Chrome Browser

[TPMdm]

Anybody tried it? After some initial installation hiccups and a bit of a bother getting ads blocked I find I'm slowly beginning to enjoy it. It is pretty fast, the page display properly and efficiently, but there are one or two minor annoyances I'm finding with it.

I prefer middle clicking to open link in a new tab instead of the right click-select. I also think the options settings are too dumbed down although there is some power there. Additionally the configuration options are in a tabbed window, but on at least one of the tabs you need to scroll. IMO if you have a tabbed window all the options for that tab (radio buttons, selection boxes, whatever) should all be on that one window.

[jschild]

I personally love it, much faster than the rest for me, and I like the start page and not having to go to a search site to search google.

[surodat]

it needs a noscript-like addon. anyone seen one?

[TPMdm]

The closest thing I've found to any kind of add-on for chrome is using privoxy as a proxy server (nukes ads).

The more I use it the more the middle click behavior bothers me. I'm so used to middle click opening a link in a new tab it is distracting not to have this feature.

I agree though it is fast, so fat I need to be careful with my scrolling. I also like the spartan application window, I'm trying to find a firefox theme that is as clean.

[AkuuDima]

I personally love it, much faster than the rest for me, and I like the start page and not having to go to a search site to search google.

Youknow there are addons/toolbars for firefox to allow you to directly search in google without going to the site manually.

Also, Chrome is not a addon based browser. Not yet at least. It's much like an improved IE, if you will. What makes FFox so popoular is it's highly customized, fast yet safe browsing experience. /ffoxfan

[jschild]

I hate toolbars cluttering up my screen. I also don't need 5000 frills or addons for surfing. I "know" i can get the functionality, i just like the speed and simplicity right out of the box. Plus the initial screen rocks.

Firefox is my second fav, but until it speed (out of the box, no tweaking) matches Chrome, I'll stick with Chrome. It just suits me better.

[TPMdm]

I agree with jschild on this, but the middle click is taking a bit too long for me to get used to. I really want to open a link in a new tab with middle click. Any idea how to do it with chrome?

[surodat]

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=2ac48d48b3656b67&hl=en

[TPMdm]

I have the newest version and my middle click still brings up the rapid scroll (redundant considering the speed of the browser). My version is probably newer than the version they were using in that link.

[surodat]

Are you sure it's not your mouse software that's bringing that up? Or something? Because there is no rapid scroll anywhere I middle click.

[TPMdm]

no, I'm not sure lol. I know when I middle click (middle button *is* the wheel) on a link in Firefox it opens the link in a new tab. When I middle click on "open space" I get an up and down rapid scroll. In chrome regardless of where I middle click I get a multi directional rapid scroll.