Comments on: Best Web browser ? – Google Chrome Review

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:12:06 +0000

Chrome is definitely better than firefox and IE. I run on Vista and I have not had any problems with it and my computer has actually gotten faster from it. Before Chrome I used firefox and it always crashed and I could not use facebook. Now faster internet makes me a happier person.

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By: GeorgeCaldwell

GeorgeCaldwell — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:01:46 +0000

I have been a firefox user for years and a die hard firefox fan. But every since version 3.0 and up firefox has been a memory hog even with no ad ons installed it starts out slow then the more its running the more memory it pulls untill it finally crashes. I hate this to happen to firefox and I hated to do this. But chrome really impressed me on how fast it loaded and how little it uses. I hated doing it But I switched from firefox to google chrome.

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By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:16:58 +0000

having bought a HP pavillion dv4 tried every browser on here. Both IE8 and Firefox crashed and have needed several re-boots just to get the damn thing running again. I thought, why not try chrome? I expected it to be just as unreliable and .............. with windows 7 it is by far and away the most stable system, I have not had one problem and quite honestly as not the most knowledgeable computer user, I am impressed. I am quite certain it probably says more about windows 7 but for my experience alone, chrome has been superb. It would be interesting to know how other windows's 7 user are getting on with other browsers! Sean

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By: Allwynd

Allwynd — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:25:46 +0000

ive been using chrome for windows ever since it came out.. i mean i was testing it, but switching between it and firefox, internet explorer is out of my list because its the most retarded browser ever written. so at firt i noticed that chrome couldnt handle youtube content and mostly vidoes, but Google bought YouTube, so it would have been a shame for them not to fix those issues, so i kept on trying new Chrome versions and from time to time switching to Firefox, what Chrome lacked back then were addons, and mostly AdBlocker(like AdBlock+ for FF) and Download Accelerator(like DownloadThemAll! for FF), now in version 4.0, which im using there are several adblocking addons and it seems the best is AdSweep, who blocks google adds too! others block the advertising content but greatly slow chrome when loading a page, one of them wouldnt alow me to log into youtube, yahoo mail, google etc... but things with chrome drastically improve - for more than an year it almost surpassed firefox, which is since 2001 ( think)... so for about one more year chrome would probably be real stable and the normal stable versions would support addons and be stable as well, so for those who havent tried ou chrome yet, and want to, i want to tell them the following: "you have to be patient and understanding, because even if chrome has its bugs, it has features other browsers will NEVER have" for example Firefox- a really neat and slick browser, and it has addons! but wait! what happened?! all those addons are slowing my Firefox at both cold and warm start! what can i do? i can remove the addons, but i wont have the features they offer anymore.. is there another resolve?? yes, there is - Google Chrome 4.0 - even if you install EVERY SINGLE addon on the addons gallery and meny more unofficial found on the web, it will still load for 2 seconds in cold and 1 second in warm start.. so Cheers for Chrome!!!

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By: P L

P L — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:00:46 +0000

I installed Google Chrome, and it was lightning fast and I decided... "Cool!". Well after a while my laptop slowed down and got slower and slower. I did some troubleshooting, and it looked like I had a virus, so I did some hunting for it, found it, and got rid of it. Well the pc speeded back up again, but then I noticed that I would click on things and put in a URL, only to have the page switch back to the Google search page... RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF WHAT I WAS WORKING on. This problem got worse and worse. It would switch to Google, or switch to my Yahoo mail. I would click on an email, and it would go back to the Yahoo mail page. I deleted Google Chrome, and Zonealarm caught a program later trying to access the internet, some installer program with the name Google something .exe on it when I used my IE. Well, about the same time, my webpage would get hijacked again and end up on Google, or my Yahoo mail again. By this time, I'm getting realllly ticked off, because I have some work to get done and I don't have time for this B.S. Well I finally got Google to stop trying to take the control of my pc away from me... and now my IE is stuck running without addons enabled, and I am not sure how to fix it. I try to watch a video and it says I need to download Flash. But right after I download Flash, it doesn't recognize that I downloaded it. It just gives the same error message, over and over again. I noticed that right after I installed Google Chrome, my IE was doing this, but I didn't think it was that big of a deal at the time, because Google Chrome was playing the videos just fine. I figured it probably borrowed or was using the programs and they would revert back to IE after Google Chrome was gone. Not so. Google Chrome is the most OBNOXIOUS software I have ever put on my pc.

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:09:56 +0000

Personally, though I use Chrome, it has to be my most hated webbrowser ever. I've used a lot of incompatible browsers and Chrome has to be the WORST by far. It hates forms, it hates Flash, it hates Windows, it hates the world. Half of the time it does stupid things with forms (such as when I hit submit, it just refreshes the page or doesn't sent and erases all fields), then it'll just completely ignore most Flash-based web apps. Moral of the story is if you want a good, strong WORKING webbrowser, Chrome isn't it. I'll be surprised if it even posts this comment here.

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By: Ptto911

Ptto911 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:38:37 +0000

Have you tried Firefox 3.5? It’s much faster and better than previous versions of Firefox. Google Chrome is a HUGE resource hog compared to Firefox 3.5.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

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