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Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: regiment on October 21, 2013, 02:54:56 pm

Title: google ch rome
Post by: regiment on October 21, 2013, 02:54:56 pm

  was told yesterday that if i joined google chrome my lap top will be faster  yes or no  thanks

Title: Re: google ch rome
Post by: dougal99 on October 21, 2013, 03:58:13 pm

I use chrome (no joining required) as my browser. I can't say I've noticed any marked speed improvement (20Meg broadband). Also it doesn't seem to like full screen iplayer etc so I nip back to explorer.


HTH

Title: Re: google ch rome
Post by: grendel on October 21, 2013, 04:45:35 pm

I use sware iron at home ( http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php ), its the same as google chrome, but with all the junk that reports back to google taken out, cant say as I have noticed any speed difference, but then I can get 80Mb/s on my BT infinity anyway.
Grendel

Title: Re: google ch rome
Post by: Steven.T on October 21, 2013, 05:57:25 pm

I've used Chrome for a while now, tonnes better than Internet Explorer in my opinion. You don't have to sign up to it, I only have so I can get my Google calendar and bookmarks linked in!

Title: Re: google ch rome
Post by: malcolmfrary on October 21, 2013, 06:48:10 pm

They probably wanted you to join Chrome Plus, which is a totally different animal to Chrome.  Chrome is a program put out by Google, Chrome Plus is a sort of "community" thing to make it easier for Google to collect and sell your details.  Unless you are seriously into whatever teenage interests that it expedites, I would avoid it totally.
Because of the way that Chrome has bloated itself over the few years that it has been around, I am seriously considering dumping it in favour of the current IE, which, unusually for an MS product, seems to work faster than the opposition.  It certainly uses less resources.

Title: Re: google ch rome
Post by: w3bby on October 21, 2013, 06:50:52 pm

Firefox here on Mac.
I do look around occasionally, tried Chrome, Tor (for those that are paranoid about being tracked..) and a few others.

Download (http://www.filehippo.com/software/internet/browsers/) and try other browsers (http://web.appstorm.net/roundups/browsers/the-ultimate-list-of-browsers/), you may find one that suits you better than the others  :-))

Title: Re: google ch rome
Post by: regiment on October 21, 2013, 08:15:07 pm

  thanks to all who replyed thinks i will stop where i am