They got me hooked real early. At the start I often had to switch back, had a lot of the audio video problems you mentioned but that hasn't been an issue in months. Moments that I don't get what I need from Chrome are pretty rare these days and anytime I switch back the difference between Chrome and Firefox feels like Broadband compared to Dial Up. I look forward to support for extensions but with the flexibility of their toolbar it hasn't been that big of deal. I would really like to have the "measureit" extension that FF has.
Looking forward to seeing what Chrome brings to the table in the future.
Viralwordpress
· 8 months ago
Zach,
They got me hooked early on too. But no I use the Flock Social Media Browser. Far more advanced than chrome.
Willem Kossen
· 12 months ago
And the answer is yes, I'm one of those chrome users. I use it for almost all my browsing needs because of the one killing feature, speed. I'ld love some extensions, add-ons, plugins etc, but I would not want to loose the speed. Before Chrome I used K-meleon because of the same reason. Chrome is faster than that....
I have used safari, lynx, Mozilla, netscape, opera, IE (up to 7), konqueror k-meleon and chrome and chrome is the one that wins.
Ralph
· 12 months ago
I'm also a Chrome user because of the speed. The only real problem that I've run into is when I go to sites that utilize MS Silverlight. There seems to be a layering problem on many of these Silverlight applications. I use a site called www.TabUp.com a lot and find that I keep switching back and forth between Firefox and Chrome. It's a Java rich site, which does really well in Chrome and nicely in Firefox, but the silverlight photo album has this layering problem in Chrome. The most troublesome sites that I've run into using Chrome are actual some of the Google applications not rendering correctly in Chrome - haven't tried them in the final release yet.
Sheraz Mahmood
· 12 months ago
I am one of those chrome users as well. The speed is perfect: Mozilla is now slow and IE is unbearable. The simple point of making desktop links has made life easier when I'm working with non-tech-savvy users.Layout of the browser, also makes it easier on my eyes, and pop-up blocker is perfect.
Kevin
· 12 months ago
I use Chrome rarely to view pages that I want to load quickly, but the lack of add-ons is a huge issue for me, as you addressed. I'll be interested to see how Chrome maintains its stability and speed when that feature is added - not to mention how long it will take developers to get the add-ons made.
Also, my home computer has bugs, so this might just be me, but more than a dozen times Chrome couldn't open Gmail...
Besides the speed, there is nothing that sets Chrome apart, IMHO, but there is a lot of potential.
Ã…ke Nygren
· 12 months ago
I love the speed of Chrome (FX drives me crazy these days...) but there are some issues with RSS. Google Reader simply doesn´t take most of the RSS feeds I try to add. I need to swap to Firefox most of the times. Which is kind of weird. How come Google´s own services work better in FX than in Chrome??
Tschai
· 12 months ago
It was fast when I used it at first and I was surely impressed.
But it did kinda mess up my forum. If that's fixed I'm sold...
Marco
· 12 months ago
RSS Feed integration with Google Reader! I always need to open firefox to add an rss feed to my reader...
Matt Soreco
· 12 months ago
User? No. Tryer? Yes.
I wonder how many of these 10 million just simply kicked the tires like me.
For me, the lack of integration of their toolbar, and more importantly their Bookmarks, is why I won't use it regularly.
I think a lot just "kicked the tires," as on our site and others the % of people using it has dipped since launch, but we actually saw a slight increase in users in the past month versus the previous, so, I think it has found its base and is starting to grow.
Ericds
· 12 months ago
i keep hearing people say, " I wish chrome utilized the Google toolbar". have you studied chrome? It IS the Google toolbar. The features of the toolbar such as prefetching, instant suggestions, and quick bookmarking are all built into Chrome, you just don't have to see an extra toolbar. don't try to install and accelerometer or toolbar onto Chrome - it will make it go slower - these features from Google are already built in to Chrome.
BCK
· 12 months ago
I tend to use it on my netbook for its speed and minimal UI. Also tend to use it at times on the laptop simply because it is more snappy than Firefox (hate waiting for Firefox to load). I might move more towards it when it gets addons and compatibility with Linux, but for now my main browser still remains Firefox.
Peter Quirk
· 12 months ago
The speed is a direct function of not having an extension model. Watch it slow down as extensions become available and people have multiple tabs open on active web 2.0 pages. IE and Firefox are suffering from the large number browser helper objects, plugins, toolbar extensions and other stuff that people cram into browsers. I think I have over 30 in my IE browser. Sun's crappy JVM with its lousy memory manager doesn't help IE & FF either.
Adam Ostrow
· 12 months ago
good point ... will definitely be interesting to do a speed comparison once extensions are added to Chrome
Phy
· 12 months ago
yep. i've been using it as my main browser for a while now. it lean and fast. but when it comes to serious browsing, i have to admit firefox is my number one.
