Friday, September 5, 2008

Google Chrome

The new browser from Google has been relished in Beta and can be downloaded from here: http://www.google.com/chrome. But you probably know this already from the hundreds of blogposts from arround the world. I installed this new browser, play around with it and I can't say that I'm a part of either "Just loving it" or "Just hating it" groups.
I see that most people that are against it argue that Chrome does not bring anything new to the world. But what would you like it to bring? It's just a browser, it does not preapre french fries and I'm quite sure it was not indented to do this.
What I like about Chrome:
- The tabs put in the top bar is a big change. After a couple of hours of using this your 17 inch screen will look like a 19 inch one. This is specially good for the new mini-laptops that are in vogue right now
- The element inspector as part of the browser. Yes, they copied Firebug, so what. Bad that you can't edit the page like with Firebug.
- It's a stable system for a beta version. Beside some Ajax features on facebook profile page that do not work, I didn't manage to find any other big bugs

What I dislike at Chrome:
- I'm missing the Status bar (or at least the possibility to make it appear with ALT+F like in IE7). For a windows only software I can't get used living without the status bar
- New "home-page". Yes, I know I can disable it, but what was the main idea behind this? I don't want to open a browser in front of my boss or during a demo and have miniclip.com, youporn or whatever in there. And you can always have this surprise as the page is adjusted automatically.


I will came back with more about this once I'll have more Google Chrome usage hours behind me.

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