Chrome (new Google Browser) compatibility?

paulbrock · September 2, 2008

So presumably no-one's yet able to test out Smugmug pages on the new Google browser yet?

Any issues anticipated?

paulbrock · September 2, 2008

OK, so apparently Chrome uses Webkit, the same renderer as Safari.....which I haven't tested my site on either!!

Andy · September 2, 2008

I expect plenty of issues

We'll start reviewing it once it's available.

For the record, our officially supported browsers are:

IE6
IE7
Firefox Mac / Win
Safari Mac / Win

Andy · September 2, 2008

Looks okay so far, just a quick look see - things seem to work for the most part

We'll see about getting it into our QA cycle and when I have news on that we'll let y'all know!

paulbrock · September 2, 2008

Can't spot any problems either - it's VERY fast as well!

mike.strock · September 2, 2008

paulbrock wrote:

Can't spot any problems either - it's VERY fast as well!

I installed it in a Windows VM. It's VERY fast. It didn't have any issues with my domain hosted here at Smugmug.

It's based on the same engine as Safari, and has some Gecko bits (which are underneath Firefox). I would expect it would work OK.

I used it on my site for 10-15 minutes, not an exhaustive test, but it did seem to work well, and it is pretty fast, even in a VM.

Mike.

edmaine · September 2, 2008

mike.strock wrote:

I installed it in a Windows VM. It's VERY fast. It didn't have any issues with my domain hosted here at Smugmug.

It's based on the same engine as Safari, and has some Gecko bits (which are underneath Firefox). I would expect it would work OK.

I used it on my site for 10-15 minutes, not an exhaustive test, but it did seem to work well, and it is pretty fast, even in a VM.

Mike.

i have it on my work laptop, i just uploaded one photo successfully, although only the "Olde Faithful" works, no plugins yet for Simple uploader...

actually, posted this reply using Chrome...

bwg · September 2, 2008

mike.strock wrote:

I installed it in a Windows VM. It's VERY fast. It didn't have any issues with my domain hosted here at Smugmug.

It's based on the same engine as Safari, and has some Gecko bits (which are underneath Firefox). I would expect it would work OK.

I used it on my site for 10-15 minutes, not an exhaustive test, but it did seem to work well, and it is pretty fast, even in a VM.

Mike.

Where did you see that they were using Gecko?

mike.strock · September 2, 2008

bigwebguy wrote:

Where did you see that they were using Gecko?

I recant my statement. I can't find it. I probably *thought* I read it somewhere. My mistake, I apologize.

Mike.

edmaine · September 2, 2008

mike.strock wrote:

I recant my statement. I can't find it. I probably *thought* I read it somewhere. My mistake, I apologize.

Mike.

actually, Chrome is identifying itself as a Safari browser... at least that is what the HTTP request reports:

HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

I think this where Mike saw the Gecko thingy....

mike.strock · September 2, 2008

edmaine wrote:

actually, Chrome is identifying itself as a Safari browser... at least that is what the HTTP request reports:

HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

I think this where Mike saw the Gecko thingy....

I thought I saw on Om Malik's blog, or on JKOnTheRun that it was based on Gecko. Obviously, I'm mistaken, and apologize for the misspeak.

It is a very fast browser. I would miss my Firefox plugins though.

Mike.

cmason · September 2, 2008

Well I tried this on my smugmug site to check it out, and it passed with flying colors (well, actually I didnt check the colors...thats a to do)

The only issue I have found in these parts is with DGrin:

If I look at the bottom of any thread, in FF, Safari or IE, it looks like this:

But in Chrome, it looks like this (notice extra options)

Safari does NOT do this, nor does any browser other than Chrome.

mteicher · September 3, 2008

Google Chrome (new Google Browser)
Just downloading Google Chrome this morning, I will be probably putting it through it's paces later this afternoon, hopefully all the plug-ins that I use to upload to smugmug will work

bham · September 5, 2008

With the chrome browser, I tried to add photos to a gallery with the simple uploader and I get a "No plugin available to display this content" message. From both the mac and windows list. I am on windows but since people said it was identifying itself as a safari browser, I figured I try the mac list. Well I guess I need to use old faithful.

mike.strock · September 5, 2008

bham wrote:

With the chrome browser, I tried to add photos to a gallery with the simple uploader and I get a "No plugin available to display this content" message. From both the mac and windows list. I am on windows but since people said it was identifying itself as a safari browser, I figured I try the mac list. Well I guess I need to use old faithful.

BHam - The Chrome browser may actually persuade a number of people (myself included) to move from the in browser upload tools to a (better) upload tool such as Star*Explorer. (No, I didn't write Star*Explorer, and I don't make any money off of it).

But Chrome is pretty nice. No Java support, from what I could see.

Mike.

cmason · September 5, 2008

You need to get Java for Chrome, but at the moment it requires an updated Java plugin from Sun. it is still in beta:

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95282&query=java&topic=&type=

mike.strock · September 5, 2008

cmason wrote:

You need to get Jave for Chrome, but at the moment it requires an updated Java plugin from Sun. it is still in beta:

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95282&query=java&topic=&type=

Great. Didn't know that. Still think Star*Explorer is a better alternative.

Mike.

cmason · September 5, 2008

mike.strock wrote:

Great. Didn't know that. Still think Star*Explorer is a better alternative.

Mike.

couldn't agree more

pancamo · September 5, 2008

1st impression of chrome...

1. Smugmug site looks the same as IE7, however non-cache pics "pop" a little slower than IE7.
2. No default RSS integration... I love IE7 RSS...
3. I like the most visited on new tabs
4. I don't like the Oiler Love Ya blue default color..

Google should have included more features before putting out the beta...

IE7 is still #1 for me...

Andy wrote:

Looks okay so far, just a quick look see - things seem to work for the most part

We'll see about getting it into our QA cycle and when I have news on that we'll let y'all know!

Montec · September 6, 2008

I have been using it for a few days. One thing I have noticed is that sometimes the bottom half of the screen does not load, it just goes pure white. A quick refresh and it completely loads.

It is very fast. I think for a BETA it looks very promising.

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