Chrome, Google's browser

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

I probably haven't looked into it enough but I really don't like that the new tab shows your most viewed sites. I'd rather configure that to perhaps my favorite bookmarks or useful bookmarks. Let's just say I don't want to be at work and press ctrl-t and reveal to a coworker my browsing habits. That's pretty lame.

Also, the delete history doesn't work. That needs to be fixed.

I actually like that frontpage, but you can change it to a more traditional homepage under the options. I would like it to be more customizable as well, such as by having the option to have pages never appear (right now, Google Chrome Help Centre is number 4, as an example), and to have more buttons (I'd like 16).

Also, since this is basically ripped off from Speed Dial on Opera, how come the numpad keyboard shortcuts don't work?

Anyway, I already like this browser a lot better than Firefox, which I never really liked. There are small niggles (such as ctrl+i for italics not working anymore on GFF ) but the 90% decrease in memory usage alone is enough for me to switch. I accidentally clicked on "Open all bookmarks" and it took about half a second to do just that. I have hundreds if not thousands of bookmarks. That was awesome.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Dhsu

how are people getting Chrome to use only 15MB of RAM? According to my Chrome task manager, each TAB uses 15MB on average, and the browser itself sits at 70MB. I've got 7 tabs open and I'm using 160MB. I'm not really complaining since that's still comparable to FF3, and according to Google the difference becomes more dramatic as you open more tabs, but I'm just curious how other people are getting these results.

I've heard that too, but I really don't know what to tell you--I didn't tweak a damn thing about Chrome. Then again I get a very bad performance out of Firefox 3 and people keep telling me it's much less of a memory hog than FF2.

The highlight thing is a pretty annoying oversight for sure. It's like Google didn't test Chrome on GFF, don't they know it's the most important site in the world

There's nowhere I can't reach.