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Roedy Green
Has anyone managed to download Google's new browser Chrome and see
how well Java behaves?
how well Java behaves?
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CGeek Wannabe
Looks like windows only. I'll wait for it to be available on Linux.
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steve
Couldn't get it to work. Seems like there's no Java plug in, and the
current Java installer obviously doesn't know about it. Tried to copy
the safari, and Mozilla plug ins into the chrome plugin directory and
the plug in seemed to crash.
Hopefully, someone will fill this hole soon.
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steve
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95697&topic=14687
Need to install Java 1.6_10 and it works!
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JSH
Yup. Easy as pie, using it now. Only thing is that the letters here
are very tiny so need to figure out how to make them bigger.
It IS fast. Just need to get bigger letters here...
James
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Roedy Green
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Roedy Green
most important problems:
There are three things missing:
1. home button
2. stop button
3. view source
Chrome reports Java Web Start as not present (see javascript on
http://mindprod.com/webstart/setclock.html)
Chrome does not run Java Web Start apps (*.jnlp) seamlessly. You must
download then run.
Chrome runs signed Java apps without confirmation, even ones with
self-signed certificates
You must use beta JDK 1.6.0_10. This has been reported already..
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Stefan Rybacki
Roedy said:
Over here I do have a home button as well as a view source button. Stop works by
pressing ESC
works like expected over here. I just need to allow downloading jnlp file.
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Roedy Green
in Fonts & languages I configured 16 point Constantia, Arial and 13
but BitStream Vera Sans Mono.
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Tom Anderson
Well, duh. How do you think they made Chrome go so fast? It's lightweight
- because the characters are smaller than in regular browsers!
Sure, you can make them bigger, but expect the performance to evaporate.
Now, if only we could get web page authors to use smaller letters in the
first place, then we could slash download times too ...
tom
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Roedy Green
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Roedy Green
There is a comic book that talks about the design. It looks
promising, how they go for isolation and sandboxing each JavaScript.
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
It will be a while before that design compensates for its immaturity.
Chrome is aimed at a casual user, a few buttons and options as
possible to avoid overwhelm. Not even any skins.
I discovered you can get a home button. You have to configure it on in
options.
It does not support client SSL authentication, but it does support SSL
and EVSSL secure websites.
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willo_thewisp
James is too stupid to configure fonts.
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Martin Gregorie
Two good reasons for avoiding it are:
1) The EULA, part of which reduces to the equivalent of
"All your bases are belong to us".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/
2) The current release still contains the Safari carpetbombing bug
that Apple recently squashed. See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_vuln/
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RedGrittyBrick
Martin said:
That should of course be "All your base are belong to us." ;-)
Bummer though.
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Chris Riesbeck
Christian said:
Does it do that if you refuse the installation option for collecting
usage info?
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Chris Riesbeck
Stefan said:
Both View Source (control-shift-U) and a DOM Inspector are under the
[Control document] | Developer menu. The DOM inspector is inside the
Javascript console.
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Roedy Green
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Roedy Green
Maybe it is behaving BETTER than Opera. The Applets I tested were my
own. Maybe it recognises my cert as automatically valid.
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Andreas Leitgeb
Roedy Green said:
Or, perhaps you've registered your own certificate on your machine
somewhere and Chrome found it there...
I'll wait for a Linux version, before I try it myself.