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Google Chrome: Is there anything under the hood?

We want to hear from YOU! Have you had a chance to take Chrome for a test drive? Does it live up to all the browser buzz and hype? Should Microsoft or Mozilla be worried?

Thomas A. Powell of the Network World Lab Alliance, has released his review of Google's new browser here. Check it out and let us know what YOU think.

I hate the way bookmarks are handled

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That is about my only complaint about Chrome.

They should put a link icon in the browser for bookmarks and not try to link everything to the home page.

If I want a different home page (which I do) or I am trying to research something, the bookmarks are either inaccessible or just too much of a pain to deal with.

That in my opinion was a really bad idea.

Did you see the option

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Did you see the option (under the wrench) to always display your bookmarks?

bookmark links as well as on home page

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they are available, just defaulting to hidden as they take up space
try ctrl-b to switch them on/off

I find Chrome to be slow on

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I find Chrome to be slow on loading pages.

Compression

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What is the estimated impact of bzip2 compression on enterprise firewalls? What kind of changes will be required? What kinds of work-arounds can be suggested for help desks and security teams during transition?

This browser is no good.

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This browser is no good. Doesn't support java and other web technologies. Firefox is still the best.

Your brain is no good. One

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Your brain is no good. One of the reasons Chrome was actually made was to handle java and other web technologies much faster than other browsers.

Java != Javascript.

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Java != Javascript.

Chrome tastes like chicken feet

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Cisco Subnet blogger and security expert Jamey Heary says Google Chrome is all bone and no meat.

Jamey finds the security aspects of Chrome wanting and has 4 large security questions for Google.

Read his comments here.

Go to Cisco Subnet for more Cisco news, blogs, discussion forums, security alerts, book giveaways, and more.

google chrome (Don Safar)

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A number of the websites that I use everyday in my work are unworkable in chrome. These include internal and external websites that work in IE and Firefox. I'll use it for certain sites (i.e. gmail) because I like the screen space it affords. But I'll continue to split my main work between IE and Firefox for the time being.

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