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Browsers - Minefield > Chrome!

Been messing around a bit with the new Mozilla beta browser, Minefield - and finding it a lot better than google chrome. For one thing, I've been getting weird problems in google chrome, as I'd mentioned text entry boxes (textarea) are messed, and there seems to be problems with Flash not playing. I haven't had any of those problems with Minefield. Plus it's at least as fast as Chrome. And while most extensions don't work with it yet, it's pretty much certain that they will once it's released. Still no word on extensions on Chrome. And IE? Only the clueless still use that lame pos.... too bad there's so many clueless users out there!

Google Chrome - first impressions

I figured I'd join in all the Chrome posts. Why not? I've been messing with it a little. First, I like the speed, and mostly like the interface. The lack of a search box is a little off-putting at first, but I'll get used to using the location bar for that. It has some neat little features like the task manager and 'inspect element' capability built-in. The "Create application shortcut" functionality is pretty handy as well. Some problems I've noticed - for one I had some weird issues entering text into a text box after I'd resized it. You may have noticed text boxes have little "grab" areas at the lower right that let you resize them... Which is a great idea, but after using it I had problems with characters and lines of text I typed getting messed up, disappearing, etc. I also had a problem with a site I had chrome remember passwords for - it did so, but when I was using the admin back-end of the site to edit user accounts, it would mis...