Google Launches Internet Browser (OUT NOW!)

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Dale Gobbler

#21 September 02, 2008, 03:42:48 pm

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Wonder what the default homepage will be. Its kinda cool how if there's a browser bug, it'll only close the tab affected and not the whole browser.

a guy in the comic said dammit, stickin with firefox

m
o hap

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Alec

#22 September 02, 2008, 03:49:14 pm

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Quote from: Mama Luigi on September 02, 2008, 03:39:22 pm

Oh cool thanks didn't know about this.

What about duplicate tab?

i don't know what duplicate tab does it doesn't really sound useful?

but duplicate is a plugin in firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/28

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With Duplicate Tab you can copy a tab so that the copy has the same history of the original tab. A tab can be copied into a new tab or a new window.

Other features available are "Merge Windows" which moves all tabs from all windows in to one single window, and "Detach Tab" which makes a window out of a tab.
For both features you can select tabs with Ctrl+Click. This allows you to merge only the selected tabs into a window, or to detach all selected tabs as tabs in a new window.

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Iaman

#23 September 02, 2008, 03:52:47 pm

Yay! I drew a pic of me!
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Quote from: HL on September 02, 2008, 03:23:14 pm

Upon reading the entire Chrome comic, it sounds really really amazing.

Well that's their advertising team doing it's job, I suppose. With some of the features (like the individual processes for tabs, which could either be AMAZING or HORRIBLE) it couldn't have been too hard, but still... it's their job.

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Cheesy Doritos

#24 September 02, 2008, 03:57:10 pm

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Yeah, it sounds pretty interesting. Ad-blocking is a must, though.

I'm not too partial to the name either, but whatever.

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Marcus

#25 September 02, 2008, 03:59:18 pm

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i just realized scott mccloud drew the comic.

no wonder it looked familiar.

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Cheesy Doritos

#26 September 02, 2008, 04:00:50 pm

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Actually I might want to wait for plug-ins and add-ons and stuff; there are things in Firefox that I take for granted but use a lot.

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Alec

#27 September 02, 2008, 04:03:53 pm

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who said there wasn't ad-blocking? I thought mama luigi was making a joke and those articles don't make any mention of ad-blocking (except the comic which talks about it's pop-up blocker).

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HL

#28 September 02, 2008, 04:21:56 pm

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Quote from: Alec on September 02, 2008, 04:03:53 pm

who said there wasn't ad-blocking? I thought mama luigi was making a joke and those articles don't make any mention of ad-blocking (except the comic which talks about it's pop-up blocker).

Because I am sure Google totally wants to support blocking the ads they have that make them money.

That's where Mama was coming from I think.

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Sir

#29 September 02, 2008, 04:33:55 pm

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Another something other than IE, which sucks? Sweet.

"Oh your God!" -Bender, Futurama

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HL

#30 September 02, 2008, 05:25:33 pm

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Also here is screen:

The only thing I hate is I'm used to the menu bar at the top now.

Have to get used to this...

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Mateui

#31 September 02, 2008, 05:28:45 pm

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Yeah, I wish the tab bar would have been put below the address bar.

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Mama Luigi

#32 September 02, 2008, 05:31:28 pm

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Quote from: HL on September 02, 2008, 04:21:56 pm

Because I am sure Google totally wants to support blocking the ads they have that make them money.

That's where Mama was coming from I think.

Yes, this is exactly what I was getting at. Since it's open source, hopefully the users will have some control over this sort of thing.

The layout looks nearly identical to the default Opera layout so I don't feel alienated in the slightest

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Alec

#33 September 02, 2008, 05:32:00 pm

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yeah the tabs up top is kinda weird i hope there's an option to change that.
and i meant i mean adblocking in firefox is mostly plugin anyway and chrome will have a plugin system too i don't see why someone couldn't make adblock for chrome.

and knowing google if they were making adblocking they'd just replace all ads with google ads which i don't have a problem with especially cause a lot of the sites that use them would have fucked up layouts with out them.

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VinceP

#34 September 02, 2008, 05:39:19 pm

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I'll try it just to be curious. But the only smooth and fast browser that is acceptable on my AMD K-6 PC is K-Meleon. So I'm sticking to it.

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Verne

#35 September 02, 2008, 05:57:07 pm

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Ad blocking has to be the most overrated feature in browser wars these days. I haven't used one for ages and haven't ever felt like the need to use one. I stumble upon an annoying ad at the rate of about once a three months and it's done with a simple click of the mouse. Ads are also the reason 90% of the big sites stay alive.