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• I'm installing now, didn't even know this was coming. : packav
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  It's a shame it doesn't support greasemonkey or plugins or anything. :[ : CrustaR
  • Yeah, it seems nice, but I can't give up the extensions I have installed for Firefox. : valael
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    ^^^^ yup, as soon as they add extensions I will switch. : byorn
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      At the end of the day, Firefox is fucked isn't it? : Richese
      • Not if they adapt to the market. : dmason
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        It's open source, they are only fucked if they fail to take the good stuff and add it to their own browse... : Visceral Monkey
        • That's a lot easier said than done, especially when it comes to architectural changes. : nudel
      • yes. as a nonprofit, mozilla is fucked and will have to fold. what likely will happen is google will acqu... : Downforce
      • It took Firefox a year or two before it was good enough to switch to, IMO. Chrome is a really solid start... : nudel
      • I doubt google is funding them like 60+ million a year through 2011 from news right before chrome. : whore
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    bloat = why Chrome is better, no? : RikiTiki2
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      i mean, lack of bloat. : RikiTiki2
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        One man's feature is another man's bloat. Or lack of. : nudel
        • and this thing is lacking basic features : dantastic
• It's really nice. Having a variety of good browsers out there is really sweet. : dmason
• oh this is nice : packav
• I really liked it. Not quite good enough to switch from FF yet but as soon as it gets some plugins it'll ... : kelerian
• went to "tomshardware" with gmail up, and the shack, and had all kinds of weird slowdowns.. watching yout... : dextius
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  Do you have any problem browsing various porn sites with it? I'm asking for my friend Pepe. : Utopia
  • trombly hasn't had any issues. : CrustaR
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    There's no "download everything on this page into my Research Archives" extension which is a pretty big p... : nudel
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      There's a plugin that does this for FF? : KxRook
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        DownloadThemAll ? : peetabix01
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          or DownthemAll - www.downthemall.net : peetabix01
          • Oh, I have that. I thought you were talking about... something else. : KxRook
• I thought I was going nuts because of the speed thing. : Rag and Bone Man
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  It is concerning to me they didn't even include an option to have it not log history normally. I'd also l... : cdbeckman
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    Eh? Isn't that what incognito mode is for? Or am I about to be welcomed by a homepage filled with gay ... : Danny5225
    • That works, I just want history and personal info storing turned off in general. It's an option in every ... : cdbeckman
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    Well, they have the private mode and analyzing your history seems to be a big part of its functionality. : Kerath
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      This is my problem with it. I want to turn that shit off, and they're promoting lost privacy as a feature... : cdbeckman
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        It's only lost privacy if it sends the data to google, which I doubt it does. : Kerath
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          I prefer an option to not have it stored locally either. I'm not as big a privacy nut as I'm making mysel... : cdbeckman
          • A "clear history on exit" option would be pretty trivial. It'll probably be available in a custom build. : Kerath
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    Phoning home: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/ We don't let you turn off sto... : Zero|DPX
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      just allow us to sync multiple PCs and it'll be great! : hamachi
      • Don't worry, we are well aware of the utility of that use case! : Zero|DPX
• I'm not sure what to think yet : Fox n Panther
• I haven't had much time to check it out yet, but from what I've heard so far it looks interesting. : MacemanInTW
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  Don't know if anyone mentioned/noticed this yet, but if you ctrl-f and type in some text, it'll mark your... : Haxim
  • ok that is pretty slick : Shadowdane
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  I almost did the same, when I discovered clicking my mouse wheel doesn't let me scroll down like in FF. H... : thedude
  • I'm surprised at how many people mention the middle-click scrolling. I've always found it clunky myself. ... : nudel
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    We will have it someday. Sorry, we've known about this for basically the entire life of the project but ... : Zero|DPX
    • I think you need to fire the guy in charge of prioritizing. : Haxim
    • Huh? It's a web browser, and a new one at that. If it *doesn't* crash then you're doing it wrong! :-D ... : nudel
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    The unofficial word is that it's may be coming soon http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17827152 : Haxim
    • it's AND beaten!? /cry : Haxim
• I installed it 20 min after realease, havent gone back to anything else, lovin it :) : Melll
• it's useless to me until it has cool plugins like firebug, delicious, etc : wtf242
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  I'll use it on my work notebook for the sole reason that it consumes less memory than FF. I'm currently i... : ateam311
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    There's definitely less of a memory imprint, but I think the tradeoff is CPU, I'm seeing a few more CPU s... : RyDogg1
    • I can handle that for now. Honestly the 1GB of memory on my notebook is killing me with all of the progra... : ateam311
• I Love the Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now? even crashing is fun. : Slowtreme
• We need a tweaks/add ons/tips kind of thread. Anything cool we might not know we could do : bozer
• I liked it a lot. I'm probably going to switch completely once there are plug-ins/plug-in support. It... : Danny5225
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  Stop supporting Google. We don't need another megalomaniac corporation in the software industry. : CRasterImage
  • id give my left testicle to google : Chandler55
  • they wont see it till it's self aware : Slowtreme
  • I dunno. With bandwidth limits going up, I still have hope they'll be doing their own wireless ISP in the... : Visceral Monkey
  • No, and yes we do. : indosauros
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    Chrome phones home and ships all you porn viewing to them. Now not only do they have access to your sear... : RyDogg1
    • Are you saying that's hidden somehow so it isn't in the source code? : Kerath
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    no, we need more, make them fight eachother. : NexusOne
    • capitalism is an adversarial system. and you always make your enemies fight each other. : NexusOne
  • lolo : geedeck
  • Google is Skynet. Skynet is Google : .sticks.
