chrome… c’mon
So I did what every other self-respecting geek has done in the past couple days… downloaded and installed chrome. I love my firefox experience at the moment (I have the exact add-ons/plugins I want/need to make browsing pleasurable and fast), but I thought I’d give it a shot.
However, I was greeted with this (and I can’t seem to get anything other than this at the moment). Yes, I tried pressing reload or going to another page… didn’t work.
That flat-out stinks (not because I personally can’t use it, but because I’ve got no idea what to do to fix it, or what went wrong). Do I have to restart first? Do I have to install some WebKit thing first? Do I have to <insert other thing I shouldn’t have to do here> first?
Maybe I’m just clueless, but this was a bad first impression.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Humm.. I installed chrome on two computers yesterday without a problem. Are you behind a proxy?
I’ve always loved Mozilla / Firefox and I kinda feel like I’m cheating on Firefox for using Chrome. But so far I’m impressed. It’s very fast and has a nice clean interface. I does suck up memory… which is expected with the way it was designed. (I’m actually posting this with Chrome).
It also has built in Google Gears support… if you’re into offline access of your Google Apps.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Ha, you’re hosed! I have heard legend of this frowny face you depict, but it’s only supposed to happen when one of the subprocesses dies. Apparently it’s dying just trying to show the homepage. You shouldn’t have to install anything.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
By the way, Jon, despite the lameness of it not working on your system, I don’t think you’re missing much in the near term. FF3 is pretty fast and has a good location bar. I’ve never had problems with FF security. And like you said, you’ve got it dialed.
I bet FF deploys their new JavaScript VM before Chrome deploys anything matching FF’s plugin system.