That's what my kids would use it for unfortunately.... - Pete Gilbert
It does looks like a giant urinal, but good concept nevertheless. - Winston Teo
I think it looks amazing, i personally have a fantasy about a bathtub i can lay down and stretch my feet and arms out and not hit either end of the tub. - Jason Lowe
Walk-in showers and in-floor bathtubs/hottubs seem much more appealing than this. - Chris White
Something for those relegated to hear what other people have to say about it.. Please.. /whine - embee via fftogo
fonts look ok for what i've seen. it is fast - David Knight
Let's see. Goofy UI - reminds me of early Java desktop Apps. Best thing so far is Safari-like highlighting of active textfields. Uses Cleartype, unlike Safari. No percievable speed differences in GMail or GReader, but my network is the bottleneck here. Nice - will probably stay installed, and that's about it. - Yuvi
fonts OK for me on XP. Scrolling not so good. It jumps too much - Josh Haley
And doesn't support press-middle-button-and-move-cursor-up-down to scroll, just like Safari. Sorry, that does it. - Yuvi
With a name like Chrome I'd expect at least a little bling in the design, dull blues = :-( - David Knight
yeah, no doubt - but hey, it's google...i've yet to see a glorious looking app yet - Zee at WeDoCreative
hmm doesn't seem to allow Facebook pop up thingys. So much for their comic book testing claims - David Knight
ok bored with playing with it, will use some, more if the plugins appear, but FF3 and Flock will do for now - David Knight
thanks for the updated David, much appreciated! I gotta say, i'm impressed with the number of people using Flock... - Zee at WeDoCreative
Did they state a time from on Mac and Linux? - Chris Baskind
Simple and fast, needs plugin ability though to be a Firefox alternative. Javascript engine is super fast. - Jeremy Hall
no, i don't believe so... Frankly, I'm secretly hoping it'll be ages away. I'm already occasionally distracted by safari...I don't want any other browsers competing with FF in my head! - Zee at WeDoCreative
Also use Flock, but Chrome is clean and is using sheds less processor - Pete Gilbert
V8 engine impressive - solid increase in performance speeds vs Firefox 3, IE7 - Dave Martin
As I mentioned in another thread, "Not impressed with the download manager so far. I think I accidentally canceled a download by double-clicking on it." (and I couldn't resume it) - Vincent X
ha, awesome Zio. You're not slowly converting back to a windows boy are ya?? - Zee at WeDoCreative
Minimalistic. Fast. It won't convert those of use who have heavily customized FF w/extensions. OTOH, maybe that's why it seems fast compared to FF... - Eric
I think you're probably right Eric. Everytime I reinstall firefox with no extension it's blazing... - Zee at WeDoCreative
When Chrome is released for the Mac, it best be as fast as it is on a PC! - Michael Forian
there's not a date yet http://googlemac.blogspot.com/... hopefully, not too late... (and no, I'm not going back to windows, I just need parallels for one stupid application ;)) - Zio Bonino
I'm a fan. A big fan. So far, it's rock solid and blazing fast. It imported my Firefox stuff right out of the box, including passwords. It's supremely lightweight, and displays pages equally as well as any other browser I've used. - Bradley McSpinn
mine actually and then gmail + igoogle. :) all worked perflectly - fbrunel
Wow, I'm the only person who hasn't taken it to Friendfeed. I think its because I have FF open in FF3 on this monitor and Chrome in the other. - Simian DA (Amber)
Blog, Friendfeed, Gmail, Google Search, Adobe Kuler - Shey
I think it's the industry's best chance to topple IE. - l0ckergn0me
I'd love to take it for a spin. Is there an ETA for the public release yet? - Ray Metzen
I read the comic book twice, and despite my Safari leanings, I think this one has legs. Question is... if iPhone trumps Android, does Google port it to the iPhone? - Louis Gray
That's not the point. I use Firefox, and want to know why Google, which has a good relationship with Mozilla (apparently) chose to go the Not Invented Here route, when there was an established open source platform to work with. The only thing I can think of is that this is to get a good mobile browser since webkit has proven itself on the iphone. - Deepak
Please let Google release it as an app for the iPhone with Gears, Flash and Java enabled. And please let Apple let them do that! - Tony Ruscoe
I'm still curious about the firefox usage aggrigation project mentioned in the first half of the year, had a techcrunch article but has gone strangely quiet ever since. Some are claiming it'll cover only interface stats and others actual traffic data. - alphaxion
first release will be sep-02. it now seems clear that APIs like safebrowsing [http://bit.ly/3QvWL7] and gears [http://bit.ly/4amra2] were all part of a longer-term strategy to change the game for their app set. - MikeAmundsen
Deepak, the most logical explanation seems to be that Google wants to take Chrome in a direction where Mozilla doesn't want to go. What exactly that is remains to be seen when the thing is released... - Ray Metzen
Deepak, it may be that the Webkit codebase is simply easier to work with. I haven't looked at either in years, but Firefox used to be quite a beast. - Paul Buchheit
Sounds great to have new players on the browser field. But how will the support from Google to Mozilla be affected after Chrome? - Christian Van Der Henst
Ray/Paul, fair enough. I am not saying that the choice is wrong, but I would like to know why. The mobile future is my guess, but it's only a guess. - Deepak
Deepak, that's probably a good guess. Another reason might be that Google apps are more deeply integrated than Mozilla would be comfortable with. - Ray Metzen
I think everybody has the same question. Why Chrome when we have Firefox? Why can't Google extend support to FF? - Rohit Srivastwa