  • I would give them my anal gland to support them, I have no use for it, as I dont get any dick. : Melll
  • cry more : Enigme
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    I'm going to use chrome just to spite you. : themaestro2657
    • I just installed two copies on the same computer to spite him. : DrWaffles
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    I think I'm the only person on the planet old enough to remember when people loved Microsoft, too. The... : stratedge
    • Bill gates has always been an asshole though. Now he is a philanthropist asshole. : themaestro2657
  • When google actually does something I don't like, I will stop supporting them. Their products are usef... : PlanetPerfecto
  • Some of you seem to be fans of Google. I can understand that. I was/am too... Up to a point. However... : CRasterImage
• You know what's going to be awesome on this? Quake live. Just create a new tab, select "create applicatio... : Visceral Monkey
• It's a good start, but I think I'll keep with FF for a bit longer. : Fredrik S
• Me too. I'm going to give it at least two weeks of playtime before I make a decision to stay or go back ... : indosauros
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  Give me Chrome's speed on Firefox and I'd say you were 95% of the way to the perfect browsing experience. : jingletard
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    What stuff do you find slow in Firefox? : nudel
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      page loading is almost twice as fast in Chrome as it is in Firefox, and I have no idea why. : jingletard
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        If I notice a page load at all it's usually (at least I assume) due to the network or the server at the o... : nudel
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          I'm on cable and a great example is the chatty - Firefox gets stuck on connecting to some of the servers ... : jingletard
          • Ah, I've got the ads switched off (Mercury) so I guess that's why I didn't notice much different with the... : nudel
          • I wonder if this has more to do with that DNS prefetching option, or does FF have that? : Haxim
    • Opening the browser and loading pages is a lot slower in firefox than chrome for me. : OmegaRed59
• I really dig it, just had to use a custom hosts file since there's no AdBlock. : Penis Brittle
• loaded a page with lots of animated gifs holy shit chrome just ate a bunch of ass. runs slower than FF... : tomatoactivator
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  What kind of traffic is being sent from this thing back to Google? Anyone take a look yet? Those dang h... : geneshifter
  • They only log words with vowels in them. : dmason
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17830461#itemanchor_17830461 TLDR: Fairly little except for things... : Zero|DPX
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      After seeing the cool shit that the MS Office team did with their tracking data (which I always opted out... : nudel
      • You're welcome! Yes, user data answers a multitude of questions. It's basically impossible to really im... : Zero|DPX
• It's damn quick, but I have to have my plugins. We'll see what happens. : Thresher
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  Thread Hijack Okay, I have Chrome on my second monitor, but it goes over top of my Windows Start Menu. I... : stelth
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    I dunno. Put it on your primary monitor? We may make things better here in a future release, we're work... : Zero|DPX
    • I hope so. So far I am digging the sheer speed of this, but this one particular thing annoys the hell out... : stelth
  • Yeah I'm having this same problem with my primary monitor (on Vista). :( : Perturbation
• Yeah.... I'm digging it. Very very fast. : Tripps
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  PROTIP: You can resize the text entry window for new comments on the Shack by dragging the lower right c... : Thresher
  • That is pretty awesome. : arsonide
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    welcome to safari webkit : Slowtreme
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      Welcome to khtml. : Visceral Monkey
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        but khtml sucked before WebKit and KDE is the product of bad design so ha : Yanks
        • I'd lol if I could, but I'm using Chrome. : dmason
        • FFS If it sucked so hard why did webkit use it as a base. : MamiyaOtaru
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    Interesting : Nighteyes
    • Except it doesn't remember your last size setting. : Nighteyes
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  Is there no Home button? I know I can open a new Tab with my Homepage set but what if I just want to hit... : SeanJuan04
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    you can add the home button from the options menu. : c_man_tmt
    • Thanks, I looked all over the place (but obviously missed it before) and all I saw was the place to set y... : SeanJuan04
• <borat> You want touch my Chrom?! </borat> : nudel
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  I think its well done, and my hat goes off to ZeroDPX on his involvement with it, but I'm not buying it a... : Antilles_Prime
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    FWIW a lot of the "fanboys" are much more positive than I am. Firefox 3 does some things better than us ... : Zero|DPX
    • well, that is pretty much what I was thinking as well --- I think you guys did a good job executing your ... : Antilles_Prime
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      Wait, should we honestly believe that Google won't put forth major support for a product that does well? ... : MercFox1
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        Yes, I've been on this one from the beginning. Menus... we were trying to trim every bit of UI we poss... : Zero|DPX
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          I have to applaud the "full screen" view feeling it gives off. : hirosushima
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            If you haven't already, run it in maxmized mode. It is WAY THE HECK BETTER that way. : Zero|DPX
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              What do you mean, exactly? Like F11 type maximized? : mafu5150
              • No, just like maximize-the-window maximized. Shrinks the top bar down so that tabs are flush with the to... : Zero|DPX
            • Err, how? I'm stupid :( : Visceral Monkey
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              i'm not at my PC to try it, but please tell me you can whip the cursor to the top of the screen and click... : electroly
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                Yes, you can. Fitts' Law FTW :) : Zero|DPX
                • And can you throw the mouse to the top right and click the close button? : MamiyaOtaru
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  Meh, I see no reason to switch. I only moved to FF in the last 6 months and Chrome, while neat, hasn't sh... : Fred Garvin
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    And now it's crashing on me on every other link I click on. Like total crash, not even an error report to... : Fred Garvin
    • oh dont worry about sending error reports google is already watching through skynet : Chandler55
  • if you've only switched to FF in the last six months, i don't think this is a browser you'll want to touc... : gokart.
  • ^^^ burning chrome : Dave-A
• I just fired it up for the first time. Holy shit is it fast. Wow. : baconisgod
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  Chrome is very sexy. I can't wait to see what it's like in a year or two. : Horn
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    in a year or two, it'll be slow and bloated like FF is starting to look like. No software survives use... : TPSReport
    • I hope not -- we have a few ruthless people here on the team -- but if so, well, then in another five yea... : Zero|DPX
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  All newly introduced browsers are fast. Initially. : slacko
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    We do slow down over time (slightly) and take more memory, due to more data in SQLite. I don't think the... : Zero|DPX
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      i think he means performance regressions version-to-version. : electroly
      • We have a number of automated performance tests, and our goal is not to get worse :) : Zero|DPX
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      Does the process structure improve performance on multicore systems? : Kerath
      • In some scenarios, yes. When you have multiple tabs that load the CPU heavily, we can make more efficien... : Zero|DPX
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  Is this thing gonna be in permanent beta like google mail? : retardhumper
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    No. We already have a plan for when and how we will make it out of beta. : Zero|DPX
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      So Google Mail has no such plan and will be beta forever? : semaphore
      • I have no idea what Gmail's plans are, I have no connection with that team. : Zero|DPX
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  I'm not seeing this huge performance boosts that everyone else seems to see :( It actually seems slower ... : bad_fish
  • Crazy talk. CRAZY TALK. : Visceral Monkey
  • Same here. : lightly inclined
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    We can be slower for several reasons: * If you block ads in other browsers, they can be faster, since ad... : Zero|DPX
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      - When scrolling in a page it doesn't seem to be able to keep up and has graphical "lag" - It seems like... : bad_fish
      • We struggle to do optimized scrolling in a few cases, such as pages with windowless plugins. We have som... : Zero|DPX
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    I agree with you. I haven't noticed much of a speed increase, if at all. But I think that has more to do ... : zerog83
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      I really like the "full screen" feel of it when it's maximized, though. It's such a clean browser that I ... : zerog83
      • and apparently maximized mode doesn't like the auto-hide taskbar in Vista (64-bit, SP1). It works the fir... : zerog83
• The link bar, or whatever it is called, is kind of annoying in a page like shacknews... Scrolling over ch... : davidc02
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  Chrome is pretty fancy, but there's no way I'd use it as it is right now. : aldraek
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    k lol, here's why: I like the default new-tab page, I like the different tab-closing options. the minimal... : aldraek
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      What does "no instantly accessible bookmark button" mean? You can hit the star next to the URL to bookma... : Zero|DPX
      • Personally I would like the "Other bookmarks" button to be on the main bar near the option buttons so tha... : gia-
      • Sorry. What I mean is there is no way to access bookmarks without having the bar open. What I would like ... : aldraek
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  Why Chrome and not Opera then? : Pettytheft
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    I hate opera. Can't put my finger on it, but I've tried every version that has come out and I just can't ... : Visceral Monkey
    • We tried hard not to suck :) : Zero|DPX
• How do you turn off the annoying popup on the bottom when you hover over links? : Pettytheft
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  So eh.. seeing as google as multiple products that report back to HQ what you're browsing, what's the ski... : festivalman
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17830461 : Zero|DPX
• Speed doesn't really replace usability for me, so I'll stick with Firefox for a long while to come. My br... : mittense
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  TAB doesn't take you to the next autocompletion in the Omnibar. That is UNACCEPTABLE. >:( : dodob
  • No, it doesn't. Tab means too many other things. Use down arrow. : Zero|DPX
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  No mac version. Means I can't get too excited. Mac version is supposed to be coming sometime. So is Ma... : Wasp
