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Admiral Huddy
23-07-2009, 11:52
Is it me.. or is this product crap.. Going by this, i don't hold up much hope for their forthcoming OS..
I can't get into o2, my Joomla admin and various other sites.
The only reason I use it is that it spell checks.
I'd like to go back to IE but does anyone know how i can activate spell checker in that?
I'm guessing if you're looking at alternative browsers you've already dismissed Firefox and Opera? Both well supported with spell checking functionality.
Admiral Huddy
23-07-2009, 12:01
I have dismissed FireFox but never tried Opera.. Any good?
LeperousDust
23-07-2009, 12:03
I heard Opera :D
Well actually atm, i'm using Chrome because i'm on a friends laptop i'm fixing and i always put that on instead of any other browser as its the least complicated. Its a fantastic product, i don't understand how you're having problems and its requirements always seem very very low flies either way! :)
Personally though if i had the grunt behind me i'd be using opera everytime.
Briggykins
23-07-2009, 12:04
I never got used to Chrome, didn't seem to do anything as well as either Opera or Firefox. I like Opera's features and would probably prefer to use it but Firefox seems to work slightly better in my experience.
NokkonWud
23-07-2009, 12:09
I have dismissed FireFox but never tried Opera.. Any good?
Dismissed?! It's easily the best browser, has some awesome plugins (including spell checker). It's just awesome. I could never go to IE.
LeperousDust
23-07-2009, 12:12
Yeah i agree chrome doesn't really do much, but thats what most general people want. Its better at doing nothing compared to IE ;D
I use Chrome as my Quidco browser. It's set with Quidco as the homepage and auto-login. Means I don't have to worry about anything hijacking the tracking cookies and it works rather well.
Streeteh
23-07-2009, 12:35
I'm actually shocked someone could dismiss Firefox tbh, it does everything a user could need thanks to user-made plugins and also does them faster than any other browser i've used. I actually get a little frustrated every time i'm forced to use IE now, in fact i have a U3 data stick with a preconfigured copy of firefox on it so i can avoid IE as much as possible.
Chrome is superb. Far faster than FF, even with the faster fox plugin and I've never had functionality issues at all. I love the way the tabs work too and how it takes up so little visual space.
<3 Chrome, it's so rapid, and perfect on the netbook with limited desktop space :)
<3 Chrome, it's so rapid, and perfect on the netbook with limited desktop space :)
Yeah, as a browser where speed or resolution priorities nothing comes close.
NokkonWud
23-07-2009, 13:44
Chrome is superb. Far faster than FF, even with the faster fox plugin and I've never had functionality issues at all. I love the way the tabs work too and how it takes up so little visual space.
I thought Firefox 3.5/3.7 was faster?
Blighter
23-07-2009, 13:45
Chrome is superb. Far faster than FF, even with the faster fox plugin and I've never had functionality issues at all. I love the way the tabs work too and how it takes up so little visual space.
<3 Chrome, it's so rapid, and perfect on the netbook with limited desktop space :)
This :)
I thought Firefox 3.5/3.7 was faster?
It's nowhere near, else I'd use FF exclusively as speed is my only concern with browsers.
Briggykins
23-07-2009, 13:53
I thought tests had shown that Gecko was basically faster than Webkit, although I can't remember where I read it and how old it is.
LeperousDust
23-07-2009, 13:55
Nah recent FF beta/alphas or whatever with tracemonkley and whatever else turned on are the fastest around but were now talking about ms as opposed to seconds worth of speed over IE. Its barely noticeable now days :)
I have the latest release of FF, and trace monkey only speeds up Javascript, making it no faster for general browsing compared to chrome for me.
LeperousDust
23-07-2009, 14:01
I dunno i'm just going by everything i've read, i don't even use Fx I use Opera and Chrome, so I couldn't really care less either way! I'm more than happy with Opera as a fully featured browser to compete easily with Fx, and Chrome as a stripped out browser to easily compete with IE :)
If I could get FF to be faster than chrome for general browsing I'd love to switch!
FF3.5 pisses all over Chrome speed wise on this PC, both to open and to render a page.
I've never had problems with Chrome at all, certainly not on the scale you're having Huddy.
Must be something very odd going on there, it certainly shouldn't be stopping you from doing stuff like accessing o2 or the Joomla back end.
Chrome is nice and small and fast, I like it, but FF3.5 is more suited to my needs right now, and Chrome on Linux (what I use at work) is pap, mainly because it hasn't been ported effectively yet.
