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I won't be around later, so I'm force-adding this now.

In the press releases from Google I know that they are looking to add support for the creation and usage of third-party extensions in the future, but am wondering if a timeframe has been set, be it a date or milestone. It's great for someone who wants a slim, fast browser, but at this point it simply lacks the functionality many users need/expect.

Thanks!
John

Just agreeing here to make sure all systems are go.

I've tried out Chrome for a couple of days, and I really like it! My computer has been locking up with a blue screen of death, and I think it's partially because of Firefox and all it's resource hogging.

Anyways, is there a way to enable a smooth scrolling feature, like Firefox? When I use the page up/down button, it's very blocky in its scrolling.

Thanks,
Brad

Check this out:
http://chromespot.com/index.php?topic=319.0

In fact, the Google guys seem to want the Mozilla team to incorporate their code.

However, some fundamentals of the two products are very different. Firefox and Chrome use different rendering engines. They do, however, share code in how they handle media extensions.

Click on the wrench in the upper right of Chrome. Go to Options, and the default browser setting is at the bottom.

You can join community here:
http://code.google.com/chromium/

See this post on PortableApps:
http://portableapps.com/node/15456

Chrome is fresh, based on a relatively new open-source rendering engine called Webkit. Google also wrote a brand new Javascript interpreter, called V8.

The state of the art advances, and the Chrome team was able to use the latest technology for their browser without worrying about the legacy code.

Google is apparently working on Chrome for Linux (and Mac), but hasn't provided a release date. Or month, even.

It's one of those annoying omissions you notice just you're getting comfortable with the new product.

Chrome does an OK job with remembering passwords, at least.

This should help you out. It's the simplest solution I've seen yet.

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=50&topicid=25916

While Rafe will remember me as a computer journalist (and I still do write one article a month for various technology publication), I am now primarily an ISP. We are constantly removing the Google Toolbar from users machines, because it takes up screen real estate, spies on users' browsing, and consumes resources on the users' machines and Internet connections.. One of the biggest concerns we have about a Google browser is that it's likely to build in these annoyances. What do you think?

What rendering engine does this use? Will designers have to worry about page rending/compatibility in yet another web browser?

Does chrome support these features spell checker, pop-up blocker, integrated firewall, download manager and anti virus scanner?