Okey, I know that its clear apparence, makes chrome such a good web navigator. And I must admit I love its simpleness. So, what I should suggest would be to implement the good features of the google toolbar into google chrome, as a simple option of itself. That's to say, for example you could choose if you want to have the hilighted search, or for example the trastation utility, which I sicerely find essential since I am Spanish and I read a lot of English websites.
Thank you very much for the effort, and once again: congratulations on such a good a application! On Sep 5, 10:10 pm, Paul B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been a great fan of Google since I first bought a computer. Until > this entire involuntarily addition to the iGoogle experiment, I've > been extremely loyal to Google and use many of the services they > offer. One reason this is so is that Google is very good at getting a > product right before releasing a finalized version. So, I'm willing to > be patient with Chrome. When the Mac version is released, I'll install > it and offer opinions and suggestions in the hope that they'll help > improve the browser. Which, really, is all I'm trying to do, now. > > On Sep 5, 3:07 pm, "Daniel Hagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was trying a Mac just the other day and the first thing I did was install > > FF3 on it, so I know what you mean. > > Expansion is great, but it's also a plague of development, or sorts. Once > > and API is developed, you have to support what you put in the original, even > > when those ideas become... Unneeded/outdated/unwanted. Or, you have to be > > aggressive, which can tend to scare people off. I think this is part of the > > downfall of IE (and Windows), in that they try to support everything. > > > But, we need the expandability. I just hope, like Chrome itself, we can come > > up with an innovative solution to it. And we need to keep in mind that this > > is also a rather major component of Android. To sell to this project, I > > think we're all going to have to keep in mind the mobility and resource use > > factors. > > > Daniel > > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Paul B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > No worries. > > > I think you're on to something, though. Now, admitting that I can only > > > go by what I read in the forums, I have a thought. > > > I've been using Firefox for years. When I switched from a PC to a Mac, > > > the first thing I installed was Firefox. While FF has many fine > > > features, my main reason for continuing to use it is it's flexibility. > > > I can customize it for exactly what I use and need. Admittedly, Chrome > > > is in Beta, but I think that the more flexibility it offers, the more > > > you can customize it for your needs, the more likely people are to try > > > it. So, I think your ideas have merit and those who are working on > > > Chrome should include and expand on them. > > > > On Sep 5, 2:06 pm, "Daniel Hagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I did see that, and I'm looking for a solution for you. > > > > Someone mentioned bookmarkinghttp://www.google.com/bookmarks/orsetting > > > it > > > > as your homepage. That's a simple, yet not very elegant, solution. > > > > > Also, manipulating Bookmark's API is fairly easy, and producing an XML > > > file > > > > with the bookmarks is a URL away. So if we had an XML bookmark importer, > > > > you'd be set. > > > > But that doesn't solve syncing with Bookmarks. It allows download, but > > > not > > > > easily upload (a Javascript bookmark to automatically add the current > > > viewed > > > > page might work alright, but is less than ideal). > > > > > I'm looking at different possibilities of designing a Google Bookmarks > > > > integration. First thing that comes to mind is, of course, just using > > > > all > > > > the bookmarks and labels in the account, downloading them and displaying > > > > them in the bookmarks bar. A starting point, maybe, but not necessarily > > > the > > > > best choice. We could make a "live folder" that is synced up with the > > > server > > > > and only bookmarks within it are synced. This might make more sense for > > > > organization and privatizing bookmarks (some bookmarks may be for work, > > > some > > > > for home, and the mixing of both may not be desired). > > > > > Also, there's handling the Google Account. The toolbar takes care of > > > > this > > > > with the status/login feature on the right side of the bar. I don't > > > > think > > > we > > > > want something like that. My gut instinct is to suggest adding a "Google > > > > Features" tab to the options dialog for the browser. This would allow > > > > the > > > > user to specify authentication details and check mark the services s/he > > > > would like to integrate, bookmarks being one of them. It would also be a > > > > good idea to have an area for specifying when and how often to sync. > > > > Especially if this is going to be used on Android. A user might be just > > > fine > > > > with syncing up his bookmarks every time s/he starts up 'Droid, but that > > > > takes bandwidth, and I think all users would be glad if we assisted in > > > > limiting the excessive bandwidth usage. Do you do it daily? Weekly? I > > > think > > > > it would be fair to say that every time a user adds a bookmark, that the > > > > whole list is updated. Also (I'm not sure of this, because I haven't > > > looking > > > > into Bookmark's API too much yet), it might be possible to check the > > > > HTTP > > > > Modified header of the bookmark XML file, or some such tool to see if a > > > full > > > > sync is needed. Of course, I'm quibbling about minuscule data amounts. > > > The > > > > whole XML file is no bigger than most HTML files, but data optimization > > > > begins at the bottom. > > > > > Sorry for the long message. I started by trying to answer the below > > > reply, > > > > but this turned more into my writing out my thoughts on such an > > > integration. > > > > Anyone have comments on my proposal? > > > > > -Daniel > > > > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Paul B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > Daniel, > > > > > Perhaps you didn't notice that I said I'm on a Mac and there is no > > > > > version of Chrome for Mac, yet. However, since my primary reason for > > > > > wanting to have the toolbar is because I store all of my bookmarks on > > > > > it, if there is a way to simply have those bookmarks imported directly > > > > > to Chrome, that would work for me. > > > > > > On Sep 5, 12:18 pm, Daniel H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I just grabbed the source last night trying to find out just how > > > > > > easy > > > > > > it would be to implement Google Bookmarks (and potentially other > > > > > > services. I'm still looking around, though. (And VC++ 2008 Express > > > > > > is > > > > > > baulking at the project files. Looks like I'm missing some .vprops > > > > > > files. :-/) > > > > > > > But since this thread is about the toolbar, and not JUST > > > > > > bookmarks... > > > > > > What do we WANT from the toolbar, and how much is it really needed? > > > > > > > I for one really like the clean appearance of Chrome right now, and > > > > > > I'd hate to add a lot of mess to the system. Bookmarks are easy, as > > > > > > there is already a well designed application of them included > > > already. > > > > > > Word highlighting and searching is fairly well taken care of with > > > > > > the > > > > > > internal page search (have you tried it? I love the highlighting on > > > > > > the V. scrollbar). The rest of the features are automatic linking, > > > > > > spell checking, and buttons. > > > > > > > So what say you? Anything besides bookmarks that you're dying to > > > > > > have? :-) > > > > > > > -Daniel > > > > > > > On Sep 5, 11:10 am, Paul B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I would think that the toolbar would be a must. Especially for > > > someone > > > > > > > like me. I use Firefox (Since Chrome for Mac isn't out, yet) with > > > the > > > > > > > Google toolbar and I store ALL of my bookmarks in the toolbar. It > > > > > > > would be a real pain to have to have both browsers open and have > > > > > > > to > > > > > > > open each of roughly 150 bookmarked sites in FF so that I could > > > copy > > > > > > > and paste them into Chrome, just to bookmark them. > > > > > > > > On Sep 5, 11:03 am, tommylemong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Any plans to implement Google Toolbar into Chrome. 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