Admiral Huddy
24-07-2009, 10:46
Dismissed?! It's easily the best browser, has some awesome plugins (including spell checker). It's just awesome. I could never go to IE.
Of course I'll dismiss a browser that doesn't work.
How does Firefox 'not work' ?
Browser arguments really p*** me off, especially when there isn't even any content in the argument.
Huddy - As far as I understand it, the old IESpell plugin is unmaintained and incompatible with IE7/8. There are some dodgy 'IE+' type wrapper applications which will provide some functionality. Something like ie7pro (http://www.ie7pro.com/index.php) provides spell checking, but it does a lot of stuff which looks like it'll bloat the app for my tastes, possibly worth a look.
If Chrome is close to want you need but 'broken' for certain sites then I'd suggest seeking support (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/?hl=en) for the issues you're seeing and trying to fix them. As Garp said, Chrome certainly shouldn't be a broken as you're experiencing. If another browser like Firefox also "doesn't work", then maybe something else is happening here - both are mature products, and considered to be stable and usable - at this point choosing between them should be preference about functionality/ui's/whatever, not what works and what doesn't.
NokkonWud
24-07-2009, 11:35
Of course I'll dismiss a browser that doesn't work.
Considering Firefox is eating up the market against Internet Explorer like no other has before and its massive popularity with pretty much everyone would go some way to showing it does in fact, work.
I've never had a problem in the 3 or so years I've been using it.
What is it that doesn't work on O2 out of interest? I am with them and the page seems to work fine with Chrome, so I could check to narrow down whether it's the browser or something else causing an issue :)
LeperousDust
24-07-2009, 12:45
Of course I'll dismiss a browser that doesn't work.
Shame you're being a tad vague there mate :D
I'm with Daz on this. Excluding the niche players/fake rubbish, browsers are software tools to browse the internet, and which one you choose is up to you - if it works, use it - if not, don't.
Anyone who gets borderline religious about a browser, or an operating system, or a piece of hardware, or anything else computer-related, should be placed on a desert island with that piece of hardware/software and left to fend for themselves for a while. ;D
Streeteh
24-07-2009, 14:03
I don't think anyone has gone biblical on their chosen browser though, myself and others are just puzzled as to how firefox doesn't work.
NokkonWud
24-07-2009, 14:17
I don't think anyone has gone biblical on their chosen browser though, myself and others are just puzzled as to how firefox doesn't work.
Yep. No one has gone defensive really. I merely commented on disliking IE and how I couldn't use it, but that's not really being massively defensive on one, I like Chrome too but Firefox I find is just the best of the bunch due to the plugins that I often use.
I don't think anyone has gone biblical on their chosen browser though, myself and others are just puzzled as to how firefox doesn't work.
Wasn't directed at anyone in particular. Just a general comment. :)
Must say for browsers, my preference is with chrome. It loads pages so quickly. If it's faster or slower than FireFox or IE im not that impatient I can't wait the 1/100th of a second or whatever the difference is :p
Spell checker is built in. I would like to have more functionality such as built in FTP or IRC ala firefox but then again I can either use a separate client or firefox for that.
What issues are you having with it Huddy ?
Edit
Just seen you can't get into Joomla. Not sure if this is something your end Huddy but I admin two Joomla based sites and they log in perfectly :s
Admiral Huddy
27-07-2009, 10:06
Loki,
If I change one thing using the article editor on Chrome, it knocks out all the formating.
Blighter
27-07-2009, 12:17
Well you are all rubbish and acting like girls.
Notepad is were it's at B-)
;D
LeperousDust
27-07-2009, 12:47
Lynx.
Safari.
(I don't use it much - just being controversial. :p)
Anyone who gets borderline religious about a browser, or an operating system, or a piece of hardware, or anything else computer-related, should be placed on a desert island with that piece of hardware/software and left to fend for themselves for a while. ;D
I think you're looking way too much into this discussion.
And I think you missed a follow-up post...
Wasn't directed at anyone in particular. Just a general comment. :)
:)
Hasn't happened in this thread, and probably hasn't happened in this forum, and I doubt it will. Does happen though. I guess I should keep schtum in future. :)
...Daytona, Trans Am, Mustang, Charger, GTO
Loki,
If I change one thing using the article editor on Chrome, it knocks out all the formating.
Hmm funny you should say that actually as one of the pages I did on our club website did the same. Not sure why it formatted like it did as the code was clean :s
Del Lardo
18-09-2009, 22:50
Been using Chrome for bloody ages and today it decided to start crashing every hour or so despite numerous reboots and no change to my configuration.
Farewell Chrome and welcome back Opera (in version 10 carnation)
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