Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Chrome First Impressions

EDIT: What a POS. For some reason, Chrome will not let me navigate the internet and is acting like the internet is down, when switching to firefox I have no problem reaching the exact same page. I have been getting zip done this morning because I thought I had no internet. I'm uninstalling Chrome and will check back in 6 months.

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.