That's bad news for Firefox. The early Google Chrome adopters are likely to be the same people that jumped on early FF as well. But what's more important, I think the idea behind Chrome is to build and position it as an application platform, which FF failed to achieve. - Franci Penov
Looking forward to it. My designer isn't happy though, yet another browser to test not that IE is going away anytime soon. - Angsuman Chakraborty
Paul, thanks for the link, that's illuminating. - Jason Wehmhoener
Frankly I am concerned that Google is becoming more like Microsoft, leaving not much room for small companies to innovate and make a living. - Angsuman Chakraborty
If I had to pay, I'd stop using it. There are many competing services that don't charge. - Morton Fox
Well, normal FriendFeed would still be free, and eventually you would get the same features as the folks paying. What I am really asking is, "Would you pay money to be first into the FriendFeed Beta?" - possible248
If I had to pay for the beta, I would just wait for it to come out of beta. It makes no sense to charge for beta anyway. Don't they want people to test it? - Morton Fox
Independent of FriendFeed, no. If something is a true beta, I'm "paying" with my time testing, finding bugs, giving feedback, and working in a potentially unstable environment. If something is a "pre-release for the cool kids" with the tag beta slapped onto it for good measure, I'll use it if I'm deemed a "cool kid"; otherwise, I can wait. - Joanmarie
yeah, i'd pay. No more than maybe $10 a year. But i'd pay. - Zee at WeDoCreative
Interesting perspective. I came up with this idea in the middle of the night when thinking of possible ways for FriendFeed to generate money. - possible248
i would pay a little but only if FF stayed competitive. Considering however how all the new competitors emerge like mushrooms and are all for free, not sure many would. Feedly is one good example. - Hayk Hakobyan
Tough question for the cheapest person on the Internet - Charlie Anzman
as in real money? how about some of those fancy virtual dollars? - Chris
I keep getting "Service Unavailable
We encountered an error on your last request. Our service is new, and we are just working out the kinks. We apologize for the inconvenience." when I try and do searches. - Thomas Hawk
i use the search function all the time, especially when looking for dupe posts before posting. i haven't experienced any issue in either of the FF sites. - Carlos Ayala
hmmmm.. odd, it seems to be just for me. It's been very intermittent and hit and miss for me for the past few days. I wonder if it has something to do with the number of contacts I have. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas, I have had some issues, especially when searching within someone's feed. - John Worthington
I think it does have to do with how many contacts I have. I can search everyone's feeds fine when I log out, but if I log in I can search everyone's feeds as well but when I try to search just my friend's feeds I get the error message. - Thomas Hawk
worked for me. I searched for the word tax this morning and tore Obama a new asshole. - Noah David Simon
I could be completely wrong on this but might it have something to do with everyone changing their names? - John Worthington
I get that error sometimes when I try to filter by service in someone's feed clicking the service icons. - Alejandro S.
If I search for "photography" on my friends tab right now I still get the error message. Can other people search for "photography" on their friends tab? - Thomas Hawk
i just got the "Service Unavailable" error. However, it didn't happen during a Search. It happened while the page auto-refreshed my feed. - Carlos Ayala
is FF services now begininig to break ? I cant seem to be able to reshare a link. I moved out from Beta and now in prod mode, but still no luck. usng IE7 - Peter Dawson
I have had problems sharing though. that has been going on all week. but search seems to work ok. wish they would tell me who on the search has blocked me. nothing worse then commenting and sitting there waiting. - Noah David Simon
been working for me numerous times - i use it all the time w/ post titles that i read and then want to back and comment on later... - mike "glemak" dunn
I had a weird issue a few days ago that a number of sites gave me a 404, while others worked. I blame my ISP ---- or perhaps my laptop. - Mike Reynolds
its been sort of working for me, but the results are awful in the last week or two. I'm finding it easier to search FF via Google - Duncan Riley
Just this morning I noticed that I am unable to share my links on FF. Dunno if it is a browser problem at my end. - kamla bhatt
I still can't do searches on FF for the term "photography" same service unavailable error message :( One of my favorite things to do is to search FF for good photography related content. - Thomas Hawk
can't search for greasemonkey either. :( Anyone know if there are any good greasemonkey scripts for the new FF beta? - Thomas Hawk
““Guys, i'm trying to make a master list of everyone from Europe on Friendfeed. If you're reading this & obviously living/from anywhere in Europe...I think a simple "Bonjour" or "Ciao" will do!””
Zee - I think there's an entire German speakers' room- that might cover a few who haven't answered yet. (Said she who once lived in Germany briefly but doesn't fit this list.) - Abby Martin
Amazing story that will be remembered LONG after the run of the mill business laptops have been consigned to the bin of history. This has more impact that any of Apple's great design will ever have, with the exception of the iPhone, which I think will eventually change the computing landscape. - Pete Gilbert
Warning - this Google Groups page has been hijacked and seems to contain trojan downloaders and porn. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK ON THE PAGE! - Pete Gilbert
It's a classic and in my house, probably played at least once a day! :) - Emma
Minimium requirement of once daily; see your physician if you're hearing this less than that; alternatively you are allowed to neurotically play it to yourself in your head as well - Pete Delucchi