John Van Dinther
· 12 months ago
The port over to Mac is my big hang-up. I swap over to XP occasionally, but 90% of my work is on OSX. Once Chrome makes the leap I'll never go back.
JeremyC
· 12 months ago
When Chrome stops thrashing my hard drive every time it starts and when they remove the always resident process GoogleUpdater.exe...only then will I consider using it. Firefox 3.1 will have a javascript engine comparable to to the speed of chrome's, so I can wait. Also, say what you want about blocking in-page ads, but I can't use the internet without the Adblock extension.
Ericds
· 12 months ago
in chrome go to Options > Under the Hood > Privacy > uncheck "Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page loading performance"
this will stpp the hard drive thrashing
Wolfman-K
· 12 months ago
I't my main browser on my work pc, a windows machine. Personally I use Macs and I'm frustrated that I can't use chrome.
It's just fast, and on my work pc where the number of sites I go to is fairly limited (mostly internal) the star page that saves you most popular 9 visits is a god send. And sure I could replicate that on firefox with an add on, but by the time firefox boots up, with chrome I have already logged into my company web mail and responded to several emails.
So I'm a part time Chrome users, would be full time if they'd ever release the Mac version.
Anrkist
· 12 months ago
Audio/Video problems??? If anything the whole Firefox/Flv is a problem... not everyone has an issue but after upgrading to Flash 10, I still get frequent skips in my video.
David
· 12 months ago
I recommend it to all my friends. It's fast and secure. Nuff said.
Mark
· 12 months ago
Yes, why no Mac version? I thought Google was high on Macs. Waiting for Chrome!
>> imodotcom
· 12 months ago
I use Chrome on my Laptop when I in 'Break' or Demo mode at Starbucks. It is quick!
Else, I am hooked onto FireFox and its Extensions in all their glory.
- - - imodotcom - -
claye
· 12 months ago
I'm a Chrome user, but I don't think it needs anything - I use it because of speed, and use Firefox when I need plugin/addon features. Fatten it up with addons and features, and it loses it's value, I'd rather use FF.
If they ever do addons though, they only have to make an addon or feature that accepts FF addons, and they're set.
Chris @ tv on the web
· 12 months ago
I'm not yet, and I've held off because of the lack of support for Chrome that you mention. I'm really just hitting a stride with firefox and playing around with extensions and apps.
Martin
· 12 months ago
As soon as Chrome doesn't force their interface on me and lets me use my windows classic interface I'll be a user. So long as they feel they know what I want more than I do, I'll refrain.
Chris Winn
· 12 months ago
As a college student, it's hard to use Chrome. Accessing things classroom programs like Blackboard and WebCT don't work too well. And as everyone knows the multimedia end of Chrome isn't the greatest. But for personal surfing, and everyday use Chrome is my go to browser. Integrating the Google features, like Docs & Reader would be huge. Maybe an optional toolbar?
Prithvi Raj
· 12 months ago
Well all I need in my Chrome is a StumbleUpon toolbar. If that is set then I guess i wont be needing Firefor,Safari.etc.
its me
· 12 months ago
@david: did you really say secure?! fast allright, but secure? you mean cause there're no exploits yet? thats only a matter of months if not weeks. and once there are extensions both speed and security are down to FF again. I only tested it in a vm and didn't like it very much, so no, I'm not a chrome user (not even the more private version, self-build chromium).
Matty
· 12 months ago
I would try chrome if it was mac/linux compatible... My only access to an XP machine is at work and I am not allowed to install software here.
Eric
· 12 months ago
I want a Mac version! I use safari, firefox, and camino.
Cynthia
· 12 months ago
Does anyone else find that Chrome is perfect for opening a ridiculously high number of windows? Sometimes I'm researching a topic, and I'll have at least 30 windows open. I would then move all the windows I still use to the left, right click one of the tabs, then "close tabs to the right." Really beautiful stuff.
Only thing I hate is that it's like surfing the internet without protection. You're exposed to everything from multiple adsense blocks to flashy credit ads. Unless there's ad-blocking built in somewhere in Chrome (doubt it).
Snyggast
· 12 months ago
Tried it once. I use ebay and paypal on a daily basis, not to mention trading and online banking. So no. Google already knows more than enough about me.
deepikaur
· 11 months ago
Been a dedicated Chrome user since day 1. I was never really a big add-on person, had maybe, at the most, five in Firefox, so it wasn't difficult to switch over. But Chrome has made me realize how slow Firefox was before, for I did have to open it due to some complications with Chrome. And IE was absolutely unbearable.
hydir
· 11 months ago
I am Chrome addict right now! The most important thing when we are surf the internet is speed and Chrome done it perfectly.
Sometimes it will crash like hell and I've just have to uninstall everything (even remove the root folder) before installed it again. Problem solve but I can bear with it as this is just a beta version ..
