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Brian Luce · January 30th, 2009, 02:09 AM

I've been using this browser but have noticed it doesn't open certain sites and is super slow opening hotmail. All of a sudden it won't even open this site. Anyone else having issues with Chrome?

Gareth Watkins · January 30th, 2009, 02:53 AM

I had a look when they launched it... still prefer Firefox for 90% of all browsing....seems faster and more user friendly than the others...
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Jeff Harper · January 30th, 2009, 02:54 AM

I'm not using it, but reviews I read early on seemed to be lukewarm, the feeling seemed to be it is a work in progress.

Andy Wilkinson · January 30th, 2009, 06:17 AM

I'm using Chrome most of the time on one windows machine and Safari on a MBP. Yes, it's work in progress but I don't find it particularly slow or anything and it has some features that I really like. Everyone will have a different set of criteria but for me the re-occurring and very serious security issues that frequently plague IE7 make that browser best avoided from now on.

Josh Chesarek · January 30th, 2009, 02:26 PM

Hotmail suddenly works if you identify the browser as safari.

To do this:

right click on google chrome icon that was installed and select properties.

in the box that says target, click there and goto the end of the line. Put a space and then paste the following:

--user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19"

Apply and OK

Hotmail should work most of the time now.

Also keep in mind its still beta so some things are still broke. If you come across a site that works for you in other browsers be sure to use the menu option that says report a broken website so google can try and fix the issue.

So far I have enjoyed the speed of chrome but still use IE 7 and Firefox.

Brian Luce · January 30th, 2009, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Josh Chesarek

Hotmail suddenly works if you identify the browser as safari.

To do this:

right click on google chrome icon that was installed and select properties.

in the box that says target, click there and goto the end of the line. Put a space and then paste the following:

--user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19"

Apply and OK

Hotmail should work most of the time now.

Also keep in mind its still beta so some things are still broke. If you come across a site that works for you in other browsers be sure to use the menu option that says report a broken website so google can try and fix the issue.

So far I have enjoyed the speed of chrome but still use IE 7 and Firefox.

Did MS rig it so Chrome would bog down in hotmail?

Josh Chesarek · January 30th, 2009, 08:44 PM

Cant say that.

I remember similar troubles with Firefox which were eventually worked out.

Microsoft from what I understand have acknowledged the bug but considering the user base of hotmail users also using chrome is probably pretty small so I doubt its a priority. All which is just speculation.

January 30th, 2009, 02:09 AM	#1
Brian Luce Inner Circle Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,290	Google Chrome I've been using this browser but have noticed it doesn't open certain sites and is super slow opening hotmail. All of a sudden it won't even open this site. Anyone else having issues with Chrome?

January 30th, 2009, 06:17 AM	#4
Andy Wilkinson Inner Circle Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Cambridge UK Posts: 2,853	I'm using Chrome most of the time on one windows machine and Safari on a MBP. Yes, it's work in progress but I don't find it particularly slow or anything and it has some features that I really like. Everyone will have a different set of criteria but for me the re-occurring and very serious security issues that frequently plague IE7 make that browser best avoided from now on. __________________ Andy K Wilkinson - https://www.shootingimage.co.uk Cambridge (UK) Corporate Video Production

January 30th, 2009, 02:26 PM	#5
Josh Chesarek Major Player Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Winter Park, FL Posts: 978	Hotmail suddenly works if you identify the browser as safari. To do this: right click on google chrome icon that was installed and select properties. in the box that says target, click there and goto the end of the line. Put a space and then paste the following: --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19" Apply and OK Hotmail should work most of the time now. Also keep in mind its still beta so some things are still broke. If you come across a site that works for you in other browsers be sure to use the menu option that says report a broken website so google can try and fix the issue. So far I have enjoyed the speed of chrome but still use IE 7 and Firefox. __________________ Simple Thought Productions - Life @ 30,000 Words per second

January 30th, 2009, 08:44 PM	#7
Josh Chesarek Major Player Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Winter Park, FL Posts: 978	Cant say that. I remember similar troubles with Firefox which were eventually worked out. Microsoft from what I understand have acknowledged the bug but considering the user base of hotmail users also using chrome is probably pretty small so I doubt its a priority. All which is just speculation. __________________ Simple Thought Productions - Life @ 30,000 Words per second

January 30th, 2009, 02:53 AM	#2
Gareth Watkins Major Player Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: France Posts: 578	I had a look when they launched it... still prefer Firefox for 90% of all browsing....seems faster and more user friendly than the others... G

January 30th, 2009, 02:54 AM	#3
Jeff Harper Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 8,425	I'm not using it, but reviews I read early on seemed to be lukewarm, the feeling seemed to be it is a work in progress.