I'm sure they have their reasons... To be honest, the whole idea of crashable tabs is laughable. Just make sure scripts and plugins don't crash the browser. It can't be that hard when you're a global mega corp

I don't think we do, and I don't think I like Chrome (although I'm much more positive about it now that Google don't claim to own anything you type into it), but surely we can at least say that one more sizeable company trying to pull users away from Internet Explorer is good for open standards and good for the web, at least for now?

Did you read the thread yet? The biggest improvement is the V8 JavaScript engine, which is much faster than the others. I tested it out with some very expensive JS code I've written, and it is significantly better. V8 is open source and the other browsers can learn from it.

But does this mean we need a new browser? Of course not. Chrome exists because Google wants a browser for their own financial reasons. Why pay the Mozilla people money (for search queries) when you can put together a competent browser of your own?

I don't trust third party benchmarks. I've seen people claim that FF3's JS is on par with V8, which is ridiculous.

I don't know if this competition is a good thing...

It would appear Google has been looking a bit closer at its bottom line.

Google might just decide that paying for Mozilla isn't quite so smart now that they're direct competitors. If Mozilla doesn't get paid by Google they'll be in a tough spot. Maybe they'd sign a contract with Yahoo or even Microsoft search. Or maybe they wont... its hard to say what those Mozilla guys would do.

But maybe that reason alone will prevent Google from dropping them. Its all so hard to tell.

To add worries, Google has been straying from its "Do no evil" motto. Things like that tend to become more and more forgotten when companies go public. Especially after the stock has shown a peak.

Also we can't forget it was the founders who said "don't be evil" and now they only represent a combined 3% of the company.

I've always assumed that .htaccess was a server-side thing. Maybe the problem lies elsewhere?

Hmmm, I wonder what sort of quarks would cause the RewriteRule to only sometimes work then...

you might have to clear out your cookies and casche. I had the same problem but called tech support and they had me type some shit at the command line. Or you could clear everything and reset your computer. I can't remember exactly what the process was, sorry

You have to send a filename header so the browser knows what to name it.

Anyhow, I don't really like it. The mouse wheel is WAY too sensitive, I can scroll normally in other apps, then go to scroll in Chrome and it goes at mach 3.

Oh, and in the epic failure department, I was denied access to some amazon article page thingy "because I'm running too old of a version of Safari to support their site." Of course, that's Amazon being worse than failure, not so much Chrome.

I think that Google Chrome is there in order to enhance the Cloud computing experience. Google is seriously thinking in making the browser 'the desktop', and one way to do that is to ensure the browser can't crash from a bad script; that's why they have made each tab a separate process.

Any thoughts on the "GoogleUpdate" process that continues to start and run when you uninstall Chrome (sorry if I missed something already said)? Is it just an oversight by Google, some tracking program, some other type of spyware, or something else?

I'm pretty sure the project teams at google just do a lot of copy and paste.

You have an older version. I did an update to try out the flight simulator thing they added, and in came Google Update. What version do you have? I have 4.3 (and there's an update for it...)

Eh? Google Updater shows talk and Earth, but not Chrome?