http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
New browser, based on webkit which is behind safari with features copied from lots of other browsers. Anyone tried it yet?
― Ed, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)
DctrHrrbl OTM
― Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:15 (seventeen years ago)
jesus christ, could they have rendered the programmers to look anymore smug?
i already hate them all with a passion, even as i'm sure that they're wonderful people
― dell, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:18 (seventeen years ago)
wtf at that
now I kind of never want to try it
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:21 (seventeen years ago)
that is some jack chick type shit
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:23 (seventeen years ago)
! It says "OMFG" in the chat window on the second panel. Wonder if that will stay that way.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:23 (seventeen years ago)
illustrations by this guy
http://www.piedepagina.com/comics/images/Understanding-Comics_500.jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)
so where's the download link, it's tuesday
― am0n, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)
Google removes cached page of Chrome download
― am0n, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)
California hipster programmers get up late.
xpost
― Ed, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)
27 minutes! CAN'T WAIT!
― DG, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)
I'm not going to bother. All these browsers seem the same. You can't pull the wool over my eyes.
― jel --, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:44 (seventeen years ago)
Dell otm; this comic was so fucking smug. The security "features" in this browser (black lists!!?!) are fucking dated. No heuristic security features, no new CSRF or XSS protection, no cred.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)
that comic loads funny. also how long is it? give me an xx / xx at the bottom please.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)
I'd like to see a Penny Arcade version of this comic...
― snoball, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:18 (seventeen years ago)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sF9F5_nDfgc/SL1yxvdb0lI/AAAAAAAABN8/zvFgf9o2vsE/s200/google-chrome.jpg http://mygamesonline.net/images/simon.jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:43 (seventeen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/51/Elo_logo.png/155px-Elo_logo.png
― snoball, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:44 (seventeen years ago)
u guys sure are mad at a comic on the internet about a new piece of software
― max, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:49 (seventeen years ago)
ITS OUTRAGEOUS.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)
I'm mad that I clicked through 14 pages of nonsense with no end in sight, yes.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah, I got to page 22 or so before giving up.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:55 (seventeen years ago)
It's such shit.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)
maybe they deliberately didnt tell us how long it was.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)
max, at least we're talking about a comic that we are actually reading. Here's a bunch of blowhards talking about Chrome itself, when they haven't even used it yet...
― snoball, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:57 (seventeen years ago)
The commenter talking about the browser inside of a browser is mildly funny.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:59 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.aramchang.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/fivefinger_usersenario.gif
― M.V., Tuesday, 2 September 2008 18:00 (seventeen years ago)
Whoa, yeah, I was gunna say. Full-on Scott McCloud going on on that site.
― kingfish, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 18:22 (seventeen years ago)
The press conference is on now, so you can live stream the video and see how much the developers look like their comic book representations.
― snoball, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 18:26 (seventeen years ago)
Whaaa... ? Jesus, I'm only on page 5. Sod this.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 18:30 (seventeen years ago)
this must be a 'software engineer' thing like when i get mad at jim derogatis
― max, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 18:33 (seventeen years ago)
It'll be ironic if nu-nu-nu-ILX doesn't work with Chrome (yeah I know it will 'cause of WebKit etc.)
― snoball, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 18:45 (seventeen years ago)
like rain on your wedding day
― Matt P, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 19:15 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.google.com/chrome Windoze (Beta)
― am0n, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:16 (seventeen years ago)
Needs Vista or XP SP 2
― snoball, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:18 (seventeen years ago)
wau this is hideous
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:21 (seventeen years ago)
somehow uglier than ie
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)
I feel like it was designed by me. This is not a good thing.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)
> Yeah, I got to page 22 or so before giving up
38 pages in total. and that thing that only let you click 'next' and then appeared to reshow the current page whilst downloading the next page really slowly in the background was really annoying.
images available directly: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/images/1.jpg
interesting that they chose webkit over gecko. mildly. will be interesting to see whether Adblock gets ported to it...
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:29 (seventeen years ago)
and that thing that only let you click 'next' and then appeared to reshow the current page whilst downloading the next page really slowly in the background was really annoying.
that's what im talking about. such a basic functionality failure and these guys are making a browser?
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:51 (seventeen years ago)
Reminds me of that crap AOL browser from about 1996.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:32 (seventeen years ago)
I dunno, I kinda like it. The comic is random and endless however.
― abanana, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:40 (seventeen years ago)
pretty awful
what does it bring that firefox doesn't already have sewn up?
lower memory footprint?
― cozwn, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:41 (seventeen years ago)
Supposedly if a website causes a tab to crash, then that tab can be closed without affecting any other tabs that are open.
