ChromePlus 1.5.2.0

Rated 40/50 by golfingdude at Nov 9, 2010

Some reviews are just plain stupid. This is not spyware, if you did a complete reinstall, well, says something about your ability to give a competent review. I was using this, than read Google Chrome 7.0 had security and flash upgrades so went back. That did not last to long as even the standalone download took over 100 mbs of disk space. No big deal in today's computing world where 250gig hard drives are only on the medium size for a hard drive. But if you are using an older machine with less than 100gigs, 100mbs is a lot. My download was 102gigs before add-ins or even using the browser. That is more than twice as much FireFox, Opera, IE 8. My question is why the heck is Google Chrome so bloated and with what???? ChromePlus is a cool browser, I have read AdBlocker is rendering very slow but I haven't really noticed. Being Chromium based though it is still lagging once you start to open tabs. Firefox though slower to start up will flat out fly by Chrome when the tabs start to be opened. Still if you have Firefox and wanted another browser based on something besides Gecko, this is a great choice. Opera is a good one also but no matter how much I have tried, I just can't gear into the interface and user intensive involvement to have a browser that looks and performs like it should. Besides the lack of quality add-ins for safe browsing and effective ad blocking are a serious omission that limit Opera. Security questions raised about ChromePlus? Well practice the safe browsing lessons you have all probably read and you should be cool. Only say should, because name any piece of software you can positively say is crack or hack proof. I should say that Opera does claim to have adblocking functionality as well as site rating built in. This could be, I couldn't get the handle on the ad blocking program. Though I didn't read all the help and stuff, since I just wanted to surf not learn programming. And call me paranoid, but I prefer third party security t

Rated 40/50 by TC17 at Dec 15, 2010

I do like this ChromePlus. Its like the SRWare Iron Browser that has taken out the Google spyware. You can also download a Winapp2.ini file off of the CCleaner website forums, so you can use CCleaner with ChromePlus. Apparently ChromePlus is based off of the Chromium Browser (which is newer versions than Google Chrome is). Edit: After trying this more, it seems to have bugs. Firefox actually is faster in my opinion. The only problem I have with Firefox is it has some bug where it crashes on me a lot.

Rated 20/50 by Input Overload at Dec 31, 2010

This has all the things that I ditched Firefox for, I like to choose which ad blocker I want etc. This release is more unstable than I am, Imaged back to latest Chrome on 'Dev' channel. With the price of large drives at almost giveaway prices I don't care how big a browser is. Add up all the Firefox & IE hidden folders within Windows & you will see Chrome is OK.

Rated 50/50 by ghostrider951 at Dec 31, 2010

This actually a bit behind...................if you go to the Chromeplus home page they have just today released Alpha2. To find it on the home page look in the forum. I have used Alpha1 and now using Alpha2 and like it very much. Its based on Chrome's version 8.0.552.

Rated 50/50 by betasun at Mar 15, 2011

Its my default now .very swift and fast .

Rated 10/50 by Mr Swiffer at Apr 21, 2011

It's not as good as the official Google Chrome browser, but then cheap quality knockoffs never are.

Rated 40/50 by Bala7 at Apr 22, 2011

arguments ??? what arguments ? Non have been offered besides one sentence worth of drivel.

Rated 50/50 by tomkaten at Apr 22, 2011

Swiffer, you just like the sound of that, right ? You can't be taken seriously, since your arguments are terrific but missing entirely. This is everything I ever needed in a browser. Light, extremely fast, no official Chrome tracking and annoying autoupdate tools included, has mouse gestures, adblock (granted, not very good yet, but you can always use the excellent Adblock + for Chrome extension). And the icing on the cake is that it handles external links passed by outside software correctly, as opposed to Srware Iron, which used a different profile when handling external links. Oh, and by the way, the included download manager is great. It's multithreaded for insane download speeds and can be set as the default downloader. For links that dislike download managers, you can hold ALT while clicking on a link and it will pass it to Chrome's default downloader.