  • What? Traitor! You're supposed to be using only Apple approved apps. What about Safari, etc? : Visceral Monkey
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  A+ on the speed. I went to sites like IGN and xbox.com that usually slow the browser way down -- nope. Ch... : Madwacker
  • the only performance issue i've witnessed is ironically on google maps. : cpt_gloval
• i used it for a bit at work and yeah, i downloaded and made it my primary browser when i got home : cpt_gloval
• Yeah, speed is great, probably has something to do with not loading half the shit on a page... : heartsauce

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  I hope someone got defriended/dumped/divorced/decapitated over that. : A Sponge
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    Definitely a deplorable, detrimental (and disposable) use of delicious delicate dough dressing. : Richese
    • /canned laughter : SlamDunk
    • * D F O R D E N T E T T A ' D * : coldfusioncs
  • I'm glad we found a theme. Cake is delicious, delectable, and desired. Let's stick to our theme. : FS|Archangel
• oh my god that's so awesome : Jstroh
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  i bought that shirt for my gf. she really liked it and wears it all the time. : wytchsansmerci
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    dammit. posting on my girlfriends computer. i keep forgetting she shacks now. sigh. : wytchsansmerci
    • cough*whipped*cough : FS|Archangel
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      MY GIRLFRIEND'S COMPUTER . : moe6
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        So, if I said I was using your gf's "computer" last night... you wouldn't be pissy? : FS|Archangel
        • Sorry man. Your "drive" isn't hard enough for me. : wytchsansmerci
    • world's = colliding : Flying h4x0r
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  would have been better with just #F00 and #00F. less cluttered. Plus that kinda spells foo and oof, two a... : thecray
  • Oh wow... you out nerded the nerd post. You... you are special my friend. : FS|Archangel
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  I prefer www.cakefarts.com : soggybagel
  • whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat : felicia

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  Any difficult, uber-modern websites taking advantage of the latest web languages that might trip google c... : nientiendo
  • the app I'm working on at work is pretty complex client-side, and it runs amazingly well on Chrome. There... : MikkleThePickle
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  I miss the status bar. :( : baffula
  • Really? I don't at all, at least not in a browser. Now if it was a Windows Explorer window, it would have... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    That alone is a deal braeker. That super-annoying fading popup is distracting and seizure-inducing. : GreatGooglyMoogly
    • I agree with less dramatic flair : gakera
    • I had to stop using chrome because of that, it's distracting and somewhat annoying. : rhuntley12
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  pretty fast. installed it this afternoon and no complaints so far. wish i could scroll with middle clic... : dopeman
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    I wish it has a bookmark thing. I know the omnibar has it, but I don't remember all my bookmarks. : DarkWolf5
    • Oh never mind, turns out it had failed to import my bookmarks the first time. : DarkWolf5
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  been using it for a few minutes. Seems fast, no middle click scroll anymore (I wonder why). I have high h... : nientiendo
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    Why? Because we didn't get around to it. : Zero|DPX
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      I realize its not something that breaks a browser, but is it really that difficult to program? I can't th... : acidnynex
      • Yes, it has to be coded from scratch in every application. We'll probably get this for free when we sy... : Zero|DPX
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      So since you were apparently involved in Google Chrome, why does your profile have the link http://www.ge... : valael
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        Because I haven't updated my profile yet. : Zero|DPX
        • Really awesome browser man. Fast as hell and the UI is fantastic. Just wish there was support for plugins... : strife
      • hes gonna update it to www.getvista.com ;) : Chandler55
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  I'm really liking it. It's so unobtrusive. I thought I would miss my firefox extensions but so far it has... : aeg1x
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    one thing I miss is the ability to just click the star and leave a bookmark in an unsorted folder. I don'... : aeg1x
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      Um, that's exactly how things work for us. Click star, don't do anything else, it gets left in "other bo... : Zero|DPX
      • yeah but it still gets left in other bookmarks. In firefox if you click the star the bookmark isn't even ... : aeg1x
• i like the interface quite a bit and the performance is good. : Mansmells
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  I just realized you can resize text areas (such as the box I type this in) which is kinda neat, but it br... : SilverSnake
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    And I haven't found an option to turn off auto-resize of images. :( : SilverSnake
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      No such option. Probably never will be. : Zero|DPX
      • Dunno if it's just me, but clicking my mouse wheel doesn't give me an "auto scroll" thing, like most othe... : SilverSnake
      • o_O of all things, why? : Maarten Goldstein
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        WTF ???? are you insane ? you should never *force* auto-resizing on anyone. Not using 1:1 pixel aspect wi... : BigT
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          uh guys relax, he means that images will resize automatically but of course you can zoom to full size wit... : nomaad
          • ah ok, then I misunderstood, I only ran Crome for an halfhour or so, but for some reason everything was s... : BigT
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            That's still bad. : GreatGooglyMoogly
            • I guess maybe if you have a dry vagina that gets even dryer over stuff like this : nomaad
    • Also a deal breaker. : GreatGooglyMoogly
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  My thoughts: Much better than I thought it would be. Pretty fast, but not faster than Firefox. One p... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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    How do you mean, not faster than Firefox? Generic browsing seemed quite a bit faster for me, the app load... : MikkleThePickle
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      Javascript performance might've been faster. I didn't test that. Regular page loading was marginally slow... : GreatGooglyMoogly
      • Both cached pages and server refreshes, I should add. : GreatGooglyMoogly
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    I miss those features too. FF addons really spoil us. It's at least as fast as FF though, maybe they'll a... : node
    • Yeah, that's what I like most about this, that it's open source. : GreatGooglyMoogly
  • time to steal more options that Opera has :) : mrseldowski
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  It sucks. No global page zoom for us 24"ers. I like my pages zoomed in automatically at 140%. Nice & bi... : Optimus Prime
  • Hmm that sucks... By "global page zoom" do you mean a zoom that scales text and images while preserving l... : MikkleThePickle
• i get the welcome splash and that dissapear and then nothing... : dfz0r
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  I don't want another browser and, honestly, am tired of google, whatever that means. But I hope it's ... : thief
  • Other than search, I do not use any of Google's products. Their UI's suck. They still live in this text... : Optimus Prime
• no mac version. google suck : CoRDS
• Very fast but has the flash video freeze problem. I'm really digging it but need to know what are they g... : dael
• any of you guys use webct? Holy shit it's a million times faster and more responsive. It was a total pig ... : aeg1x
• Uninstalled it today. Back to good old Firefox. : SlamDunk
• Blazing. I've already switched over. Just use privoxy for unwanted content issues. When I boot up FF, it ... : Visceral Monkey
• It's my default browser now. : Ziz
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  I realized this morning that - aside from AdBlock missing (which isn't a deal breaker) - I hate the fact ... : ateam311
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    change your default? : Slowtreme
    • I want it to automatically change on its own. I don't want it going to the default folder all the time. : ateam311
• text looks weird, no bookmark pane on left side of screen (i like offsetting text a few inches, im so use... : dignan
• Apparently Chrome chokes on animated gifs. Someone made a forum post with http://content.ytmnd.com/conten... : Slowtreme
• It's completely broken on my work PC. http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=chromesnap_zsxze35hcsov1x3fe... : rock elf

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• shit. yes. : Degenerate
• affirmative. : delataur
• Hell yeah! : Aragoat
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  Absolutely. Then put it on Steam and I'll buy it again (and probably play it more). : valael
  • I agree with this. : Thresher
• I dunno. I buy too many games on XBLA and then never play them. : prime8
• Hells yes. : Carnivac
• Yes : Lawgiver
• Me me me me me me! : nudel
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  No. Waste of money. Give me new Duke, and a demo, then I'll consider buying. Mind you, I learned IPX... : sukabljat
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    How about if they gave you a release date for DNF? : Schnapple
    • Still wouldn't PAY for nostalgia, period. Like Duke, like the franchise's ideas, but I'm spending $0 unt... : sukabljat
• I will check the demo for sure and then decide. Most likely yes. : Tripps
• Most likely. : ConfusedUs
• No. I do not have a 360. : melt_core
• Yep. Figured this would be a good occasion to renew my live subscription, too. : pyrogen
• No. I've still got my Duke files somewhere and I play it from time to time. I might be persuaded if it... : famine101
• Yes, because I was too lazy to download the legacy port for Windows XP and I haven't played Duke3D in a l... : sevogajre
• No, because I try to avoid playing FPS games on consoles when I can. Put it on steam and I'll buy it if i... : Kerath
• With coop, heck yes. : tsuba
• no, because i don't enjoy it that much : papaskot
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  No: Already own it on PC and (thanks to Jonof) can run it at any resolution. : guido anchovy
  • Oh, and the whole FPS on consoles controls thing. I'm terrible with a controller. :( : guido anchovy
• YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS : r3dn3ck
• No, no 360 (I assume you didn't mean this poll just for 360 owners) : Schnapple
• Still debating. : omnova
• Yes. : Thresher
• yes i will buy it : grendel
• I just can't get into retro games. I go back and play games that I loved when they came out and they just... : Dave-A
• Yes. I've messed around with the eduke and the hrp (thanks to dognose) but It'll be nice not to need to m... : Tincan
• Yes, yes I am. I've gotta pick up some more point card things though, I've only got 70 points left and s... : MacemanInTW
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  No. I already played it. There are high res mods for the pc, ect. Why pay for nostalgia? : twifosp
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    Dukematch on XBL is almost enough to make me go out and buy a 360. : daedraug
    • I've got some transformers, and GI joes, and other stuff from your childhood I will sell you if you are i... : twifosp
• Yes : BanjoBoy
• doubt it. Played it to death back in the day. : Fredrik S
• No :( Own and played the crap out of the PC Version and still have it readily available. If multipl... : freak!
