[olug] Google Chrome on Linux

[T. J. Brumfield]

Some Facebook apps don't work in it, and the Adblock extension doesn't
work all that well. Adblock Plus in Firefox usually removes the entire
div element. With Chrome and Adblock, I see big empty areas, or an
error where an ad should be. Even worse, I still see plenty of apps.

And in reading AICN on my Windows deskop with Chrome, a PDF with an
exploit downloaded and tried opening itself. That was just loading the
AICN front page. That kind of behavior never happens in Firefox with
Adblock.

Chrome is promising and very fast, but I can't pull the trigger
completely on a switch yet.

-- T. J.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Dave Rowe <dave at roweware.com> wrote:
> Oh, Chrome is still my primary browser these days, its still snappy and _just works_ most of the time.  I think it has an amazing future.  I hope it doesn't get bogged down though.  Firefox used to also be amazing and snappy, but (to me) has since gone down hill in terms of performance, etc.
>
> -Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Wittenmeier <magitoddw at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:30:02
> To: <dave at roweware.com>; Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Google Chrome on Linux
>
> do any of you remember how buggy the first Mozilla was when it came
> out? It would barely even open! I'm hoping these things get resolved
> quick you know? I'd love to have sleek little browser again.
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Dave Rowe <dave at roweware.com> wrote:
>> I've noticed that the popup blocker still loads the popup and renders the content.  If the popup contained flash, you'd hear the flash video, and it would stop if you closed the popup blocked notification box.
>>
>> Also, seems rather CPU intensive at times.  Even without flash.
>>
>> -Dave
>> ------Original Message------
>> From: Todd Wittenmeier
>> Sender: olug-bounces at olug.org
>> To: Omaha Linux User Group
>> ReplyTo: Omaha Linux User Group
>> Subject: Re: [olug] Google Chrome on Linux
>> Sent: Dec 18, 2009 12:23 PM
>>
>> I've been using it, and sometimes it's great, sometimes it's been a
>> little slow to pull up pages believe it or not if they have flash on
>> em just like Eric said.
>>
>> I can't wait for it to get done tho.. I love my firefox, but everyone
>> is right it's a little bloated.. but maybe thats what you get when try
>> to be as cross platform as that app is right?
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Eric P <eric.maillist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Charles Bird wrote:
>>>> Hey yall,  I havent been around much to observe discussions much latley, my
>>>> email changed as a result of terminating my own employment, so I dont know
>>>> if you guys and gals have been talking about Chrome on Linux latley or not.
>>>>
>>>> It Rocks, except I cant close it. lol, even killing in term via pid doesnt
>>>> work all the time, but as far as resource usage, its really nice, and fast.
>>>> I like this beta they got going on so far.
>>>
>>> I've been using Chromium for 4-5 months which I believe is even a newer build than the Chrome beta.   And updates come
>>> through regularly.
>>>
>>> Flash is a little clunkier than in Firefox (I have a 1.5 Ghz machine), but everything else is much, much zippier.  I use
>>> it for 90% of my regular browsing now.
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