Google: Chrome News and Discussion Thread
My Garage
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Firefox 4 does the samething as Chrome so you better stick with FF 3.6 for the rest of your life cause this double-click thing is apparently a deal breaker. How will you ever survive by just hitting the plus sign once instead click twice, oh the humanity, how could they do this to you.....
Just pointing out a gripe I have with Chrome, I naturally go to double click on the tab bar to open tabs because that's just what I am used to. It's a pain when a tab doesn't open and instead the window restores down.
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Sanest Florida Man
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so my mom, i dont know what she was browsing, but got a fake defender or whatever its called in XP alert.
luckily she didnt do anything and IE blocked the website from downloading anything.
just freaking installed windows on that thing like 2 weeks ago.
anyways. Shes using IE8.
i want to put chrome on it
but she doesnt like tabbed browsing, she likes to have 1 window open per website.
is that possible on chrome?
what about in safari or something.
maybe i should get her a mac...
gotta run some scans on that machine.
luckily she didnt do anything and IE blocked the website from downloading anything.
just freaking installed windows on that thing like 2 weeks ago.
anyways. Shes using IE8.
i want to put chrome on it
but she doesnt like tabbed browsing, she likes to have 1 window open per website.
is that possible on chrome?
what about in safari or something.
maybe i should get her a mac...
gotta run some scans on that machine.
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shit.. my favorite porn torrent website gave me a notification with MSE about malware 
never had any AV software give me a warning about the site.
actually now that i think about it, ive gone there millions if not billions of times in the past and never had anything show up.
anyways im still going to goto the website.
never had any AV software give me a warning about the site.
actually now that i think about it, ive gone there millions if not billions of times in the past and never had anything show up.
anyways im still going to goto the website.
and i updated java like last week.
Suzuka Master
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so my mom, i dont know what she was browsing, but got a fake defender or whatever its called in XP alert.
luckily she didnt do anything and IE blocked the website from downloading anything.
just freaking installed windows on that thing like 2 weeks ago.
anyways. Shes using IE8.
i want to put chrome on it
but she doesnt like tabbed browsing, she likes to have 1 window open per website.
is that possible on chrome?
what about in safari or something.
maybe i should get her a mac...
gotta run some scans on that machine.
luckily she didnt do anything and IE blocked the website from downloading anything.
just freaking installed windows on that thing like 2 weeks ago.
anyways. Shes using IE8.
i want to put chrome on it
but she doesnt like tabbed browsing, she likes to have 1 window open per website.
is that possible on chrome?
what about in safari or something.
maybe i should get her a mac...
gotta run some scans on that machine.
edit: do you mean, when she clicks on a link she wants a new window open? I'm sure that can be changed in the settings.
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Sanest Florida Man
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so my mom, i dont know what she was browsing, but got a fake defender or whatever its called in XP alert.
luckily she didnt do anything and IE blocked the website from downloading anything.
just freaking installed windows on that thing like 2 weeks ago.
anyways. Shes using IE8.
i want to put chrome on it
but she doesnt like tabbed browsing, she likes to have 1 window open per website.
is that possible on chrome?
what about in safari or something.
maybe i should get her a mac...
gotta run some scans on that machine.
luckily she didnt do anything and IE blocked the website from downloading anything.
just freaking installed windows on that thing like 2 weeks ago.
anyways. Shes using IE8.
i want to put chrome on it
but she doesnt like tabbed browsing, she likes to have 1 window open per website.
is that possible on chrome?
what about in safari or something.
maybe i should get her a mac...
gotta run some scans on that machine.
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Sanest Florida Man
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stop going to that site?Do you use an ad blocker or the MVPS HOSTS file?
I personally use the MVPS HOSTS file, it block lots of ads and blocks known malware servers.
It speeds up your web page loading to since you don't have to load ads anymore
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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stop going to that site?Do you use an ad blocker or the MVPS HOSTS file?
I personally use the MVPS HOSTS file, it block lots of ads and blocks known malware servers.
It speeds up your web page loading to since you don't have to load ads anymore
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
what other porn website do you suggest i goto?
ehh its not that big of an issue i think, it just says its a script for allowing pop under ads.
and i have ad block in chrome.
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Sanest Florida Man
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puretna? Why do you have to download the video? Try bing video search, it's awesome!
try the MVPS HOSTS file! Download > unzip it > then run the mvps.bat file as admin.
try the MVPS HOSTS file! Download > unzip it > then run the mvps.bat file as admin.
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People could be intentionally infecting porn with viruses? That is pretty low, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Anyways, I've been using chrome exclusively after Firefox just shits itself randomly sometimes. Years of almost problem free use, but now I'm tired of seeing the Crash Report popup every 5 minutes. I updated it and thought it was fixed, and it worked fine for a bit.... then the same shit happened so yeah.
