How To Use Google Chrome
I think Google Chrome is an amazing web browser. I found it to be very simple to use, quick, stable, and very secure. I am glad to discover that Google has released a guided tour on how to use Google Chrome on their blog.
If you’re interested in getting the most out of Google Chrome, I recommend jumping over to their Google Chrome blog and check out their guided tour. Also, it would be helpful if you took a moment to pick up a free RSS subscription.
My only problem with Google Chrome is that its not available for Mac. I’d like to see Google take more effort to get the browser Mac compatible. I mean seriously… how hard could it be to make Google Chrome Mac or Linux compatible?
in reference to: Google Chrome Blog: A guided tour for new Google Chrome users (view on Google Sidewiki)
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I like using Google Chrome. It's fast and has few plug ins.
Google chrome is faster but i prefer Mozilla
I like using Google Chrome..Its robust..!!
how hard would it be to make Google Chrome Mac or Linux compatible?
not hard at all if Google Chrome were written in a programming language like 'C'. C source code can be compiled into an application on any system with a C compiler — most. take the C source code, move it over to another system, clean up line endings and whatnot then, run the “make” command, run the “build” command then “install”.
also not difficult if Chrome were written in a programming language like Java. Java runs on Windows computers, on Macs on Linux and on any computer for which Sun (owners of Java) have written a JVM (java virtual machine) for — again, most.
but Google didnt write Chrome in C or in Java. they wrote it in a language specific to Windows so it'll be basically impossible to “port” to a completely different type of operating system, like a Mac has or Linux has, and will basically have to be re-written from scratch for any other computing platform or operating system.
Mac and Linux have quite similar operating system engines under their picto-graphic interfaces — a lot like the robust somewhat old fashioned “unix-like” server oriented operating systems that run most websites on the internet (check http://www.netcraft.com for stats). Windows, on the other hand, uses MS-DOS under its interface and MS-DOS was never meant to do what its doing today — hence viruses and a ton of other problems which third party companies write products for (firewall, anti-virus, spyware checkers, etc).
i read a reaction to a question from one of Google founders about why Chrome doesnt work on a Mac and he basically acknowledged that it didnt and said it was “embarrassing”.
if you want a web browser that works on “every” operating system … try Opera. written in Java. quite fast and good. free download of course.
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