Comments on: Google Chrome setup

By: Leon Zandman

Leon Zandman — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:18:40 +0000

Talking about low-impact setup: Just recently I bought and installed the X-Plane flight simulator as an alternative to MS Flight Simulator. I was amazed its default installation location is the user's desktop! Also the installer doesn't create any desktop or start menu shortcuts. It turns out they want X-Plane to have an low-impact setup. Because of all the problems with installing to the Program Files directory the decided on using the desktop. And creating no shortcuts and not using the registry also makes the uninstall a breeze:just delete the X-Plane installation directory. Very simple, but I like it.

By: George Toms

George Toms — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:03:05 +0000

Google Chrome is really fast!

Now I can sort 200,000 records inside of Browser (Chrome) just in 1 sec. (Faster than Microsoft Excel):

http://www.ardentedge.com/ex_if.htm

By: crazyburns

crazyburns — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:14:54 +0000

The per user install is extremely stupid. I run multiple user on my home computer, so it means that Chrome has to be installed separately for each user. At 80 MB it’s not large, but with 5 user that’s over 400 MB of drive space for a 80 MB app.

Also for a corporate environment it make deploying the software a nightmare. Instead of installing the app once on 5,000+ machines you now have to install it dozens of times per 5,000+ machines.

By: LukeB

LukeB — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:14:36 +0000

The per-user install was the first thing I noticed since I run as a normal user on XP.

I’m a fan of it.

By: Brent Powers

Brent Powers — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:35:04 +0000

I’m stunned at a couple of things.

First, I see nothing that isn’t already in Opera, other than –

Second, Google’s desire, ability, and intent to track all characters typed with IP frightens the hell out of me.

Third – the thing’s an abomination in a corporate environment. Beta software? on non-priveleged users machines? Skype also did the per user install, and then there was a skype per use virus. Skype is blocked in our environment now. I’m not yet sure how we’re going to block this abomination.

By: Colby Ringeisen

Colby Ringeisen — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:29:16 +0000

My company has banned Chromium from corporate computers due to the draconian EULA which gives Google too much authority over content created in the browser.

By: Brent Rockwood

Brent Rockwood — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:17:57 +0000

Funny you should blog about this. I’m all for bootstrap installers, but it seems Google’s does not respect IE’s proxy settings, which means that many folks will be stuck. A little ironic, I think.

By: media boy

media boy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:56:53 +0000

despite the rumors, i’m finding Chrome’s speed to be inconsistent; it seems to alternate between going lightning fast and then hanging for no apparent reason…

By: Christopher Painter

Christopher Painter — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:19:29 +0000

What kind of trend would we want here? Windows Installer Tao already talks about Per-User installs are difficult to service and Robert Flaming has blogged that this type of model is good for “viral applications distributed via the web” but not good if you want to “grow-up to be distributed inside a corporation.”

This type of deployment story has it’s uses, but it’ll be problematic for enterprises that want to deploy the software. There should also be an offiline installer that supports an AllUsers install using tools such as SMS.

(BTW I repackaged apps and pushed them with GPO and SMS for 2 years in an 18,000 seat forest so I’m not just quoting blog articles… I’m speaking from experience.)

Eitherway, I’ve been using the browser for a bit now and I’m liking it a lot.

By: Monologue

Monologue — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:06:19 +0000

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