Google Chrome for Mac

Marty_J

Google have released a beta version of Google Chrome for Mac:

http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=mac

It seems pretty fast and stable. I'll try it out for a few days, though I'm struggling to find a reason to switch to it from Safari.

And it really needs an ad-blocker.

fermi

Or Linux: http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux

S0litaire

Chrome has an add blocker:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/
check out "AdThwart"

fermi

S0litaire wrote: »

Chrome has an add blocker:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/
check out "AdThwart"

Just tried that, and is is very poor and incomplete.

OK, you might expect that for an extension for a beta release, but the Windows release has been out long enough.

Seems that it is built on code from the Firefox Adblock Plus extension, but lacks any way to easily configure it. Also fails to block content that Adblock does just fine for me, so the filterlist used is not that good.

Finally, rather than blocking the content, it first lets Chrome paint the window with the content intact, then removes it from view. In other words that blocked content flashes up briefly, which is very irritating after a while.

scopey

I'd try anything over Safari.

silentbob09

On my MBP I run Firefox for general web stuff and chrome for things like gmail. The fast java engine is the attraction, when support for firefox extensions is fully available that might precipitate a trial of a full move to Chrome but until that time Firefox will be number one.

asininity

You could try this, its rather good. I was using qtweb but it seems to have some big flaws but Aroras good and quick.