• Even if live worked on my Xbox, no. I already beat Duke3D. : Nighteyes
• Yes : Head Rush
• You don't even have to ask. Of course. : jimmy_legs
• No 360. Put it on Steam with the same functionality and 16:10 support and I'll buy it! : pyide
• No: playing old fps's doesn't do it for me. So many advances have happened since Duke, its outdated. : tomatoactivator
• No because I cannot buy it with cash and am forced to use space-bucks by Microsoft . Sorry :( : Richese
• if it was like five bucks and i could get a little bit of nostalgia out of it then maybe but i can't imag... : [fry]
• No, aside from the controller issue, duke needs some fresh material. And I got Doom on XBLA and didn't en... : bostrov
• YES!!! If I had a Xbox 360 :( : Melll
• YES : Mmmmmoo
• I would if I had an Xbox. I'll buy it if you make it to Steam. : A Sponge
• no. never played it before so I don't have any history there. Sure seemed dated now, and I'd rather pay/p... : Slowtreme
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  probably, but still pissed at the lack of actual widescreen. : dopefish
  • Seconded. Hate those borders. : gingerninja
• hell yes. : sigpro
• No. I don't play my XBox 360 enough to justify spending the money on it. : stelth
• No; I simply don't care. : breadsticks
• Not until it is bundled with DNF : gmd
• NOT GAY POST Yes, not only due to nostalgia, but primarily because I think you're a cool guy and I lik... : jingletard
• no, because I have it on PC. it perks my interest, but I want some new content. : chilln
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  no. but i am looking forward to DNF. : xxiv
  • wait how much is it going to be? if it's like 10 bucks then actually i might. : xxiv
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  No, dont have a Gold account. : Flynn
  • ? You don't need a gold account.. : biofrog
• Honestly haven't decided yet. : verbatim
• No, because I don't own an XBOX. (and the game is slowing down the development of DNF) : CRasterImage
• No. I played it when it came out. Just feels a tad dated now. Also, there is so much other quality stuff ... : DrZettl
• No. No 360 : RikiTiki2
• Not planning on it. D3D is a great game and all, but I played it enough when it was new. 12 years ago. : dirge23
• i'd say yes if that was on wiiware :( : jayares
• on the fence... but i'd pay money to play the duke theme in rock band / guitar hero, even if it's not the... : elosorojo
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  It's a big reason why I want an Xbox Arcade : tomservo
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    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ BRILLIANT microsoft should totally make an XBOX Arcade. machines in an arca... : CoRDS
    • what is this "arcade" you speak of? : creep
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  Has anyone played Duke on N64 4 player split-screen multiplayer? If original duke 3d multplayer is anywhe... : jayacheess
  • I did, it was awesome, fuck, would be more fun on xbox with LIVE :( : Melll
• Yes for the multiplayer. I already have it on my Saturn. : geneshifter
• I've already bought it twice for PC why would I buy it again for the same game with worse controls? : Crimsonbeak
• No, because I don't have a 360. As soon as I get one again, I will though. : Vincent Grayson
• No. Owned and beat it in 1996. Not looking to revisit the past. How about DNF? : persecutor
• Probably not. There's a ton of neat stuff I haven't played before that I want to get to. About a ye... : ThomW
• No, there are too many new games that deserve my attention for me to spend time playing games I played 10 : BlackCat9
• No, I don't have a 360. Also, I'm saving up my money to pay for DNF when it comes out. : Maddog_Delphi97
• Yes. : adsriordan
• No. I don't play FPS on console. : Hyper-r3v
• Possibly. It depends if I order one of those Keyboard/Mouse input dealios or not. I borrowed a friend's t : Haxim
• Most likely yea but need a demo first. : kanix
• Yes. Although it will be a little while after it comes out. Money is going elsewhere for the moment! : boughton supreme
• yes, so I can play with dognose. I'll admit it :( : Postal
• No, just not interested. Game is too old. : slacko
• yes. : QMS|superdave
• yes, because it's fun and better than 99% of the shit that is commercially released these days : Drewus
• yes, but i want shadow warrior : X-GOUKI
• No, need a 360 (hook me up george) : lakren
• Probably no. Mostly because I'm kind of done with the 360. I'm on my 3rd one and if it fails, i don't thi... : baron calamity
• No; current backlog is already ridiculously larger than I ever have any hope of completing. : Wadmaasi
• Yes. : CA Flynn
• not sure yet. i love it, but i have it already on pc. ill try the demo and see if i like the controls. : re4ctor
• I would if I had a 360. : freshyk
• yes. Next week I hope. : Fyunch Click
• Dukematches FTW : freakynipples69
• Cause I beat that game before I even had a full head of hair on my meat - its fucking old son. Maybe if i... : mega man
• No. Does it look better? I've never been a BIG fan of Duke though. I bought the remake of Bionic Comm... : flubba79
• no, for a multitude of reasons already stated. and sign a steam contract! that would be a smart move. : lonestar3
• No. Its a franchise whose last real game was 12 years ago. Doesn't interest me anymore. : themaestro2657
• no. I don't play online games with the xbox anymore, so it just doesn't seem worth it : hamachi
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  Yes. I've never played it and I'm sure it doesn't play well with Vista. : Perturbation
  • I haven't had any issues with it in Vista. I haven't played all that much of it, but it works in Vista. : MacemanInTW
• Probably not. Reason? I still have the PC version installed. :D : DOOManiac
• yes. When will it come out? if now, cool. If not, why? : davislovestacobell
• i dont believe the amount of No in this thread. : acidravelamp
• No, as I have the atomic edition sitting right here collecting dust. Maybe if you could let people who al... : headbone
• On the fence. There's the whole nostalgia thing going for it, but I was always more of a Doom fan. I al... : timmie
• Yes. : wykd
• Yes, if its $10 or less. : metalremains
• probably, unless it sucks : cpt_gloval
• I'll try a demo, never played original. : Lightzout
• Depends when it comes out, and how much it costs. These 1200 point games are all great and I need to own ... : Yanks
• No. Kind of a been there done that situation. Maybe later if the price is right, but I doubt it. : K1Bond007
• It depends, how much will George see of it, money-wise? :P : Draco
• no. I don't like the whole play inside a window thing. : mista mista
• I'll be buying it during week one. I may be an annoying asshat, but I support developers. : RomSteady
• probably but not right away. too many other good games came out recently. : dromo5
• Yes. I have so many memories of playing 1-1 deathmatch for hours on end over a 19.2k modem, and I can't ... : Dimmona
• i do not have an XBL : radula
• If it is over $10, no. If it is $10 or less, yes. : pigvomit
• yes because you are awesome. : dahanese
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  Probably not, but I probably would for shadow warrior, and I definitely would for blood 1. : skitzo
  • And i know you guys didn't do blood 1, but im pretty sure the dude is in your guild, give him some purple... : skitzo
• On the fence, leaning no. Despite infinite respect for what Duke 3D brought to gaming, I just never real... : kallanta
• absolutely : pandastrong
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  No, I've purchased it like 3 times. I've played it out and I don't like online multiplayer games where 12... : Super Sparker
