After trying Chrome, how will you use it?

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it's slow, it's a crap copy of Safari, that is the best

Safari 4 da win

I tried the Windows version of Chrome back near its initial launch date, and I can say with certainity that it is a piece of junk. I want my menus where I expect them, I want tabs on the bottom (yes, this is important to me), I want add-ons, I want session restore (unless they've since implemented this?). For these reasons, FireFox is my first browser of choice, Opera is my second and Safari is my third (though I'm using Safari right now because FF likes to eat up my CPU when I have 100+ tabs open... yeah). Chrome, on the other hand... it's stupid layout messes with my workflow, so I'm not even going to bother with it. Even my father, who has 30+ years in the field, agrees that Chrome is a pile of junk. Please, Google, stick with search engines and webmail! That's all we expect from you, that's all we want from you! /rant

When I was a windows fanboy, Chrome was the shit.  It was speedy, clean, pretty, and had an amazing tab system for XP.  But Chrome for Mac just isn't as big of a jump from Safari.  I'll be sticking with Safari, it seems just as fast, and more polished.  I'll definitely be keeping Chrome installed, but it'll be a fallback for me.

i am not interested simply because

1) I love Safari (in particular Top Sites and the way history is shows)

2) Chrome its ugly

might have been faster in some areas but nothing to make me change from Safari which is supported by Apple. Why do I want to place a third party company in my trouble shooting scheme? Same reason I am on a Mac, same company provides support for both hardware and operating system, it's a no BRAINER.

I used to use Firefox, but Safari 4 really is the best browser. Chrome will just be one of the many browsers I only use to test for compatibility on my website. 

Been using it as my primary browser for about a month now. It has pretty much everything I need (there's a few things I miss but I can live without them until addons are supported) and it's MUCH more stable than Safari/Firefox.

Using it for a couple of hours. It is very fast. A little faster than Safari, a hell of a lot faster than Firefox.

I'm not particularly interested in using a Google browser.  Google I believe is excessively "snoopy" about how they do things, and I'm quite concerned (despite their pronouncements) that there is logging/snooping/other profiling going on with Google.  That's what they do.

 

No thanks.

The poll is missing the most valid question/option, which is "I won't use it, period."

Let me echo what "Snoopy Google" posted, and I've posted here several times - Google is just getting too invasive in our lives, and I'm not anxious to sign up for yet another half-baked Google Beta that isn't the best solution for any problem, and gives Google yet another way to track, index, and monetize everything I do on my computer.

Google Chrome?  Just say "No."

Totally agree with "Snoopy Google" and "Distorted Loop". Google is way too curious, all this indexing will only lead to an internet lead by one company, and that company is Google. 

 

That's not what the internet is supposed to be.

 

I'll stick with Safari on my mac, and Firefox on windows.

I use Safari and Firefox.

 

The only Google products I use is the search engine of Google and Google Earths and Maps.

Don't have and will never use a Google account or other Google Clouds products.

Safari's my main, hands down. I don't use plugins expect for AdBlock and ClickToFlash.

Those are more than enough, and Chrome's speed and stability make it second; FF is just too slow for how many tabs I run through on a regular basis.

I stopped installing any Google apps when I discovered that they secretly install an invisible app on your Mac to manage updates. Unlike almost all other vendors' updaters which run only when you start an app, it hooks itself into your system launchd items, and it runs continuously, constantly communicating with Google, even when you don't have any Google apps open. They don't tell you they are installing it, and there is no obvious way to remove it (you can, but it is cryptic). I only discovered it by running LittleSnitch to see what messages my computer was sending out.

 

Here is a page that explains how to remove it: http://www.geekology.co.za/blog/2009/02/uninstall-google-software-update... .  

 

They used to automatically install an app that was a GUI to this hidden updater, but when people complained about all this, they just removed the GUI; they still install the hidden app.  

 

I don't like that one bit.  I used to really trust Google, but this has soured me on them.

 

I guess almost all young people used Chrome because the Google Chrome was much advertised. People even install it without their knowledge but most of them switched back to the old browser after trying it out for a few times but few people who really navigated the Google chrome really found its advantages and they stick to it.

big fan of the tabs staying in place while you are closing them until you move your mouse from the x. hate, hate, HATE the fact that you can not force tabs to open at the end of the que as opposed to next to the open tab, and that closing a tab always gives focus to the previous selected. those features are popping up everywhere because there new features to some of the mainstream browsers, it's a dumb idea and creates workflow problems, i've been using it for half an hour and i already have had to reorganize tabs a lot...

 

I'm still going to use it as secondary because the point of secondary for me is quickly opening a browser to see something without my current cache/get a second use of a one use web page, and it does that well. Safari will stay first, i killed my firefox with endless add-ons and am too lazy to go through and part with them. Opera is 3

Safari's my main browser, although I do find it a bit of a CPU & RAM hog at times.

I won't try Chrome until it's released properly, but yes, if it imporves on this issue, I would definitely consider changing.

I cannot think of any reason why I would ever need to install yet another browser, especially from a company as creepy as Google. I already have Safari, Firefox and Opera, the former being my main browser and FF being used for the occasional palaeolithic website that was built for IE6 and will only display correctly in FF. Google seriously creeps me out with the unfathomable information they gather from YouTube, google search, maps, streetview, wave, and now Chrome and its stealth tracking systems. Google can go to hell. Safari is tops. 

That's it - it crashes on a start effort.

Chrome is a piece of crap.  Ads pop up everywhere... especially sound ads and Google designed Chrome so that it won't support ad blocker.  Not only that but it takes up a shitload of physical memory.