Google Chrome is the Best Browser!

I've used chrome since day one, love it

Originally Posted by JoeWoah

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I don't know anyone who doesn't use GMail under the age of 30.
I don't use it and I don't see any reason I should ever use it. I'll grant that it is probably more advanced that most webmails out there, but I don't use webmails.

Originally Posted by povar

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I used it for 3 months and it still can't display SF correctly, which is using a highly popular message board system. I even reported the problem.
It works perfectly fine on my end. Always has.

Originally Posted by Étienne

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I don't use it and I don't see any reason I should ever use it. I'll grant that it is probably more advanced that most webmails out there, but I don't use webmails.
You're missing out. It isn't just a webmail system, but it is one of most advanced email systems out there. In some respects, like archival, search, filtering, browser-based mail and integration throughout multiple mobile platforms it is the most advance. In other respects, it a close second.

Originally Posted by JoeWoah

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You're missing out.
I respectfully disagree. I have a gmail account. I have never ever found any use for it and stopped using it altogether about 2 years ago. For my daily use, I have an account on a Unix server and a text-based mailreader. I don't see anything gmail does that I cannot do better, and much simpler, using these.

Originally Posted by Étienne

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I respectfully disagree. I have a gmail account. I have never ever found any use for it and stopped using it altogether about 2 years ago. For my daily use, I have an account on a Unix server and a text-based mailreader. I don't see anything gmail does that I cannot do better, and much simpler, using these.
I'm going to still go with search, archival and cross-platform mobile. I also have a third party plug-in that searches and indexes inside my PDF's and images (like GIS). Also, I manage all my email address (about 10 - school, alumni, old AOL, work, junk, etc...) from my one Gmail account, with the proper filters and labels in place, it simplifies everything. For free it's damn powerful. There have been lots of changes made in the past 2 years, BTW.

Originally Posted by JoeWoah

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I'm going to still go with search, archival and cross-platform mobile.
"Cross-platform"? Seems like a lot of unneccessary complication when I can simply access my server for anywhere in the world, whatever the computer I am using.

I don't have many fancy needs in terms of archiving, filtering and the sort. I do have a pretty sophisticated procmail filter in place, but that's all I need. If I ever had a need for it, though, many mail programs are entirely scriptable, which gives you the ability to do pretty much anything you could want.

Originally Posted by Étienne

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"Cross-platform"? Seems like a lot of unneccessary complication when I can simply access my server for anywhere in the world, whatever the computer I am using.

I don't have many fancy needs in terms of archiving, filtering and the sort. I do have a pretty sophisticated procmail filter in place, but that's all I need. If I ever had a need for it, though, many mail programs are entirely scriptable, which gives you the ability to do pretty much anything you could want.

Yeah but it's pretty much built in and works really well, so why reinvent the wheel? I get A LOT of PDF's and graphics, so GMail is a god-send to deal with. It's one reason why most of the people I work with use it rather than Outlook, which is the worst over-complicated piece of crap to ever come out of Microsoft (and that's saying something). There is something to be said for being able to find an obscure reference in a PDF that's been sitting in your email archive for over a year but never needed before today and finding it in .10 seconds... or just finding out you had the PDF in the first place, since I hardly read them all.

The mobile thing is extremely important as well, at least for me and every person that uses a BlackBerry/iPod/WinMo/Palm/Nokia/Android/etc... which are a lot of folks. The fact that it works the way it does across the board on all those platforms via full-featured apps, rather than crappy mobile browsers, makes it all the more useful. Of course, it works best on Android, but the 1:1 with the BlackBerry OS is appreciated.

Firefox is the best hands down

Hmm, it seems chrome functions very differently for different people, perhaps depends on operating system and other specifics. I have had no problem with chrome and see it as head and shoulders above the other browsers. I'd say Opera is my 2nd favorite because it is also very fast, but Firefox and IE don't compare. That said, speed is by far the most important thing for me. There are still some pages chrome can't render, but they are very few and far between. I don't have any crashing issues.

Originally Posted by djs488

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Hmm, it seems chrome functions very differently for different people, perhaps depends on operating system and other specifics. I have had no problem with chrome and see it as head and shoulders above the other browsers. I'd say Opera is my 2nd favorite because it is also very fast, but Firefox and IE don't compare. That said, speed is by far the most important thing for me. There are still some pages chrome can't render, but they are very few and far between. I don't have any crashing issues.

Yeah, I guess so. I stopped using Chrome last summer because of issues with Flash. Play more than one flash-video or ad and the whole thing became unstable and crashed. Once that was fixed I went back because I just couldn't stand FireFox. I like Opera too but it's plug-in's could be handled a little more elegantly than it is. A working spell check wouldn't hurt either.

where do I get chrome?

Originally Posted by Aperipan

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where do I get chrome?

are you kidding?

google it

Loaded up Chrome on my Vista 32 laptop and I've been using it for a little bit.

It's blazing fast, stripped down, and simple. Has some very nice features. The only things I've seen wrong so far are the fact that it does not display the drop-down menus at the top of Styleforum ('my posts', 'search', etc) and it will not login to my school's email account.

Oh yeah, and there's only about half-functionality of my mouse's center scroll button on websites...

Originally Posted by zeeth

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are you kidding?

google it

Yes, you'll be shocked at the results.

Even better now with the new 3D browsing capabilities !

http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/cadie/

Thanks Cadie!