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    I guess you avoid all online multiplayer games then. : Pettytheft
    • Bingo. : Super Sparker
  • Just play with shackers. That way, you can have a bunch of 20-40 year olds call you names instead. : Orange Pylon
• I'll see when it comes out. Leaning towards no at the moment, as I've played it plenty of other times. ... : Begawkiness
• no because i'd rather play new games : kn1fe
• ARE YOU FOR OR AGAINST DUKE 3D : cdbeckman
• Probably not, just doesn't interest me enough to buy it and play it again. I bought it way back when, if... : boarder2
• No, I'm not buying a 360 to play one game : Daggoth
• No, because I don't have a 360. Release this updated version for PC and it's bought! : megarust32
• Fuck yes! Dukematch + Coop are the best things ever. : GrimmyD
• Yes, because I want 3DR to have enough money to finish DNF : zerog83
• Yes because I no longer have any idea where my old Duke stuff is and I want to play again! : Blackdawgg
• No. Because I don't have an XBox 360. Send one my way and I'll promise to buy it Goerge! : Dingbat
• Yes. I never played the original and figure the XBLA port will be a good opportunity to do so without ha... : Caboose
• Yes, never played the original due to a time when i was unable to upgrade my computer. I never got around... : Pettytheft
• no ;( you know why : razorblade79
• This must be some elaborate ILTC post from Dognose but I'll still end up buying it on XBLA for nostalgic ... : bawbeh
• Undecided. I am still, sort of, working my way through DOOM on XBLA and will probably want to finish that... : SilverSnake
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  Probably not. I've got a of version already and doom wasn't much fun to play on xbox. : edgewise
  • :( doom was fucking awesome multiplayer on x360. : CoRDS
• Of course, but I would have really liked updated graphics :( How much extra does that add to a budget ... : qwpeoriu
• id buy if it was on steam eh eh : Chandler55
• Depends, will be you on the next episode of Shackers? : socksta
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  I won't because I've already bought it on the pc and more importantly I don't play FPS games on a console... : te[R]ror
  • make that minority : te[R]ror
• No I've already got Duke 3D George, not sure why I'd want it again. Will definitely buy Duke Forever tho... : locater16
• No. bought DOOM and Street Fighter from XBLA, and after the initial nostalgia wears off, you realize it's... : TPSReport
• No, no 360 here. I'd definitely get Castle Cra^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Duke 3D first thing if I did have one, th... : Penis Brittle
• Definitely not. I bought the game once already, even if it was a long time ago, and I don't much relish t... : Bean
• Definitely yes if it has local co-op. I'll have to reconsider if not. : Ely
• I want to, but I have this eerie feeling that you guys will market it as a free game when you preorder DN... : Sailor of Fortune
• No, I don't buy XBLA games. if it was on PSN then probably yes if it was $10 or less, : randomnull
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  I'd buy it on Steam. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    Oh, I don't have a 360, that's why, otherwise yes. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      ^^^ What he said, both times. : five_percent
      • ^^^ ^^ : deviantpaul
• If it is released this upcoming holiday season, no. I think this would have been a great game over the s... : Vegtro
• No. Duke3D had its time. I like retro gaming for strategy games, but not FPS. : MatzL.E.
• no, It's 2008 and Duke 3D looks like ass. Fat pixelated ass. And it doesn't have to. But then I've o... : biofrog
• probably, for old time's sake : red2lucas
• No. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt twice. Seriously. : [7]kami
• Still up in the air, it sounds like great value and I loved the game 10 years ago but I already have a hu... : MikkleThePickle
• dont' have an xbox : terath
• No just sold my 360. Would buy it if it was released on Steam though *wink* : dasampla
• no, i don't own a 360 and i was kinda hoping to see some windows release from you guys that i've been wai... : dfz0r
• Un-decided.. if it's cheap enough for an impulse buy, I'd probably get it for nostalgia alone and to supp... : cause&effect
• YES. if i could buy it more than once i would : CoRDS
• No; dnf. : thief
• Probably. I remember watching my father play it back when it first came out and he would cover up my e... : IndigoAK
• I would if it were for PS3. If I had an easy way to play it on PC I probably would buy it again too. : dopeman
• No. I have a PC, Wii, PS3...no need for a PC Jr. : Jimbo Ro
• Nope, because I know I wont play it. Played it to death on the pc when I was a nipper anyway : steve_o
• Yes! Xbox live multi sounds too good to pass up. : marmite
• No, I've played it before. : Magus
• no, because the stupid points systems rapes us Europeans. I will not buy one single game on live until th... : BigT
• negatory - bad timing. too many wonderful xbla games to play through (and through and through and through... : j0nchan
• No. No 360. PS3 version please and thank you. : treefingers1
• Probably. Maybe not the first week it comes out, but I'll get to it : smegmar
• Yes, that is if it's available outside North America. For example I can't buy Mortal Kombat or Doom from... : dael
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  I would buy it but as Iceland is not an official Xbox Live counry we have to register in another country ... : gummijoh
  • nightmare. : scottythejock
  • germany is but it doesn't help at all, we still don't get it : razorblade79
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    God, it sounds as sucky as Germany, except on an island in the middle of nowhere. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • I think that doesn't help a lot lol : razorblade79
    • Which is better than actually being in Germany. : gummijoh
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    Do you have Steam in Iceland? hi dognose : [7]kami
    • Of course we have. : gummijoh
• nein, my xbox 360 is dead. : massdev
• no, never liked any duke game. : tree8
• if theres a demo i'll try it out, hoping the world isn't all convex when looking around, makes me dizzy : dignan
• nah, i'm not a big console FPS fan : Korban
• no, I'll try the demo. Not worth the money to me. Beat that game years ago. : bagelcc
• Yep, the coop sounds like it will be fun. : jonin
• probably not, depends on price, I prefer not to spend too much on older games with all the new stuff comi... : azenmaster
• I can't comment on if I"m going to purchase something without having basic detail on it, such as price. ... : MoreVespeneGas
• Probably for nostalgia as long as it isn't 15 bucks or something. I'd actually rather see Shadow Warrior ... : MrAdults
• Maybe. If I don't, it will be due to lack of widescreen support. I can't stand a static-bordered 4:3 on m... : silent prophet
• Yes indeed. I didn't get to play it on the PC and have only had a few hours with a PS1 port about 10 year... : scottythejock
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  Duke 3D on a gamepad will be too painful for me to play. : Matt Burris
  • It really isnt bad at all, I was able to pick it up without any problems. And you can remap anything : Maarten Goldstein
• 12 years later and you're still peddling Duke3D :D : NukeDukem
• No 360. :( No plans on getting one either. : avatar_58
• YES! I never really played this game so I'm really looking forward to it. I started PC Gaming with Quak... : FormerHPB
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  No. Duke3d was my 2nd FPS, (Wolfenstein was 1st), and while I enjoyed Duke exponentially more, played it ... : .ka`boom.zZz.
