I cannot install Chrome since my XP does not has SP2. I cannot install SP2 since windows wont allow it to (illegal OS).

Does anybody know a work around?
I heard so many good things about CHROME, cant wait to 'feel' it myself..

Hiren

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Originally posted by hchheda

I cannot install Chrome since my XP does not has SP2. I cannot install SP2 since windows wont allow it to (illegal OS).

Does anybody know a work around?
I heard so many good things about CHROME, cant wait to 'feel' it myself..

Hiren

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Definitely FASTER and better in some sorts, but not in all...

wondering, if anyone tried loading any secured sites (https://__) and its result??

Indeed a great work in the first browser from Googs!

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I read different review of Chrome

http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/490193

Google's Chrome fails to shine in test
New Web browser's preliminary version is outdone by latest edition of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8


NEW YORK–Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" and offers several ways for people to control their Internet privacy settings.

Yet, my initial tests reveal that this "beta," or preliminary release, falls short of Google's goals, and is outdone in an important measure by the latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer.

Chrome is a challenge to Microsoft's browser, used by about three-quarters of Web surfers. But it could equally be called a challenge to Microsoft's Office software suite, because what Google really wants to do is to make the browser a stable and flexible platform that can do everything from word processing and email to photo editing.

To strengthen that effort, Chrome was designed to improve on the way other browsers handle JavaScript. Google's online word processing and spreadsheet programs use this interactive technology, but it's also widely deployed on Web pages to do things like drop-down menus.

At first blush, Google's focus on JavaScript makes sense. JavaScript can eat up computer processor power – and if poorly used by a website, can bring down the browser. Chrome promises that if one browser tab crashes, it won't take down the whole program.

Chrome also has some cosmetic differences from other browsers, like putting the tabs at the top of the window. That's nice, but it's performance that really matters. And this is where its attention to JavaScript might miss the point.

At work, I often have 40 or 50 tabs open in Firefox, grouped in different windows. Frequently, Firefox would slow down all my other applications, then seize up.

At first I thought JavaScript was to blame and blocked it from running. But that made many sites unusable, and the browser still froze.

It turns out the culprit is Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash plug-in. It's the program-within-a-program that plays YouTube videos and those "splash" pages on some sites.

Flash is a tremendous resource hog in Firefox, eating up processor time to the point where there is nothing left for other programs. Merely having a YouTube page open on your screen will suck power from your computer's central processing unit, or CPU.

Luckily, there's an add-on program for Firefox that keeps Flash files from running automatically when a page loads, turning Firefox into a stable, efficient browser.

To a lesser extent Chrome also lets sites running Flash take over your computer's resources. In a way, it's more serious, because unlike with Firefox, there's no way to stop Flash from running. Chrome's controls are bare-bones, perhaps because it's still in "beta."

On the plus side, Chrome allows you to diagnose problems with runaway plug-ins easily, because it tells you exactly which pages are consuming which resources.

So which one comes out smelling like roses? The beta of Internet Explorer 8, released just last week.

When playing a YouTube video, Firefox 3 took up 95 per cent of the CPU time on a three-year-old laptop running Windows XP.

Chrome came in at 60 per cent – still too much. Especially since Google owns YouTube! You'd think it could make its browser work well with that site in particular.

Internet Explorer barely broke a sweat, taking up just a few per cent.

When I told each browser to load eight pages, some of which were heavy with Flash and graphics, Firefox took 17 seconds and ended with a continuous CPU load of 50 per cent – half my available processing power, even if I wasn't looking at any of the pages.

Chrome loaded them the fastest, at 12 seconds, and ended with a CPU load of about 40 per cent.

Internet Explorer 8 loaded in 13 seconds, but with no CPU load.

So while Chrome's performance is a little better than that of Firefox, it is far less useful, because it lacks the broad array of third-party add-on programs like Flashblock. With time, it might catch up, but in the meantime, I'd recommend giving the new Internet Explorer a spin.

"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10030522-56.html


And then................ "Google backtracks on Chrome license terms"

"Google said on Wednesday that it plans to alter contract terms that gave the search provider broad rights to use anything entered into its new Chrome browser."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10031703-56.html


All's well that ends well ???

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In spite of wonderful performance with chrome, I found some of basic bugs which I think they might take care with their first official release

(1) when you are working with one tab only & you close that tab, the whole chrome window closes. This is not the case with IE7. When you close the home tab, a new tab opens with the home page in IE7.

(2) In IE7 when you are doing a search for some thing in a search engines like Job search or even google search & after it gives you some result & if you are not satisfied with those result, you hit the back button & you are again to the search engine page with cursor ready at the end of the string what you were searching & ready to edit the words or adding to it.

In Chrome that is even not the case. When you google some thing & hit back button to add something in the search words in the main page, the cursor disappears. You have to manually click in the search tab to edit the words.

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