Wow, Chrome is noticeably faster than IE and Firefox on my XP work computer.
Years ago I read that a new computer has to be at least 40% faster for someone to notice the speed improvement.
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tommyrot - May 19, 2010 12:30:47 pm PDT #13887 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Barb - May 19, 2010 12:40:01 pm PDT #13888 of 25501
“Not dead yet!”
Question for any of the Mac laptop users. Back when I had my first Mac laptop (a G3) I used to be able to replace the hard drive icon with an image of my choice. Is there anyway to do that with any of the new MacBook Pros? I've tried with the last 3 I've had and haven't had any success.
ETA: figured it out.
dcp - May 19, 2010 1:35:00 pm PDT #13889 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
So, who's using Chrome as your primary browser?
It was very unstable for me on Vista, but now that I am using Windows 7 I haven't had any problems with it at all and it is back to being my primary browser.
Sean K - May 19, 2010 2:30:29 pm PDT #13890 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I have replaced the HD in my laptop, and am reinstalling OSX. Laptop is happy again. Now I have a billionty-five updates to download and run, and three weeks of progress bars to watch.
Gris - May 19, 2010 4:10:44 pm PDT #13891 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I use Chrome both in Windows 7 and OS X. It is my one true browser, I think. I heart it immensely.
§ ita § - May 19, 2010 4:41:26 pm PDT #13892 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You people are all crazy.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 20, 2010 12:01:23 am PDT #13893 of 25501
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Chrome is great, but I do get annoyed at the fair number of sites that either don't display right in Chrome, or don't work at all with it. But it's fab as a browser - fast, good extensions, doesn't shut down every time I open a PDF like Firefox tends to do.
Jessica - May 20, 2010 3:45:54 am PDT #13894 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Chrome wasn't noticeably faster than Firefox on my Macb(bookPro), so I quit using it. Didn't seem to be worth the trouble to hunt down all the extentions I'd need to make it behave like Firefox does.
Gris - May 20, 2010 4:49:37 am PDT #13895 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Yeah, I don't use a lot of extensions. I use AdBlock, and that's pretty much it, so it was no trouble for me to switch to Chrome.
I don't find that it's noticeably faster to run, necessarily, but it's WAY faster to start on both Windows and Mac OS X for me. Since I'm not the type to leave programs open when I'm not using them, that makes a pretty big difference for me.
I also just like the way it looks. Sometimes I am shallow.
flea - May 20, 2010 5:35:18 am PDT #13896 of 25501
information libertarian
I'm trying to run Google Docs - both the slide-making and a spreadsheet at the same time - and finding it slows everything on my computer incredibly down. Like, the thing where you type, and 30 second later the letters start showing up. At work, on a PC running current Firefox. Any tips? It's like living in the early 1990s, with the slow. I have closed and reopened Firefox and rebooted the whole machine.