Can't wait for a full fledge Chrome browsers around! Thumbs up!
casey
· 11 months ago
1) Tried the beta version of Chrome, went back to Firefox. Was lacking some essential features like the favorites management. 2) Tried again Chrome out of beta, and now definitely switched from Firefox to Chrome: - incredibly fast (loading the browser, loading the pages - very important point since I'm using 5 years old computers), - maximized browsing space on the screen, - very quick access to the favorites with the favs toolbar, - nice search feature within the address bar, - nice layout of the browser, - nice shortcut to applications (with maximized browsing space!), - does only what a browser has to to and nothing more. For me, the best one out of FF, IE, Opera, Safari, Mozilla, Netscape, Konqueror. No way back.
Ericds
· 11 months ago
finally someone tried it after it went out of beta, and recognized that a browser doesn't need 12 toolbars to be amazing
Jason Barone
· 10 months ago
anonymous
· 9 months ago
anyone using chrome is an idiot.. this browser hasn't been out of its beta stage, from the vigrous tests i performed on this crap.. it's an unstable alpha in my book
here's what you should be using: windows(all versions):k-meleon mac: shiira linux: galeon or epiphany (according to your desktop)
chrome is an unpolished product with its comical interface it should only appeal to teenagers. blondes or ladyboys.. if you use it, maybe you're one of those?(deep inside..you queer)
Willem Kossen
· 9 months ago
Well, anonymous previous poster, Thank you for your nice comments.
I am still using the Chrome browser and am very happy with it. It's more stable than IE(anyversion) or Firefox. It's also faster and most sites actually work.
It's unpolished and that's good. Polishing apps makes them unstable, user-unfriendly and bulky. The interface is clean rather than childish.
I guess you posted this comment to get attention, hey, you got it!.
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Looking forward to seeing what Chrome brings to the table in the future.
They got me hooked early on too. But no I use the Flock Social Media Browser.
Far more advanced than chrome.
I have used safari, lynx, Mozilla, netscape, opera, IE (up to 7), konqueror k-meleon and chrome and chrome is the one that wins.
The most troublesome sites that I've run into using Chrome are actual some of the Google applications not rendering correctly in Chrome - haven't tried them in the final release yet.
Also, my home computer has bugs, so this might just be me, but more than a dozen times Chrome couldn't open Gmail...
Besides the speed, there is nothing that sets Chrome apart, IMHO, but there is a lot of potential.
But it did kinda mess up my forum. If that's fixed I'm sold...
I wonder how many of these 10 million just simply kicked the tires like me.
For me, the lack of integration of their toolbar, and more importantly their Bookmarks, is why I won't use it regularly.
I posted more about it on my blog:
http://soreco.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-chrom...
this will stpp the hard drive thrashing
It's just fast, and on my work pc where the number of sites I go to is fairly limited (mostly internal) the star page that saves you most popular 9 visits is a god send. And sure I could replicate that on firefox with an add on, but by the time firefox boots up, with chrome I have already logged into my company web mail and responded to several emails.
So I'm a part time Chrome users, would be full time if they'd ever release the Mac version.
Else, I am hooked onto FireFox and its Extensions in all their glory.
- - - imodotcom - -
If they ever do addons though, they only have to make an addon or feature that accepts FF addons, and they're set.
I only tested it in a vm and didn't like it very much, so no, I'm not a chrome user (not even the more private version, self-build chromium).
Only thing I hate is that it's like surfing the internet without protection. You're exposed to everything from multiple adsense blocks to flashy credit ads. Unless there's ad-blocking built in somewhere in Chrome (doubt it).
Sometimes it will crash like hell and I've just have to uninstall everything (even remove the root folder) before installed it again. Problem solve but I can bear with it as this is just a beta version ..
Can't wait for a full fledge Chrome browsers around! Thumbs up!
2) Tried again Chrome out of beta, and now definitely switched from Firefox to Chrome:
- incredibly fast (loading the browser, loading the pages - very important point since I'm using 5 years old computers),
- maximized browsing space on the screen,
- very quick access to the favorites with the favs toolbar,
- nice search feature within the address bar,
- nice layout of the browser,
- nice shortcut to applications (with maximized browsing space!),
- does only what a browser has to to and nothing more.
For me, the best one out of FF, IE, Opera, Safari, Mozilla, Netscape, Konqueror. No way back.
here's what you should be using:
windows(all versions):k-meleon
mac: shiira
linux: galeon or epiphany (according to your desktop)
chrome is an unpolished product with its comical interface it should only appeal to teenagers. blondes or ladyboys.. if you use it, maybe you're one of those?(deep inside..you queer)
I am still using the Chrome browser and am very happy with it. It's more stable than IE(anyversion) or Firefox. It's also faster and most sites actually work.
It's unpolished and that's good. Polishing apps makes them unstable, user-unfriendly and bulky. The interface is clean rather than childish.
I guess you posted this comment to get attention, hey, you got it!.
Cheers!
Just because Chrome is ultra great.