― snoball, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:44 (seventeen years ago)
But Firefox will reopen your session back at the same state it had when it crashed.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:45 (seventeen years ago)
Yep...
― snoball, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:45 (seventeen years ago)
Although to be fair, it's usually necessary to force Firefox to close by using the Task Mananger.
― snoball, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:47 (seventeen years ago)
I quit after that first page. I don't care if it has a small memory footprint than Firefox (probably not), I'm not going through THAT.
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:48 (seventeen years ago)
firefox is fine these days, memory-wise; those days are past us, we live in the promised age
safari is amazing too; what are google thinking
total palin play
― cozwn, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:51 (seventeen years ago)
I just can't believe how fast and light it is. I've just uninstalled firefox, and I don't think I'll regret it. Big surprise.
― Snowballing, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:53 (seventeen years ago)
Don't you guys find it a LOT faster ?
― Snowballing, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:54 (seventeen years ago)
awesome, thanks brah
― calstars, Friday, 23 November 2018 02:52 (six years ago)
i am having the weirdest chrome issue, since updating to whatever the latest version is a few weeks ago. and worse, i can't find anyone else having the same problem, and worserer, i am having trouble consistently replicating the issue.
it looks like this:
https://i.imgur.com/Pzo7jCv.png
pop-up URL boxes now occasionally appear, on some webpages. sometimes it's when my mouse passes over an image, sometimes when it's over a URL, sometimes when it's just text, and sometimes when it's just on the side of text. sometimes the pop-up box disappears relatively quickly. sometimes they persist until I move my mouse over the pop-up box. sometimes, even after I do that, they don't go away. it's insane. some websites have more of a problem with it than others - Pitchfork immediately became a nightmare to browse. sometimes i have to "clear" about a dozen pop-up URL boxes when i read a single review. then on the next review, maybe i don't get any at all. it is fucking weird.
twitter also occasionally completely flips out on me, especially when i'm trying to "compose" a new tweet
https://i.imgur.com/XMVqlVP.png
the problem is especially notable when I have a link in the tweet - the pop-ups stack on top of each other, and sometimes I've seen like 20 or 30 stacked - IT'S MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO TWEET, OH HEAVENS
anyway, i have had zero luck troubleshooting this or finding anyone with a similar issue.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 23 November 2018 04:35 (six years ago)
do you think their being drawn is connected w/ tooltip-style hovers or with the status bar traditionally at window bottom?
― j., Friday, 23 November 2018 05:08 (six years ago)
use firefox
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 23 November 2018 05:36 (six years ago)
xp
more like tooltip-style hovers. although again, sometimes the pop-up occurs right where the cursor is, and sometimes they show up several hundred pixels away. it's fucking weird (and incredibly annoying).
yeah, this is probably the answer
― Karl Malone, Friday, 23 November 2018 06:46 (six years ago)
Is Firefox good now?Haven't used it for awhileChrome is a real hog
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 November 2018 12:24 (six years ago)
Firefox is good now
― stet, Friday, 23 November 2018 13:20 (six years ago)
cosign
― Chequers Plays Pop (snoball), Friday, 23 November 2018 18:58 (six years ago)
Still a memory hog more than other browsers on a mac
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 23 November 2018 19:51 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMbcOC5dS5k
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Saturday, 24 November 2018 03:15 (six years ago)
dropping this here in case anyone finds it useful--i noticed after the last chrome update that the prioritization of suggestions in the address bar had changed. i always use the first letter or two to get to the sites i check all the time, and after the update it started placing my most recent search starting w/that letter over my most visited url starting with that letter.
so like instead of typing 'i' to autocomplete ilxor.com i would end up repeating a search for "irrigating a garden" or whatever the last random thing i looked up was.
anyway this tells you how to fix it: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/14/fix-chrome-prioritizing-search-words-over-visited-sites-in-address-bar/
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 16:47 (six years ago)
Appreciate that.
I thought I had noticed something happening, but it was one of those things where I thought maybe I was the crazy one.
― pplains, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 18:21 (six years ago)
search on my android isn't worth shit the past week
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:15 (six years ago)
not getting fb or twitter notifications in the same time period
lol xiaomi?
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:22 (six years ago)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/30/google-just-gave-2-billion-chrome-users-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox/amp/?fbclid=IwAR3eibAW_8iCiqa8dojijIzvHI8_oNYrlH9KqZ4Bz4MrDe2-bHa6KLzaB2Y
― akm, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 21:07 (six years ago)
(^^^^ this indicates that chrome will not allow ad blockers soon for anyone but Enterprise users)
― akm, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 21:23 (six years ago)
i've been using Opera for a couple years now and it's great. i'm almost fully extricated from Big Google.
