Is Chrome Really Faster? Does It Work Well with Carrier Sites?

[somarco]

Re: Is Chrome Really Faster? Does It Work Well with Carrier Sites

My biggest knock on Chrome is all the crap it stores on your computer about sites visited. If you don't clear out the .tmp files on a regular basis you will think you are working with an 8066 processor and 64k.

 

[0b1kanobee]

Re: Is Chrome Really Faster? Does It Work Well with Carrier Sites

Get the extension for chrome here:
chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hehijbfgiekmjfkfjpbkbammjbdenadd

Then you setup the list of sites you need to render in IE; whenever you browse to those domains in the future, it will automagically use the IE engine.

Thanks....I just downloaded it. QUESTION.....do you have to be signed up and logged in to use it? It has something about sign up and log in. I can see the E tab. Do I now need to create an account or something?

 

[dgoldenz]

Re: Is Chrome Really Faster? Does It Work Well with Carrier Sites

The IE extension for Chrome has always given me problems when trying to use company sites.

 

[WinoBlues]

Re: Is Chrome Really Faster? Does It Work Well with Carrier Sites

My biggest knock on Chrome is all the crap it stores on your computer about sites visited. If you don't clear out the .tmp files on a regular basis you will think you are working with an 8066 processor and 64k.

Doesn't disk clean up and do that automatically?

 

[0b1kanobee]

Re: Is Chrome Really Faster? Does It Work Well with Carrier Sites

My biggest knock on Chrome is all the crap it stores on your computer about sites visited. If you don't clear out the .tmp files on a regular basis you will think you are working with an 8066 processor and 64k.

Aren't you supposed to clean out files or whatever with all these browsers?

I use Chrome and I am noticing some 'lag' or 'slowness'. I wonder if I need to do something? last time I emptied something, all the little icons in the middle of the screen (pictures of sites I visit) disappeared and it took a while for them to show up again. Wish there was a way to keep them in the home screen without erasing them.

 

[somarco]

Re: Is Chrome Really Faster? Does It Work Well with Carrier Sites

I use Crap Cleaner about once a month to get rid of any extraneous files.

 

[Guest]

Re: Is Chrome Really Faster? Does It Work Well with Carrier Sites

I use the Apple MobileMe cloud solution. It cost $99 a year but it works well... a poor-mans Exchange Server and file storage facility all in one.

YMMV.

 

[speckledpig]

Re: Is Chrome Really Faster? Does It Work Well with Carrier Sites

Thanks....I just downloaded it. QUESTION.....do you have to be signed up and logged in to use it? It has something about sign up and log in. I can see the E tab. Do I now need to create an account or something?

Not sure about that; I don't have to log into anything to use the IE Tab extension.

When I first started using it, it crashed the browser when I tried to click on a PDF file in one of the IE-rendered pages. They have released an update that has apparently resolved this, as PDFs work just fine now.

 

[ksigmtsu]

Re: Is Chrome Really Faster? Does It Work Well with Carrier Sites

I use the Apple MobileMe cloud solution. It cost $99 a year but it works well... a poor-mans Exchange Server and file storage facility all in one.

YMMV.

Similar solution can be had from google apps. google.com/a for 50$ per year per user account. Includes document applications, upgraded email service with no ads, enterprise server delivery, customizable spam filtering server side, calendar, etc. Some of the features are hard to set up, even using their tutorials, it's built for a web developer basically. Most of it isn't hard to set up and works very well.

I use it instead of microsoft office now.

Probably something else out there cheaper and more expensive.

 

[Guest]

Re: Is Chrome Really Faster? Does It Work Well with Carrier Sites

Similar solution can be had from google apps. google.com/a for 50$ per year per user account. Includes document applications, upgraded email service with no ads, enterprise server delivery, customizable spam filtering server side, calendar, etc. Some of the features are hard to set up, even using their tutorials, it's built for a web developer basically. Most of it isn't hard to set up and works very well.

This looks like a good deal. Nice thing about MobileMe is that setting it up for syncing is two mouse clicks on a Mac. I'm not sure about the Windows platform. I think the only Mac app that Windows users come into contact with is iTunes. Maybe a few use Safari browser (I use Firefox on my Mac most of the time.)

Apple is very into "ease of use" but you PAY for it out the ...

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