  • P.S. Shadow Warrior is fucking awesome. : .ka`boom.zZz.
• No. I already have a backlog of games I want to play -- Gears Of War, Crackdown, Castle Crashers, Call O... : Ride-My-Rocket
• nope, no Xbox 360 :( : chuck577

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• The "lakes" are the areas that are normally RvR on the "Core" servers. : Vincent Grayson
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  ^^ jup. Regarding chickening, now I know for sure I'll stick to core servers, at least for now. : Noobler
  • yup...no reason to jump on an open server day one IMHO. : byorn
• you awful, awful man : aeg1x
• Hugely disappointing. : crockroches
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  whats this chickening stuff? : GloriousCow
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    When you're in an area for lower level dudes (there's 4 "tiers"), you get turned into a chicken and are i... : Vincent Grayson
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      wtf... that sounds incredibly stupid. : GloriousCow
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        Agreed. This is trend of protect the players' feelings at all costs is getting worse. Why even have... : crockroches
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          All it means is you're not going to get ganked by people much higher than you and you may miss out on som... : valael
          • Also, I think you don't turn into a chicken unless you attack someone. : CRasterImage
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            you could do that without forcing high level players, who have invested 100s or 1000s of hours in your ga... : derelict515
            • Fuck that noise, people who gank all day in STV deserve worse! : xlarti
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              Then don't run around trying to gank newbies? : SilverSnake
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                Why not. It is a PVP oriented game. What's wrong with provoking the other faction into an all out war? S... : [7]kami
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                  In EVE you have security through obscurity. In WoW you didn't. STV was horrible, unless you were doing th... : arsonide
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                    As a low level i enjoyed STV tremendously. Permanent danger is a lot of fun to deal with in an MMO. For m... : [7]kami
                    • IAWTP Thinking back to WoW the some of the funniest times were grinding with friends whilst trying to get... : Vincenoir
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            Is there an opener open server? Do I have to sign a waiver? What point is there in having levels if... : crockroches
            • no leveling would be awesome, especially if it changed to an MMOFPS : RikiTiki2
          • Bah. Bullshit feature imho. Part of the PVP fun should be provoking the other faction by rouging a low lv... : [7]kami
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          It's exciting to know you may be ganked or engage against pvp against someone around your level, its anno... : acidnynex
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            Ganking in my definition = a fight that the victim has little hope of winning. Whether it be through jum... : crockroches
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              That's slightly different, in cases like that you may be able to pop a potion, cast a heal, use an emerge... : acidnynex
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                I think there's a point in expending your resources(life, mana, pots, whatever) where if you're jumped, o... : crockroches
                • "You can overcome enormous level gaps depending on the intelligence of the person attempting to gank you ... : arsonide
                • Everything you just said is wrong (at least in WoW). On my level 70 characters in WoW people try to gank... : jlavrenz
    • you can still harm enemies as a chicken, you just have 1hp health I think. There is even an acheivement t... : aeg1x
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  Why don't we wait to decide the following issues till one week after street date? (the 25th?) - Order... : CRasterImage
  • On another note if you are dead set on Order only or Destruction only give the other faction a shot. At ... : Wombat Woo
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  so stay out of low level zones, what is the problem with that? are you angry because you get a kick out o... : Luminair
  • I think that's what 90% of the anger amounts to. : valael
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    Basically. In choosing an "open" server with other games you've always conceded the fair fight guarantee... : crockroches
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      Oh and the "chicken nonsense" also applies to core servers by the way. It happens whenever you're flagged... : arsonide
      • i've seen screenshots of a bunch of chickens pecking a guy to death : aeg1x
  • Ding. It's the can't "I can't terrorize people who can't fight back!" thing. It's like going to an elemen... : Visceral Monkey
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  Playing the new patch on the elder server. It's really nice :D That's all I'll say. : aeg1x
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    Did they upgrade the graphics? : Visceral Monkey
    • they give you more options to adjust the graphical quality : aeg1x
• Carebear : freakynipples69
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  Wow that is pretty stupid. The whole point of attacking the enemy's lower level players is to get them to... : Evil Benius
  • DARKTIDEEEEE : duncandun
• I got excited trying to avoid being ganked by higher levels in other MMO's too, but let's face it. Most ... : doozer667

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  microsoft bought the rights to make them and then decided not to make any last i heard : deadfish
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    Sold well to the hardcore, but not well enough to fund future installments. : RomSteady
    • Which is a shame, because they were really fun games, especially in multiplayer. : DerHuhnTeufel
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  Mechwarrior: Living Legends is a mod for Crysis being developed in part by one of our own. Sounds good. : SockMonkeh
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    Sounds good, looks awesome and I don't know if it will see the light of day. Mods like these always seem ... : Pettytheft
    • They know of this too and are set to release anything they got soon. They believe the sooner they release... : Sailor of Fortune
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  mechwarrior is basically a mech sim, and sim games basically require sim hardware, so yes, sim games such... : Luminair
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    The Mechwarrior games never required "sim" hardware. Mouse and keyboard was the way for most hardcore of... : Priest77
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      Huh? Mech3 was the most hardcore? My memory is pretty hazy, but I seem to remember Mech3 was when they st... : magila
      • no that was mech 4. Mech 3 had a CRAZY customization mechanic to it that was very very cool. It was defin... : kenmis
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    i played mech2 on kb only. mech3 was m+kb. never played mech4. : cpt_gloval
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      MW4 was lame and didn't allow for arm movement like MW3. A joystick was better for that game. : Priest77
      • That game being MW4 : Priest77
      • the later mechwarrior games felt more like FPSs than mech sims. :/ : smax
  • See Steel Battalion. Awesome hardware, awesome concept, mediocre game. The hardware made the game cost ... : genom
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  Microsoft bought FASA Studios, which was given an exclusive lifetime license to all FASA (Battletech, Sha... : DianeOfTheMoon
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    Good cuz everything after Mechwarrior 2 sucked ass. : Madwacker
    • Agreed. I played Mech2 for hours on end, the other Mech games I got bored of pretty quick. : jonin
  • OK this confirms what I heard last night from a sub-contractor they contacted. : Lightzout
  • That pretty much owns me. The idea of a Shadowrun RPG of any sort is pure happiness to me. : zakazi
  • I wonder if that guy then might shut down that Crysis mod... : Schnapple
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  I think the gameplay would translate pretty well to xbox 360... : Kerath
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    Shut your filthy whore mouth. It's joystick and throttle or NOTHING. : Finestaut
    • I agree, I normally roll my eyes when people talking about console controllers but Joystick and throttle ... : Pettytheft
    • 360 Controllers have small joysticks. Also, I always played those games with keyboard and mouse. : Kerath
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    Yeah except they made mech assault and that game sucked. hello throwing out everything that made the gam... : Nighteyes
    • Well, I didn't say it would automatically be fantastic. : Kerath
    • heh. yeah. i tried so hard to like it : cpt_gloval
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  We need Mech Commander 3. I'm still trying to find my Mech Commander 2 CD now that I have a system that ... : Priest77
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    Mech Commander 2 is freeware now. : zanzares
    • WHAT? LINKZ! : disposition
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  its really too bad. mechwarrior 2 will always have a place of honor in my book. : hirez
  • One of the most memorable games I played. : valael
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  http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/ : cpt_gloval
  • when :( : razorblade79
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  My poor joystick, all dusty and alone. I should go find a copy of Combat Flight Sim 3 or something... I h... : Cliffzorz