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 23:54 (six years ago)
Where has the fucking flag to disable the incredibly stupid pull-to-refresh gone in Android Chrome?
― Invisible (Noel Emits), Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:17 (six years ago)
How do I shot printing from Chrome these days?
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 17:10 (four years ago)
The selected printer is not available or not installed correctly. Check your printer or try selecting another printer.
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 17:16 (four years ago)
Same even for Save as PDF.
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 17:37 (four years ago)
Anyone have suggestions for an add-on or extension that gives Chrome a search bar similar to Firefox's? I basically want my search phrase to persist in case I need to edit it on subsequent searches.
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Friday, 10 June 2022 23:00 (three years ago)
Every time Chrome updates I have to go into flags and disable the side search panel.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 March 2023 07:40 (two years ago)
Every tech company insists on making their product more annoying with every iteration.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 March 2023 07:41 (two years ago)
I just updated it and it did not put the side search panel back.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Friday, 10 March 2023 09:12 (two years ago)
Experiencing a weird bug using Chrome on my Mac, Chrome windows always appear behind / hidden by windows from every other application. No way to bring them to the front (including the "bring all to front" menu item.) Makes my computer a little bit unusable.
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Monday, 9 October 2023 17:56 (two years ago)
Restarting fixed it. Which is weird, because it started happening immediately after a prior restart ...
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Monday, 9 October 2023 18:08 (two years ago)
Oh hi I have another complaint. Cmd-clicking on links on my iPad no longer opens a new tab. Works fine in what I guess is my new favorite web browser, Safari.
― default damager (lukas), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 07:27 (one year ago)
Yeah that's the worst. Holding the link does the trick, but no one's got time for that
― H.P, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 10:32 (one year ago)
fuck Chrome and fuck Google
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 10:44 (one year ago)
I like it! Microsoft Edge is far worse. It is at least 10 years since I last used Firefox.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 12:22 (one year ago)
chrome sucks, use firefox
― gbx, Friday, 16 February 2024 21:37 (one year ago)
I went back to safari after 5ish years of Firefox. They added a feature equivalent to Firefox containers which was the only thing keeping me on ff, and the Apple Pay integration, iCloud sync of everything to phone, and the greatest feature in the world (https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/20/how-the-security-code-autofill-feature-made-it-to-the-iphone) are huge.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 17 February 2024 14:20 (one year ago)
chrome finally blocked ublock origin
apparently pihole won't block youtube ads
what to do?
― 龜, Sunday, 13 July 2025 16:31 (three months ago)
i feel like you'd already know why duckduckgo wont work for you but maybe youll tell me and then I'll learn something
― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 July 2025 17:04 (three months ago)
firefox rules, just import all your shit there
― petey, pablo & mary (m bison), Sunday, 13 July 2025 18:30 (three months ago)
nobody should be using chrome
― trm (tombotomod), Sunday, 13 July 2025 19:13 (three months ago)
edge is the same thing fwiw
― trm (tombotomod), Sunday, 13 July 2025 19:14 (three months ago)
firefox or safari or opera or gtfo
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox
― chihuahuau, Sunday, 13 July 2025 19:34 (three months ago)
i use Orion and it does a passably good job of blocking YT ads
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 July 2025 07:53 (three months ago)
trying out firefox, so far so good except that ilxor.com won't remember that i've logged in
― 龜, Monday, 14 July 2025 14:26 (three months ago)
we use a first-party cookie to do that, so some extension must be preventing that somehow
― stet, Monday, 14 July 2025 16:15 (three months ago)
probably ublock origin!
i figured out a workaround, clicking on SNA returns me to a logged in state
― 龜, Monday, 14 July 2025 16:17 (three months ago)
I've never had a problem using ilx with firefox and ublock origin, but what you're describing is something i've noticed a few times lately... i assumed this may be related to the recent ilx fixes?
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 14 July 2025 17:39 (three months ago)
is it a www / non-www thing? the browser treats them as different sites
― koogs, Monday, 14 July 2025 20:44 (three months ago)
I've been using adguard on my phone. works with everything except youtube. the pc version is buggy, avoid it.
― adamt (abanana), Wednesday, 16 July 2025 02:50 (three months ago)
i'm m/l fully transitioned to firefox now and it's fine with ubo. i also just installed this extension which tries to sandbox facebook. i like that. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/
― 龜, Wednesday, 22 October 2025 21:13 (one week ago)
ive been using that fb extension for a few years, it rules
― petey, pablo & mary (m bison), Wednesday, 22 October 2025 23:15 (one week ago)
― sleeve, Wednesday, 22 October 2025 23:22 (one week ago)