Freaking hippies.So its firefox, but they have cleverly minimized the amount of space toolbars take up, which was one of my biggest beefs with FF. They've also rounded all the edges, which seems to easily confuse people into believing it is futuristic.
I haven't seen the marked improvements in response time, but we've been shedding packets like crazy here at work today for some reason, so the problem could certainly be on my end. Google maps doesn't respond any faster, and perhaps seems a bit slower.
I'll post again in a week to be fair, I like FF3 and have it pretty tweaked, but I do believe that people will flock to the google bandwagon quickly enough that all of my beloved plugins will be ported in a month or less and then I will have a browser that runs faster than FF and allows me to see more of the screen, ultimately winning me over.
This is a good step 1 for google to the browser OS in the future.
Edit: I would also like to add a few more things I like. The main url of the website appears in darker text than the rest of the html up top, making it clear that I am at blogger.com, not http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2218358490107332542&postID=1288895734450479110 which is kinda nice.
Also, the recently closed tabs thing is cool.
However, one thing FREAKING ME OUT is that when I open a new window, it DOES NOT OPEN MAXIMIZED. There is no way to fix this in the settings, unlike Lance's beef about the pop up blocker pop up. For those of us who prefer multi-window browsing to multi-tab, this is very annoying.
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did you rollback to XP or is that not a screenshot from your comp?
agreed on the new window thing as well.
it's funny, incognito combined with the fact that all popups spawn at the bottom of the screen out of site seem to indicate an expectation that many of these popups will contain things that require...discretion to bring to the fore. too bad this blog is SFW. heh.
what's so annoying about these little things is that they don't even give us the option to change the way it works. so I'm stuck with retarded tabs and you're stuck with buried windows. it's bad enough that I had to rely on a freakin' extension to even have the chance of correcting this in Firefox, so it's real disappointing that Google didn't include these no-brainers in their options.
still, the speed alone is worth it. holy crap. I can just feel that Chrome is making so much better use of system resources in loading up pages than FF.
I think I have, and I'm sure you guys have developed as well, this innate sense of when a particular process is exerting load on your hardware, just some the numerous but imperceptible cues from the computer, and this definitely feels much smoother.
Even though it's still in Beta -- some vulnerabilities have already started popping up in Chrome. Sticking with Opera for now, but Chrome's performance shows serious promise.
This is my work computer where we still have XP, and I agree that Chrome probably sucks half the resources of FF, but note my latest angry rant, for some reason it just decided to tell me the internet wasn't there when it was...
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