Just checked again, still no update. Yet sometimes I'll only have 4-5 tabs open in one window and it'll be minimized/in the background, and it'll crash
That is pretty low, but I wouldn't be surprised.Anyways, I've been using chrome exclusively after Firefox just shits itself randomly sometimes. Years of almost problem free use, but now I'm tired of seeing the Crash Report popup every 5 minutes. I updated it and thought it was fixed, and it worked fine for a bit.... then the same shit happened so yeah.
Just checked again, still no update. Yet sometimes I'll only have 4-5 tabs open in one window and it'll be minimized/in the background, and it'll crash
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You're probably right. Gonna try uninstalling some.... I did last time but it didn't seem to help so I kinda gave it up
One thing that annoys me about Chrome is that when it crashes, its a dice roll whether or not it restores the pages.
One thing that annoys me about Chrome is that when it crashes, its a dice roll whether or not it restores the pages.
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Chrome sandboxes Flash Player in latest Dev channel release for Windows
BY VLAD SAVOV
POSTEDDEC 2ND 2010 05:50AM
Hey, Adobe's finally figured out how to make Flash secure -- have Google do it! The guys behind your favorite search engine have updated their latest Dev channel release of Chrome to include a new sandboxing facility for Flash Player content. It'll serve to limit access to sensitive system resources and make Flash's operation a generally less threatening proposition than it currently is. This also marks the fulfillment of a longstanding promise from Google to give Flash the same treatment it's afforded to JavaScript and HTML rendering for a while, and should be welcome news to Windows users eager to minimize "the potential attack surface" of their browser. Sorry, Mac fans, you're out in the unsecured cold for now. Of course, the Dev channel itself is one step less refined than beta software, so even if you're on Windows it might be advisable to wait it out a little bit.
BY VLAD SAVOV
POSTEDDEC 2ND 2010 05:50AM
Hey, Adobe's finally figured out how to make Flash secure -- have Google do it! The guys behind your favorite search engine have updated their latest Dev channel release of Chrome to include a new sandboxing facility for Flash Player content. It'll serve to limit access to sensitive system resources and make Flash's operation a generally less threatening proposition than it currently is. This also marks the fulfillment of a longstanding promise from Google to give Flash the same treatment it's afforded to JavaScript and HTML rendering for a while, and should be welcome news to Windows users eager to minimize "the potential attack surface" of their browser. Sorry, Mac fans, you're out in the unsecured cold for now. Of course, the Dev channel itself is one step less refined than beta software, so even if you're on Windows it might be advisable to wait it out a little bit.
The sizzle in the Steak
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Question: maybe it's just me......but...
Why does Chrome take FOREVER to access gmail?!?!!??!!?
I mean it takes forever!!! I can use Firefox, IE, and they are instant,...Chrome...not so much.
Why does Chrome take FOREVER to access gmail?!?!!??!!?
I mean it takes forever!!! I can use Firefox, IE, and they are instant,...Chrome...not so much.
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Sanest Florida Man
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Yup! It's pretty cool! Chrome is definitely becoming the most secure browser for XP. No other browser has a sandbox for XP and Chrome will be sandboxing HTML, Java and soon Flash! Plus it updates Flash automatically and updates itself automatically.I wonder if Flash is Sandboxed in IE on Vista/7.....
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Sanest Florida Man
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Sanest Florida Man
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Chrome is blowing up! And Firefox has lost more share than it gained this year
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...o-november.ars
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Sanest Florida Man
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Chrome 8 came out today it's got 800+ bug fixes, built-in sandboxed PDF viewer and web app support. I believe Google is planning to launch a Web App store at some point in the future.
Update to that and see if it makes a difference. To update manually click the wrench and choose about chrome and then it will tell you there's an update if it hasn't updated automatically, then choose update and restart your browser.
If you're on OS X click on Chrome from the Menu bar choose about chrome and then follow the same steps as above.
Or you could just close your browser and it should update automatically in the background after closing
Update to that and see if it makes a difference. To update manually click the wrench and choose about chrome and then it will tell you there's an update if it hasn't updated automatically, then choose update and restart your browser.
If you're on OS X click on Chrome from the Menu bar choose about chrome and then follow the same steps as above.
Or you could just close your browser and it should update automatically in the background after closing
Last edited by #1 STUNNA; Dec 2, 2010 at 10:45 PM.
Three Wheelin'
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I'll stick with Firefox til Google can fix this bug. It's so annoying they can't get the UI to behave properly after 2 years.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...bbed3461&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...1cbf5597&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...hl=en&start=40
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...bbed3461&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...1cbf5597&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...hl=en&start=40
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Sanest Florida Man
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The sizzle in the Steak
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Its something the mods are working on. The AZ server is having it's share of problems as of late. Its not too big of a deal, it should be fixed soon enough.
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Sanest Florida Man
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