Google Chrome

[vinism]

Is anyone using Chrome as their browser? And if so, what do you think? Just wondering if I should switch over from Firefox....

[GPWA Teresa]

I'm not necessarily a fan of any beta version of anything. HAHA.

But, I have had little success using chrome for watching things. Tends to crash watching videos, such as drunk history. (which, btw, you really should watch)

[vinism]

I'm not necessarily a fan of any beta version of anything. HAHA.

But, I have had little success using chrome for watching things. Tends to crash watching videos, such as drunk history. (which, btw, you really should watch)

Sold. I'm watching drunk history tonight, but apparently not on Chrome. Google took the beta tag off Chrome today and claims the video problems have been fixed. I suppose we'll see...

[GPWA Teresa]

Fabulous!

The ones with Jack Black are priceless.

Well, if it's not beta, and the video problems have been fixed, you could try it on chrome...

[TheGooner]

I use a lot of different browsers.

I like Google chrome as a general browser when working as it seems to cache your favourite sites and they get faster and faster - certainly it's faster for browsing frequent sites when compared to MS EXplorer and Firefox.

However, their terms of use are a bit onerous, seemingly suggesting that they have copyright to use content you publish with it, so I don't use it for ANYTHING I write including forum content or blogs.

(The word is that these t&Cs are just to allow Google to put things in their index, but THAT IS NOT WHAT IT SAYS in their T&Cs. Still a good broswer though).

[matted]

I use Chrome as my main browser.

As for the Beta - google has a bad habit of calling something "beta" for a year or two after release, it seems!

I like Chrome... very fast. One tab doesn't affect the other... they are all threaded differently (and you will notice it in your task monitor). I have no problems with video or anything - but have yet to find a way to force all movies to play in windows media player versus embeded quicktime or such.

On the downside... No plugins worthwhile yet. No pagerank monitors... my fingerprint scanner doesn't work... and it doesn'thave a traditional menu item (I hate the way it does bookmarks!) Very few options and configuration bits.

But it works and is fast... IE kept crashing on me (I'm in 64 bit Vista) and Firefox was eating up oodles of memory.

-Matt

[universal4]

As each new browser is released, the developers make a larger point of saying how much more "safe" it is to broswe the web using their browser...but they never explain why.

Often it has to do with cookies.

How do the new betas of these browsers do handling the cookies and session variables needed for us to get paid?

Some of the new browser have all cookies turned off by default....what does THAT do for us?

I am not sure if Chrome falls into this category or not, but that, the new IE8 and upcoming Firefox version may affect our business...

Rick
Universal4

[megan isla]

i tried it - its upload faster with simple design but since it didnt support add ons i still stick on using Firefox.

[vinism]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I think I'm going to test drive Chrome over the weekend. I'm sure some shrink would have a field day with this, but when it comes to cars, boats, Internet connections and browsers, I don't think there is any such thing as too fast.

TheGooner writes: However, their terms of use are a bit onerous, seemingly suggesting that they have copyright to use content you publish with it, so I don't use it for ANYTHING I write including forum content or blogs.

(The word is that these t&Cs are just to allow Google to put things in their index, but THAT IS NOT WHAT IT SAYS in their T&Cs. Still a good broswer though).

I have to admit, those T&Cs bother me. I'm going to join TheGooner in not publishing via Chrome as a precaution.

Universal4 writes: As each new browser is released, the developers make a larger point of saying how much more "safe" it is to broswe the web using their browser...but they never explain why.

Often it has to do with cookies.

How do the new betas of these browsers do handling the cookies and session variables needed for us to get paid?

Some of the new browser have all cookies turned off by default....what does THAT do for us?

I am not sure if Chrome falls into this category or not, but that, the new IE8 and upcoming Firefox version may affect our business...

This is a point that I hadn't considered, and I think it merits a lot more discussion, from both affiliates and affiliate programs. How does everyone handle the release of new browsers? Do they test, retest and fix? What should the procedure be for both affiliates and affiliate programs?