Ok at the moment chrome does most of what firefox does at the moment but not much difference. I found a button in chrome that does something awesome.
What that says is “Create application shotcuts”. No its not a funny way to say bookmark it to the desktop. Its the exact same idea as mozilla prism. Its a website acting like an application on the computer. So it adds a menu shortcut or desktop shortcut to run the website like an application.
Then it runs in a window with just webkit.
It is a nice feature and it adds the menu shortcuts itself witch is great too. I didnt notice it before and in truth its not the most special feature but it is good that they thought outside the box when it comes to the web becoming more application like. The lines really do blur when you start seeing google docs like an application on your computer.
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Ok i get it but that doesn’t make chrome like firefox
What about Firefox Addons an oceanic library of addons all useful and wonderful?
The proxy changing addons in firefox i’ve been using for long to switch are one of its best.
Firefox has been loyal to open source for a long time when Chrome wasn’t even born and
Google was a little name.
Chrome being a Google product will am sure connect Google to you giving Google a direct
access to every user.
Infact you know Google knows more about us than our governments or others.
Firefox Rules and will rule
Sorry if i was a bit too harsh but i am a die hard fan of firefox
We all love firefox but in terms of UI its starting to be left behind. It uses the old netscape look which is very outdated. Chrome is a lot easier to use because its a rethink of the current browser systems. Us open source people are really lucky to have such competition now.
wrong, the minimum ui sucks, and is driving the path to other browsers emulating it.
if you are going to replace the menubar do it with something thats been given some thought, not 2 random buttons with no labels. something like ribbon or ubiquity instead of the menu.
I think its a matter of taste. Me I dislike clutter on my screen I just like to open the browser and have something simple. Firefox, IE and safari all have large enough menus, status bars and bookmarks bars and they take up a lot of screen space. Chrome is the only browser around that is simple to look at.
I agree. Chromium gives the webpage more screen space. Remember, Google designed it to be more of a web platform than a conventional internet browser. With this view, GMail or Facebook are the applications, not Google Chrome. I’m sure that was one of the reasons for the faster JavaScript engine. This view is also even more apparent in the new Chromium OS, in which there are no conventional applications, just web apps and the Cloud. For this, giving the webpage maximum screen space is paramount.
“2 random buttons with no labels”
Specific to the current page (piece of paper) and other tools specific to the browser itself (a wrench, literally a tool). What’s so random about that?
I started packaging up a few .desktop files so that you could just apt-get install one package and have all their apps “installed” for you:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~jorge/+archive/ppa
https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~jorge/+junk/chromium-google-apps
I did tasks and mail but ran out of time, if you want to finish them off that would be great!
Well I wont have time before the end of December, im doing some work on lernid, quickly and the software center this month but ill be free after that to help out jorge
I never thought of that as a ‘hidden’ feature, it was quite an obvious Gears feature to me.
It’s like Prism and Fluid (fluidapp.com), and I can’t wait till I can use it properly. And until it has better platform integration.
Its not a gears feature its just webkit stuck in the window nothing special. You can do it with webkit yourself.
Oh great! I saw that before but never realized I could use my internet radio prism app with this.
Well I’ve been using chrome for quite some time now, i’d even use it for the start up times alone, not to mention the java script and overall loading/caching is a lot better than it is in Firefox.
Also the fact that it’s really minimal is great.
Interesting Google Chrome feature (Linux Beta) http://bit.ly/7xng8Z couldn't seem to find the same thing in the Mac version…
it’s nice that they’re rolling ideas into Chrome that were prototyped in Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6665 / http://prism.mozilla.com/started/
It might have been prototyped in firefox but Google integrated it well into Chrome. Its very useful. You can call any application by just going google-chrome –app URL
I tried prism nearly a year ago and I thought it was missing an easy way to “install applications”. Google did it well and they adhere to conventions unlike firefox and mozilla products in general.
I just love Chrome. I have been doing most all my browsing on it since installing it. It’s built-in support for Gears is also nice. And, app shortcuts are very appealing and Chrome remembers the size of the window that you had set for each shortcut you create.
Chrome is much faster than firefox IMHO.
pages load much faster and It starts up
faster than Firefox and epiphany
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