considering I never use IE this is annoying. Nice to know it can change.

 

That'll be why then - the default search engine in IE is Live Search.

 

With the scroller on my laptop, I can scroll down but not back up. Strange.

 

Yeah, it's rather annoying.

 

 

 

And to anyone who's about to say that anything we post in Chrome is owned by Google because of what it says in the EULA...

"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."

 

That won't stand up in court in any way shape or form. There's no way they are allowed to do that.

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I can't use it on my laptop because if I try to scroll with the touchpad it goes ultra-fast. Then I installed it at work on my desktop and for some reason it wouldn't import any of my passwords/bookmarks from Firefox. Close on both accounts, but ultimately a fail.

TBH, the only draw for me is the speed. It would be difficult to leave Adblock Plus, Tab Mix Plus and Foxmarks behind.

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Been using for a day so far, and I'm liking it a lot. However, there's a few things I'd like to see changed in it.

 

1) Being able to click the middle mouse button to scroll.

2) To be able to delete most visited sites on tabs (especially when you look at lotsa pr0nz)

3) Better download manager. I started to download something from Rapidshare, I closed that window... And I lost the download too!

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Which features do you use in Safari which aren't available in Firefox?

 

Safari has the incognito feature which FF doesnt have.

 

 

Anyways Chrome jsut proven itself! Tried to book a train ticket from transpennine in opera and FF both wouldnt have it. Tried it in Chrome. BAM. All done.

 

He took the words right out of my mouth.

 

 

At this point, I'm used to using Safari, and it works well for my workflow, so even with that add-on, I doubt I'll really use Firefox as my main browser, though, I do occasionally use it if I need to use some weird windows format that only FF and IE support.

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Jasper Newbie

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I think Chrome might take the world by a storm - and eat into Firefox as well as IE's share of the Browser market. Google has the right vision and in my short experience with it, it's fast and simple. Clean and not to cluttered (like Firefox is without changing it's look - and any browser for that matter) without sacrificing usefullness (like IE7 did, it became harder to use because of features becoming small, and irrelevant buttons (like stop loading)). Looks good and I wonder if Google willpush Chrome enough to be the next big web browser.

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Made no sense to me. Explain?

Probably referring to this

 

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
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Probably referring to this

 

Google on Chrome EULA ontroversy: our Bad, we'll change it.

 

There you have it - sounds sincere. But it's weird because somebody at Google did write this piece of text - or maybe they just copied the EULA from their online applications. But hey - everything you do with a registred account with an American company is stored. Really. All those chats on MSN? Videochats? Audiochats? Every major company offering any service of this kind stores this data for ten years, and if it's stored in America the FBI can view this information at their will - you don't know that. In Belgium, the FBI request quitte a lot conversations done through MSN (that's just an example). Our government only allows the passing of this privacy if it's terrorrism or child porn, so I'm pretty safe (except if you start using the word 'bomb' and 'obama' too much - there are trackers on these).

 

Well, most companies don't mention that on their EULA, though.

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Lol, its the greatness of FireFox, it has everything.

 

No, it doesn't, Firefox is actually pretty barren, it's the community that makes it great with extensions, and it's one reason I really dislike Firefox - it misses too many basic features and relies on you going out and getting an extension

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No, it doesn't, Firefox is actually pretty barren, it's the community that makes it great with extensions, and it's one reason I really dislike Firefox - it misses too many basic features and relies on you going out and getting an extension
It's sort of the point - you create your own browser because everything is customizable. FF3 is actually really lightweight for a full desktop browser (it uses way less CPU/Memory than IE and Chrome), but you can extend it to your liking, and leave out the stuff you don't need.

 

The only shame is that Firefox' Gecko engine isn't as fast as WebKit, but there will probably be big improvements with FF3.1. Google still supports Mozilla with money and code.

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No, it doesn't, Firefox is actually pretty barren, it's the community that makes it great with extensions, and it's one reason I really dislike Firefox - it misses too many basic features and relies on you going out and getting an extension

 

I didn't mean the actual browser, but every time you need something just search for extensions and probably someone has thought of that too. It has endless possibilities.

 

It's hopefully going to be a rabid competition where everyone wins. Except for the browser that loses.

 

And I think the loser will be IE, the anti Microsoft and pro Google sentiment among the general public will give Chrome a good part of the market share.

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And I think the loser will be IE, the anti Microsoft and pro Google sentiment among the general public will give Chrome a good part of the market share.

 

IE? That browser can't 'lose', it's impossible unless the EU actually succeds in stopping MS from bundling it within Windows. The majority of Windows users won't even know Chrome exists, just like they know nothing of Firefox or Opera.

IE will lose in the enthusiast market, but there's no way it'll lose overall

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IE? That browser can't 'lose', it's impossible unless the EU actually succeds in stopping MS from bundling it within Windows. The majority of Windows users won't even know Chrome exists, just like they know nothing of Firefox or Opera.

IE will lose in the enthusiast market, but there's no way it'll lose overall

 

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/09/04/august-2008-ie-loses-more-users-to-firefox-safari-opera

 

20% market share for FireFox alone, isn't a small slice made of enthusiasts only. This things take time, and with Google's funding and advertising I can see IE losing even more.

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They'll lose out more, but they'll still have majority share. I seriously doubt even Google can push IE below the 50% mark.

 

By 'IE will lose out to enthusiasts' i was refering to the low number of people in communities like this that still use IE. Most of us use Firefox, Opera or Safari and some will migrate to Chrome. The majority of us DON'T use IE, but the majority of Windows users DO. As a result it stands to reason that we make up a significant portion of that 25% non-IE share of the market and thus the number of people outside of the enthusiast market don't use IE is actually a lot lower than 25%.

 

It's more likely to be Firefox that looses share than IE, most Firefox users are aware of the browser choices that they have wheras most IE users aren't or are too scared to migrate.

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