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    Also does anyone else get reminded of Mechwarrior when you turn your upper-body to look at something to t... : Cliffzorz
    • Pew-Pew 'That's a headshot' : jasoncrowley
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    For the love of god, play Warbirds or Aces High instead. Awesome, dying games that need more players :( : daedraug
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      warbirds is still around? i was talking with sailor of fortune about that a couple weeks ago.. daamn. : xsoulbrothax
      • Pretty sure it's still there, it's been more than a year since I logged in regularly though. Great memori... : daedraug
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  Is it just me or does a mechwarrior MMO sound like it would be the perfect Sci Fi mmo? : Wombat Woo
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    Sadly that one never hit the shelves :( : razorblade79
    • And it was my favourite time-frame, too... : razorblade79
  • Mechwarrior Mercenaries MMO, just so you could have an MMMMO. : dooberzoo
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  Man I miss the Freespace games, they were so awesome. : Magus
  • get out of here with those games... while they are good, this is a Mechwarrior thread and your pee-on gam... : conandan
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  SHUTDOWN SEQUENCE INITIATED....SHUTDOWN SEQUENCE OVERRIDDEN. : antareus
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    hahaha so true, I was always redlining those damn Mechs. : Arctic Fox
    • hell yeah, I would load the mother fuckers up with the heavy lazers, put it on all fire, and BAM, one sho... : conandan
    • After I played these games I was SURE I wanted a soft female voice in my car, telling me EVERYTHING about... : antareus
• I need a new flight sim (or even better, space sim) game that takes advantage of my joystick. I don't lik... : ieGod

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• Damn it. I missed your post. I did a search, too! : InflatoMonkey
• de ja vu : Phreakin
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  I approve. Looks like the first good non-Jay-and-Silent-Bob film he's done! Looking forward to it. : kallanta
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    I thought Clerks 2 was funny... : InflatoMonkey
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      J&SB were in Clerks 2. And yea, it's great! : kallanta
      • Oh, i thought you meant Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. I fail at reading comprehension. You were talk... : InflatoMonkey
  • also first movie without George Carlin in forever :( : mikecyb
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    It's like Apatow and Smith are combining efforts. : pigvomit
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      oh god :( i like the apatow films a lot... judd, stay away from kevin smith for god's sake : Foxhawk
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        Apatow has nothing to do with this movie at all : mikecyb
        • i can't read, i just saw the two names very close together : Foxhawk
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          Of course not, but looking at the primary cast, the is a strong connection to Apatow movies. It's like A... : pigvomit
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            what because Seth Rogen is the star? that guy is in like 40 movies a year : mikecyb
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              Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, and Craig Robinson. : Prozium
              • Justin Long was also in Walk Hard. Either way, the trailer feels very much like a Kevin Smith movie, b... : Vincent Grayson
            • Not just him, but the guy at the beginning of the trailer, the black dude sitting next to Mewes, and even... : MurrayTheSkull
        • a bunch of his people are in this movie though. : baconisgod
      • Kevin Smith rocks! Well... he doesn't rock, but he is cool! Well... he isn't cool, but I like him! S... : CRasterImage
    • First thing I thought as well. Looks really funny. : joesnizzle
• wow thanks for the post. looks great! : h o s t i l e
• Looks entertaining. : pigvomit
• Looks pretty promising. : Super Sparker
• God, that looks great. Can't wait! : Deathlove
• hahaha looks great : opengl128
• Approved! : notd665
• Looks good. : edgewise
• Craig Robinson is awesome. : Bamtan
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  video can not be found :( : Maarten Goldstein
  • also here - http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/108669/kevin_smiths_zach_and_miri_make_a_porno_new_trailer.ht... : Maarten Goldstein
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  how did Seth Rogen get in such demand? He's horrible, horrible, horrible. : DonkeyPopsicle
  • I'll take him over Jonah Hill any day. Man that fat bastard is annoying. : lightly inclined
  • because he's funny : dignan
  • timing : askedrelic
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    I don't know, but I've gotten laid because I remind chicks of him, so I love him "Knocked Up" got me so m... : graceofdragons
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      graceofdragons, other than all your 'I have a big dick' posts of yore, did you ever post any pics of all ... : lightly inclined
      • After all these years the extreme queerosity of his username still has me in titters : boring gegtik
• Yeah, this could be good. : asylumn
• Looking forward to it, haven't seen a good Kevin Smith film in awhile. : lightly inclined
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  oh shit is that the girl from the bookstore in 40 year old virgin? : FrayLo
  • and the bartender from Invincible : h o s t i l e
• Nice. Looks good. : Fyunch Click
• Oh my god that looks incredible. : lookitzpancakes

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  Me too, holy WOW this is fast :O : dognose
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    I can stretch the comment post box bigger? : dognose
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      <urrggh!> But I post from there!! : nudel
      • not right now you dont : noodleboy723
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  Holy frijoles this is fast : RikiTiki2
  • Windows isn't even this fast : dognose
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  Yep its sweet, never going back to IE or FF. Chrome 4 Life FTW : Melll
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    The only downside is there are no plugins for it... yet. http://www.mojang.com/notch/ld12/breaking/ ... : Maddog_Delphi97
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      flash is already in it.. : jaga
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        Breaking the tower is written in Java. Not flash. Not javascript. Hopefully a Java plug-in will be... : Maddog_Delphi97
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          yes, however.. flash is a plug-in. so you can't say there aren't any : jaga
          • Oh, I see what you mean now. Okay, well I meant at least a plug-in for java. : Maddog_Delphi97
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          Java is available. Install the Java 6 Update 10 beta (32-bit mode) and things will work fine. : Zero|DPX
          • Ok, will do. Thanks. : Maddog_Delphi97
  • I'm betting you were saying the same thing about FF3. Something better will come along, until then, ye... : MercFox1
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  How do I make the top part not blue? : dognose
  • I couldn't figure that out either so I uninstalled it post-haste. It also rendered the shack slower for m... : pyide
  • Install Vista or wait till Google adds options to customize the UI. : Shadowdane
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    Install Vista? It's using Aero on my system. : w00d
    • it looks damn sexy in vista : Perturbation
  • you can't... zero|dpx addressed this earlier... look for the monster thread earlier today (sorry don't ha... : but why
  • http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=6913084&postcount=103 : pyrogen
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  what's the name of the homepage? I want to open that up along with my Google IG page. : redfive
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    about:internets : pyrogen
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      help there's pipes all over my screen, now what? : redfive
      • Hit CTRL-T, since you can't have the homepage show up along with your igoogle page yet :( : pyrogen
    • The Tubes are Clogged! : Altanar
• Other than the ads....its rad. : Jimbo Ro
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  Oh, crap... the tabs are detachable. wtf, it just keeps getting better and better. : Maddog_Delphi97
  • holy shit! that is fucking cool. i always wished IE or FF did this... : but why
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    where are you going to put them : redfive
    • Back pocket FTW!!! : dognose
    • in my pants, aww yeah!! : Maddog_Delphi97
    • this is an essential feature for people running dual monitors : sanchez
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    yah you can reorder the tabs or drag a tab into its own window! Soo awesome! : Shadowdane
    • And you can drag the new window back into the original, merging the tabs back together! Woo! : MaxPete82
• This is so sweet! The incognito browser makes me wish I surfed porn! : dognose
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  so how many of you web devlopers out there realized their pages dont work in chrome? : podizzle
  • one of our internal sites doesn't. We're trying to figure out why. We have a pop-up Javascript calendar... : redfive
  • that's odd, all mine work fine. : anthonybean
• When oh when will this be released for Mac?? : lookitzpancakes
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  Speed comparisons for javascript: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html?tag=txt : Dave-A
  • holy shit, it completely blows away the other browsers. : Maddog_Delphi97
