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Google Chrome now available for Android phones or tablets

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#1 SoNyDiGiTaL

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 07:35 PM

A few hours ago Google struck again. After they dedicated they're Logo to the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens they released a beta version of their webbrowser Chrome. It has been awaited by Android users with impatience.

The browser fits perfectly well into the OS and increases the fun one has with an Android device. And that's mainly the reason why it delayed for so much months. Google wanted their browser to be perfect and compatible with every Android device.
They never wanted to release a "light" version of Chrome but only a full-working containing loads of features.

Chrome works a s fast as on desktop computers and is as reliable. It should replace the static webbrowser pre-installed on Android devices which was inferior to Chrome and other browsers available from the Android Market.

Features:

-If you're a Chrome user on a desktop computer you can sync your bookmarks once you signed into your Google account.
-Access the same tabs you left open you you home computer
-Previous searches are saved too
-Prediction meaning typing few words of the webpage you'd like to visit and Google guesses (often right) the webpage you want to visit

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#2 iCookie

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 08:29 PM

Will it be released on iOS?

where is Ethan?

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#3 SoNyDiGiTaL

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 08:32 PM

No. I have no knowledge of it being even planned so far. Sorry I would want Google Chrome too.

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 08:45 PM

I fell out with chrome as soon as it ****ed about with my magic mouse!

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#5 SoNyDiGiTaL

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 09:07 PM

hmm doesn't **** up for me :b

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 09:20 PM

You need a magic mouse to see the problems.

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#7 SoNyDiGiTaL

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 09:27 PM

what's the problem with it?

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#8 Chris230291

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 09:50 PM

chromes gestures interfere with apples and cant be turned off. i dont even know how to activate the forwards/backwards gestures in chrome, but sometimes it just does it when you go to grab the mouse. its stupid :/

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 09:56 PM

It's amazing! Don't know why but normal rendering is disabled on Ice Cream Sandwich's browser so some pages look extremely retarded. Chrome renders pages perfectly and increases the size of text. It's so much better than the stock ICS browser.

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#10 SoNyDiGiTaL

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 10:03 PM

Overall chrome on Android is way better than any othe browser on ios.

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 10:07 PM

SoNyDiGiTaL, on 07 February 2012 - 10:03 PM, said:

Overall chrome on Android is way better than any othe browser on ios.

Any browser on Android too.

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#12 Chris

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 10:12 PM

This is how the stock browser displays Engadget.

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There's so much wasted space. The article just cuts off halfway across the screen and starts a new line. I can change the rendering by typing in about:debug in the address bar and selecting Normal Rendering to fix that issue and then it looks like this.

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But the text is still pretty small so I still have to zoom in a little or get really close. And every time I close the browser, I have type about:debug in the address bar to fix the rendering. I'm not sure if this is a bug in ICS's browser or if it's intentional but it's pretty annoying. Chrome is so much better.

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Text is big and easy to read. And everything looks great. 😊

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#13 B4NND1T

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 11:10 PM

Deffenitly a worthwhile improvement.

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