I love Google Chrome. It’s fast and minimalistic. However, I had to “ditch” it simply because it freezed a lot, especially on pages with Flash movies. Recently I noticed however, that the latest development beta version, Google Chrome 0.3.154.3 has been quite stable and hasn’t freezed on me so far, yet.
If you’re having problems with Google Chrome freezing every now and then on pages with Flash movies (or Flash based web sites), I’d recommend you to update to version 0.3.154.3 (or newer). If you download Google Chrome from the official page, though, you will not get this version as it’s not officially released by Google yet. You have to “switch” your Google Chrome to receive updates from the developer channel, as explained on my previous post here.
On this version, you may also notice that whenever you are downloading an executable (EXE) file, Google Chrome “Save As” dialog will show unconfirmed_SOMENUMBERS.download as the name of the file. This is not a bug (I thought it was). Google Chrome actually tries to warn you that you are going to download an executable file. If you proceed, the file will be renamed back to its original.
Google Chrome will display a warning on the bottom left of the browser before you can download the executable file.
So far, Google Chrome has been promising and constantly being updated every single day by its developers. I’m sure the next major update of Google Chrome will be more exciting.
Are you still using Google Chrome as your primary browser?
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I love Google’s Chrome speed and simplicity, but right now, I’m staying with Firefox. It’s too good to simply switch to a browser by Google (which is also great, since it’s made by Google, but not as great as Firefox) when I can check all my messages from all my Gmail account at the same time, have new blog posts from all my subscribed feeds open in new tabs, and just – everything in Firefox. xD
i’m still on v2.149.30. guess i should change to the developmental version to get all the goodies like greasemonkey and more stability.
Google Chrome is still sketchy, I am sticking with my trusty Firefox(2.x version). It’s the ultimate browser with it’s speed & powerhouse of extensions
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Oh yes, Google Chrome is my primary browser now. I love the minimalistic look and how smooth it is when I move the tab bar.
I haven’t updated anything since my first download. But since you said this version is quite stable (no more sudden freeze), I will give it a try.
nice, maybe i’ll retry it on sat. or sunday. i used it for QUITE a while (2 hours XD) before i uninstalled it.
just one question though, is there a full screen mode now? thx
I must try Google Chrome. I fail to install when they launch few weeks back. So I’m going to re install back…hope no problem with my computer.
yes its pretty stable as per my experience
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Chrome rocks! But one thing I had trouble is to import the favorites/bookmarks… to these types of updates, that’s why I remained with the old version.
Another interesting thing is that it’s really bad using flash player, but if it freezes and I right-click on the browser at the taskbar, it fixes the problem
Yeah, Google Chrome rocks
I just can’t wait for them to release new updates! Google is always slow when it comes to releasing official updates to their services!