• Tonight's local news ads were pimping Chrome. Very interesting. : djkenohki
• It's nice, very quick. But I really miss my greasemonkey scripts :( : yosemiteclimber
• This is making the rest of my computer faster :) : dognose
• How bad is it that I absolutely can't shack without greasemonkey scripts :( : Flying h4x0r
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  I am trying to figure out if I will surf the internet less because everything goes so fast I will save so... : hirosushima
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    Our data says you are likely to do the latter :) : Zero|DPX
    • THERE'S A SPY SAPPIN' MAH BROWSER!! : Maddog_Delphi97
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  I find myself downloading lots of files just to see the cool animations! Open up a new tab and hit Ctrl+... : DrWaffles
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    Haha. Animations were one of the last things we got to -- that bookmark bar animation came in in the las... : Zero|DPX
    • Hahaha, nice! If you see him, tell him I really enjoyed that mod - even made my own gunlight.tga! : mn3m0n1c
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  Just wondering, is Chrome faster than the windows version of Safari for these sites that seem to be reall... : giantshift
  • For rendering webpages, probably not. But the new javascript engine makes a huge difference! Dave-A... : DrWaffles
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  Mmmm very fast so far. is there anyway to get ride of that little pop up in the bottom corner when you mo... : drewroy
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    You can't disable it at the moment. It's so annoying :( : DrWaffles
    • good, so its not just me that hates that. : drewroy
    • Oh god on dark sites like the shack it is very annoying. While browsing the comments my eyes keep gettin... : moneyshot
  • I look up when I hover on stuff : dognose
• I really like the laid back approach with the menu's, options and alerts. The incognito part about secre... : legsbrogan
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  mouse-wheel click scrolling doesn't work for me :( : packav
  • me either : legsbrogan
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    It's not supported, may be added later. : acidnynex
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      Is that where you hold down the mouse wheel down and scroll? : Maddog_Delphi97
      • Yes sir. : acidnynex
  • Until Chrome came out, I never knew people did this. I always thought it was a 'oh damn i meant to scrol... : slax0r
  • Spacebar and Shift+Spacebar is faster, anyway. : Matt Burris
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  OMG someone just knocked and google told me who was at the door! :O : dognose
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    google wiped my butt earlier.. A+ will use again : jaga
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      Unfortunately, the used toilet paper is now the number one search result for "goatse." : RomSteady
      • ctrl+shift+B for bidet : jaga
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    was it google at the door? : pyrogen
    • This response posted when I was halfway finished typing it! : dognose
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgV6-gnQaE : djkenohki
• This is really slick, incognito ftw. : shortbuscaptain
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  yeah i like this, uh will greasemonkey etc work with it? : Ziz
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    uh yeah firefox adon. but yeah miss my spoiler shortcuts. : Ziz
    • Wait can I lol? How? : dognose
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  I can't get used to the tabs being at the top of the browser rather then under the address bar area, I ke... : vynn
  • yeah the scrolling is definitely going to require some getting used to. Doesn't seem as smooth as FF : okhelosir
  • I really don't like the tabs being at the top. They're just a bit further out of my way than in other bro... : Sacred Sperm
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  Yeah, I was extremely impressed with how wicked fast Google Chrome was, but it's definitely not ready to ... : Bean
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    the address bar is the search bar, uses google by default, and uses every other site you visited that has... : xxx2xxx
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      Yeah, I've been playing with it a little more, and that is pretty cool. There are still too many little t... : Bean
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        Yeah it definitely needs improvement, on my laptop I think I'll keep using it, the speed improvement and ... : xxx2xxx
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          Yeah I like what I see so far, and the speed is very impressive. I definitely have high expectations due ... : Bean
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            I also don't like how you can't middle-click on a folder in the bookmarks toolbar to open tabs of all the... : Bean
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              Another behavior niggle - in a bookmarks folder dropdown, if I do choose to right click and "Open All Boo... : Bean
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                This is an interesting one. I had never tried nesting bookmarks inside Firefox folders and then middle-c... : Zero|DPX
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                  yeah I liked that firefox would ask for confirmation. I had bookmark folders sitting on my toolbar and wo... : aeg1x
                  • Also a double-click opens a new tab in FF, which I use a lot since I figured that out. Probably won't wor... : razorblade79
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                  When I first started using Firefox, I actually expected it to behave the way Chrome does now, so I can't ... : Bean
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                    Oh, the reason I prefer the way FF does it is because in the "Chrome approach" if I have mixed bookmarks ... : Bean
                    • Your "lame workaround" is what I'd probably suggest as "logical organizational system" :D : Zero|DPX
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    I still can't believe so many people use the middle mouse button to scroll, I've always found it slower a... : sanchez
    • it's not slower if you click high on the page and drop your mouse down a long way from the icon. It's als... : aeg1x
    • That's the point. You can set it to autoscroll on a page full of text at a very slow speed (moderate spee... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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  I like it as well. Most pages load very fast. But I noticed that as soon as I start Chrome my harddrive i... : Nihil ME
  • there is a spell check : sanchez
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    We have spellchecking, and we can restore your browser session either after a crash or every time you lau... : Zero|DPX
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      Ah thx. I should have checked the options before complaining :) About the spellcheking: Is it possible... : Nihil ME
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        Yes, in our options dialog click the "fonts and languages" button. : Zero|DPX
        • Thx again. Its rather complicated for people who use different tabs and different languages all the time.... : Nihil ME
    • "And adblocking isn't a component of any major shipping browser. " Not a standard component, but there... : fishbone
• good first release but still nowhere close to FF3 : brewsterdog
• It's fast and really good, but I just can't go past the customisability of Firefox. I've got FF running ... : moneyshot
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  Also what the hell is up with it not having a master password for stored passwords!? It might be a bit o... : moneyshot
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    It is false security. I'm not putting in something that doesn't help just to play security theater :) : Zero|DPX
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      But now anyone can see your passwords unless you lock your computer. Not everyone knows how to crack pas... : moneyshot
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        I wouldn't mind a password protected browser, that you need to log in to for browsing, that way you could... : acidnynex
        • Yes, this is more the angle I'd prefer. Such a login could also serve as single-sign-on to various onlin... : Zero|DPX
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      ?!? It would most certainly work in about 90% of cases. Just because something isn't 100% bullet proof ... : fishbone
      • Yeah, who cares if it's not 100% safe. Consider it more "tamper-proof". Anyone can grab someone's lapto... : moneyshot
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  It installed in Japanese because my OS is in Japanese, and I don't see any way of changing it... I hate ... : Kenshin_
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17832388#itemanchor_17832388 : Maarten Goldstein
    • I completely missed that tab... it worked, thanks!! : Kenshin_
• goddamn you're right! this shit is blazing fast : El Tigre
• What's this? "By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable,... : GreatGooglyMoogly
• Man, I've got Firefox so tweaked and tuned to how I like it at this point, I don't think I could ever swi... : Helter Skelter
• Holy shit, I just noticed you can drag the post comment box to be bigger... And it doesn't bounce the ... : Magus
• I cant load up one webpage on that fucker. Just gives me some sad face and I get nothing out of it. FF an... : gummijoh
• I don't get this, on my home computer its about twice as SLOW as Firefox. Much slower loading, much slowe... : BigT

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• porn is porn dude... just fill up the 4 gigs, and when you tire of it, get another 4 : mankeroo
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  regular thumb drive + pgp? :