Ahh, Chrome is doing page pre-fetching for browsing speed-enhancing. You can accomplish this in FF with the (IIRC) FasterFox add-on.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google has a spot on their Chrome site on how to use Visual Studio to modify > the open source code. > > > > From: Ben Schorr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:50 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: What no chrome? > > > > My understanding is that Chrome doesn't have an add-on functionality like FF > has. > > > > Of course Chrome is Open Source so it may be that we're going to see other > forks of the Chrome code with changes/improvements. > > > > Ben M. Schorr > Chief Executive Officer > ______________________________________________ > Roland Schorr & Tower > www.rolandschorr.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Lenny Bensman > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:35 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: What no chrome? > > > > "... before final release..." - I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. > GMail that's been out for I believe at least 4 years is still "beta." No, > it is not really beta by my definition, but either Google has forgotten to > update the graphic, or more likely they never plan to come out of beta. And > it still lacks quite a bit of functionality compare to many mature mail apps > (not, however, to belittle the good features that they have that others > lack). Same goes for many other offerings: It seems like they roll out a > promising app, but it remains as such with only minor incremental updates. > > > > But with the browser's missing functionality will probably be plugged up by > 3rd party just like FF has... > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Tim Vander Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > If you call 2 years ago "just released"...then yes it was just released. It > was released fall of 2006. And I found Chrome to be no faster than IE8, add > in the lack of RSS features and it is DOA in my opinion. That said, I'm > certain that Google will add additional features before final release, but > their feature set right now is really lacking. > Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:03 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: What no chrome? > > Except that it's about 20x as fast and uses less than 1/2 the memory. Did > anyone notice the "Task Manager" in Chrome? That's what I call going for > the jugular. > > The more Microsoft tries to prove that they "get it" the further they fall > behind. Wasn't IE7 just released? Was that just a gigantic "Oops" or > another MS fart into the wind? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Vander Kooi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:23 AM > Subject: RE: What no chrome? > > >> Not to mention that every one of the "hot new features" that they >> trumpet already exist in SP2 of IE8. At least I haven't found >> anything that it does that IE8 doesn't. > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
