So I tried out Google Chrome yesterday along with the rest of the 2-3% internet traffic of the day. My initial impressions were clean, snappy, and very beta as far as features go, but a solid experience regardless.
They basically re-architected the browser to provide what they claim is more modern way of how the web should be viewed. This includes better security, memory management, javascript performance (V8), and overall stability. They achieve this through numerous means so instead of re-writing all of that here, just check out their comic – and interesting and “fun” way to learn about technology.
Just like Google app engine, I’m interested in where this goes – along with the TOS and all the other standard privacy talk surrounding Google applications.
Nobody needs Chrome. They conquered corrupt and greedy Firefox developers to put again their mark on everything whats not developed by themselves (like Microsoft-Ogers).
Take care of yerself, Flockers…we need independent GEISTS, not clones.
Cheers,
JUP Benders
You don’t think Chrome’s existence will force the market to be better, bring more innovation?
Thanks, and I’m with you there, clones not so good!
Keeping an open mind about Chrome. Competition does breed excellence.
The best thing Google can do is create a better, faster, more scalable browser for the guys over at Flock to finish. Flock rules all. Its like “Firefox.. completed”. Google dudes—get your stuff running on the Mac (which apparently is hard to do, and thats ok), and then let the Flocksters “Finish” the browser.
If Mozilla n3rds would adopt/innovate with that “process per tab” model and make a more crashproof browser application I’d be stoked, but we haven’t seen that for them. Don’t quote me on this.. but I’ll never drop Flock, it shreds, but it would be nice if the engine underneath was more reliable (And thats not Flock’s fault).
I will try Flock. Looks interesting. But I gotta tell you, I totally dumped FireFox a couple of days after I installed Chrome… FireFox was just NOT performing anymore for me. I’d been a loyal user for… well, I guess since it came out. But it was becoming extremely slow to launch; stopped playing videos (as did MSIE) [both overnight] … and worse, I couldn’t find anything on the web that took care of my issues(?)… So, between Chrome and occasional Safari use (a very solid and dependable browser) I’m set.
That said, I will check out Flock. It seems like a great idea for a browser.
ok wait. chrome and firefox are greedy?
who is ripping off firefox? um flock? i believe flock is 100% firefox technology so if anyone is greedy its the makers of flock. no one needs flock, we have firefox. make an original browser then you have a right to dis another one.
It’s not 100% Firefox technology. A lot of guts underneath such as the rendering engine is Firefox code, that said, there’s a lot to Flock that isn’t Firefox. What flock’s value-add is all the social services, blogging, photo uploading etc.. Rip off would imply that there is a mis-representation of what actually exists.
Flock has contributed to the Mozilla community and still does. As far as “nobody needs Flock”, there are lots of people who use it and love it – that in itself should be enough proof to show that it satisfies a need that doesn’t already exist with other browsers.
looking forward for more information about this. thanks for sharing. Eugene
Hi,
My experience with google chrome was not good. There were lot of crashes and some of the sites (especially, banking sites) were not working properly.
I am new user to Flock and till now i dont have any problem with the browser. Hope it works out to be my default browser in time..
I’ve done lots of research on chrome and the most repeated phrase has been “it’s really fast, but….”. With that said, Flock itself can be really fast. There’s a tweak you have to do that speeds Flock up and since it’s built off of firefox 3, the same tweak works in firefox.
I’ve read in several places how chrome operates, the benefits and the downfalls and even the up with chrome articles mention these same downfalls, i.e. the compatibility issues with some websites, the problems that come with most beta launches, etc.
Flock on the other hand, is out of beta, it’s stable, it runs well and with the tweak in place, it opens well and continues to run well. It has a very high compatibility with firefox addons since these were all written with the firefox core in mind and as has been stated many many times, the simple fact that it keeps you well connected with social networking sites mean that you have a higher quality of internet usage. Instead of spending all your time on facebook or myspace or any of the other major social networking sites, you’re simply connected to them, getting updates immediately.
I’m not saying Flock is perfect, it does tend to use a decent amount of resources, but the amount of ram usage is smaller than both firefox and IE on my computer, the processor is more tied up with it, but what renders is at least as smooth as firefox and much less buggy than IE 8 or from my experiences less buggy than IE 7. Chrome is fast, I’ll give it that, but it’s buggy, very buggy. It’s beta and from the looks of it, will remain in beta for a very long time. It’s how google operates and that just doesn’t work for me.
As for the guy who called Flock a ripoff of firefox, try it. Compare the two and see just how different it really is. Use all the abilities of the browser to their fullest extent and just see the difference for yourself. Yes, I’m a Flock fanboy, I’ll proudly admit to that. It’s won me over with innovations beyond most other applications I’ve come across and because of ability not only to have those innovations in place, but to allow their use effortlessly, that’s not going to change anytime soon. If you use the web for one minute a day, get chrome. If the only thing you intend to do with your browser is go check your email and maybe once in a while go to another site, get chrome, it’s great for short trips. But if you’re looking for a quality experience, the ability to truly connect and do everything you normally do with no effort, I’m asking that you give Flock the chance it deserves to win you over. And remember, anything firefox does, Flock can do better and more reliably.
At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.
What I think they are doing with Chrome (and have been doing with Google toolbar) is actually using the browser in a round-a-bout to track what the user is doing. They are then getting that feedback and using it their algorithm to rank web sites in the search engine. So rankings will be based more on user experience then back links.