Comments on: Google Chrome Stats, Three Months Out

By: xentech

xentech — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:35:32 +0000

What do you expect? Chrome is still a baby, it is a very very young browser. It is still in beta for christ sake.

By: djriel

djriel — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:14:04 +0000

I use chrome, and overall it’s pretty good.

Thin and fast on google’s sites, I use it mainly for my mail since I’m a hosted apps g/a guy.

but it still has enough problems with specific sites that I don’t use it for mainstream browsing.

Right now for example, I have my dedicated gmail app (i like how you can create a launcher for things like gmail) open, but i’m typing and surfing this site in FF.

I used chrome pretty religiously for the first month or so, now have lapsed back into using both, and I’d have to say … more FF than chrome.

I have to admit as a designer, it kinda pisses me off that now instead of having to optimize for 3 browsers (and god knows how many versions of IE) I have to optimize for a 4th browser.. not that I’m bothering for chrome users yet, but I do see it as google laying more work on my table. :(

By: somecallmejosh

somecallmejosh — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:24:39 +0000

@Stevie D

If you really want to know, you can install Google Analytics.

By: Steve Jackman

Steve Jackman — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:17:48 +0000

I have been using Chrome for nearly three months, it is fast and uncluttered, and if your computer crashes, saves the pages you’ve been working on. I had been using FF and IE7, but got fed up with the never ending “Tell Microsoft about this problem”, slow loading and constant interruptions that plague all versions of IE. I don’t have enough confidence in Microsoft to even bother trying IE8.

FF is good, but Chrome is even better, although I miss the some of the conveniences like not having auto fill-ins. Chrome, however is still only in the beta stage and when fully developed will have all this and more.

By: Stevie D

Stevie D — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:15:51 +0000

I have no idea how many visitors to my site are using Chrome, because awstats doesn’t give a tally for them :-( I assume they are lumped in with ‘other’, but I’ve not checked.

By: rizzy

rizzy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:08:43 +0000

Google Chrome sucks so bad. OMG. I installed it and Uninstalled it 3 times. It is such a downgrade from Firefox. And I really think they should remove the Chrome advertising from Youtube, because it will only give bad reputation to Chrome in the long term, which might be hard to repair in the world of so many browsers out there. And one thing I do not understand is why can Google simply not make a browser as good as Firefox when they are the ones that should be the best at it.
Regards: rizzy
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By: somecallmejosh

somecallmejosh — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:18:11 +0000

Chrome would get my vote as favorite new browser, but it just doesn’t seem to do well with AJAX applications. Anyone experiencing a similar situation?

By: awasson

awasson — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:41:21 +0000

I spent a bit of today in Chrome and it is pretty nice. Very quick and super clean UI. It shows how slow some sites really are. I agree with Greg about the web dev toolbar. I use that and Firebug every time I fire up the browser.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:01:56 +0000

I like Chrome … it’s fast and opens fast too. However … I post this comment in Firefox. For me it’s simple … no Foxmarks, web dev toolbar and several other add-ons.

Firefox starts really slow (even with no add-ons) and you have to kill it every now and then as it retains memory. But once Chrome has all the features you expect in a browser and maybe some add-ons, I think it will slow down anyways. Not sure.

It’s great for gmail, steaming radio and development though … but I need a bookmark sync at minimum for me to consider full time usage of it.

By: Josh Catone

Josh Catone — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:07:31 +0000

@Chris: I don’t have a proofer/editor. Explains a lot, eh? ;)

I’ve updated the title of the post to make it more clear, though. Thanks for the suggestion!