Google Chrome has lost it's luster.

[ThaMan]

After months of using Google Chrome as my default web browser, I've about decided to go back to Mozilla. I am convinced the problems I have encountered with Chrome is because of the Safari rendering engine. Mozilla has a few problems with websites, however, most, if not all of the problems I have with Mozilla are because of the websites using ActiveX content.

With Google Chrome, on the other hand, the problems I am having are not related to ActiveX. One of the problems I have is with one of my websites www.southeasternexecutives.com. Chrome will not allow me to sign in and see my account. It's weird stuff like that with Chrome.

Another problem I have with Chrome that is totally weird is on these boards. When I post a message using any style at all, I have no problems. If, however, I want to edit a message, and I am using the english_nights_noads, it will not save the edit. If I use Mozilla Firefox, I have no problems. If I use the LOA_default style and Chrome, I have no problems.

On my home computer, I moved the \user\{username}\folders to a different location on another hard drive, since I was running low on disk space on the boot drive. After I did this, Chrome refused to load. I re-installed it, after troubleshooting using the techniques posted on Chrome's website. I got it working, but after a week, it just stopped. I am not in the mood to troubleshoot it again, so I reverted back to Mozilla Firefox a while ago at home.

All in all, I really really like the google Chrome interface, and the "thumbnail" view of the top 9 websites I visit, but the advantages do not outweigh the pitfalls I have encountered.

If Mozilla decides to adopt that feature, I would be happy.

What have all of you using Chrome decided? Like it? Dislike it?

[Kamui]

I've had almost no problems with Chrome. It has the same activeX issues as Firefox, but in general is even more compatible with internal corporate sites than Firefox is.
The speed still blows me away. Chrome loads (on both my systems) easily 3 times faster than either IE7 or Firefox.

One thing I have encountered is Chrome hanging on some pages. A single tab can become almost unresponsive (can still scroll, but navigating to other pages, or closing the tab, suffer massive delays). I've noted site that this happens on, and stopping the page loading before the banner ads come in solves this. Even when it doesn't, recovering is more graceful than it would be in any other browser.

Chrome isn't perfect, of course. It's still the new kid in town. I keep all three major browsers installed in case I *REALLY* need a page to load, but Chrome will remain my primary for a long time, and I'm expecting the next version to bring big improvements.

[Freejack]

I still use Chrome, but I never stopped using FF either. I try and segregate things. For potentially memory-hungry pages or something that might consume a lot of CPU resources, I'll try loading it in Chrome in case I want to shut down just that tab. However, I have actually seen rendering become more broken with the newer versions of Chrome. Common sites like Netvibes and Yahoo! Mail no longer work right in Chrome when they seemed fine a couple months ago.

I will continue to use Chrome as it still has some utility to me, but I'll never stop using my other browsers that still seem much more mature and have a lot more utility to me.

[Jerith|Tony]

I've never been a big user of feature rich browsers anyway. Chrome still fits my style nicely. Though I have seen the quirks you mention on some sites. I fall back to whatever other browser I have at hand when I run into those.

[Savistik]

Chrome (and to a lesser extent Safari) gain some of their speed from the fact that they are simply not processing some content (sometimes large portions) on some web pages. Often it is scripting setup routines that run before a page is rendered where the developers have accommodated the differences between IE and Mozilla, but haven't updated for Safari/Chrome or simply don't care. These skipped sections can manifest as incorrect functionality, such as logins not working or other scripted events. Board software editing capability is heavily scripted.

That site ThaMan listed has lots of browser specific branching in its script code that, from what I looked at, checked for Mozilla, IE, and Safari, but not Chrome.

Scripting engines are very slow since they compile on the fly, so much of the gains I saw with Chrome and Safari was simply from skipping content. Fine for plenty of uses on the web, but not something I'd call a valid speed gain.

[Kamui]

The biggest speed gain i've noticed with Chrome is just opening the application. That has nothing to do with site content.
From clicking the icon, Chrome opens in under a second. Firefox takes 8 seconds (granted, i have a bloated config in there), and IE7 takes 5 seconds.

That's not even counting loading the page.

Also, again, I haven't seen many scripts not working in Chrome. I can edit posts just fine (haven't tested in all layouts).
The one place it consistently bugs out is my online banging page, after submitting a request.

[Namoric]

The one place it consistently bugs out is my online banging page, after submitting a request.

.... what is a banging page?

:barebutt:

I know what it sounds like, but I'm sure that's not it.

[Kamui]

banking page.

seriously.
that's what i meant.:browsmiley:

[Solostaran]

Opera.

[Jerith|Tony]

I would totally use Opera on my PDA phone if it was free.

[Freejack]

Opera comes with the Fuze and it is waaay nice. Skyfire (http://www.skyfire.com/) is the other really hot PDA browser these days.

[Jerith|Tony]

Yeah, I've been using Skyfire.

[Solostaran]

I've never used the mobile version of Opera; I just use it on my desktops religiously.

[Freejack]

The full version of Opera Mini is really quite sweet. In fact, I'd probably say (and I've heard it said in the press) that it pretty easily surpasses Safari on the iPhone. The only real downside is the fact that it's still on a WinMo device and therefore has to deal with the shortcomings that come with that.