I have downloaded and am trying the new Google web Browser Chrome. First impression is... FAST very fast. Flipping between tabs is snappy too. One of the first things i like is the lack of header bars or the minimal use of them.. More window for your website.
PS the address bar doubles as the search bar but nothing new there.
Right now, it is still a bit new and so far only flash seems to work with it from the plugin dept. It was suppose to work well with java i had read but it does not seem to support. I reinstalled and still a no go. I do like the snappyness. It just came out today so i'll keep playing.
I don't think I am going to download it. I really like all the extra's I have in Firefox.
If I could take one thing from Chrome and put it in Firefox, it would be the fact that each tab is a seperate process. I hate when one tab locks all of my sites up. I've managed to work around it by going to the Process and killing it, then reopening Firefox and restoring the sites. The trick is killing the bad page asap otherwise you wind up in a loop.
OK, with all the speed it does not account for the fact that many of my sites will not run on it. It still has some growing to do. I figure that growing will slow it down. Good start but still a ways to go.
Raze wrote:OK, with all the speed it does not account for the fact that many of my sites will not run on it. It still has some growing to do. I figure that growing will slow it down. Good start but still a ways to go.
I thought it was supposed to be MORE compatible than IE or FF. I guess the internet in general isn't all that compatible. So the 'standards' aren't really standard?
The biggest problem doc is M$ doesn't follow the standards, so you have to to make a choice. Do you design to the standards or do you design for the majority of browser users?
One of the thing that bugged me was java. I could not get the basted thing to work with anything java. Also. It appears to be riddled with vulnerabilities. Like i said. Good start. Still a ways to go. Good reason it is called "beta". 😀
I liked Chrome when I pulled it up, however I really like the Firefox RSS feed reader/Bookmark thingie.. when the chrome picks up something like that.. bonus.
I do like the start page on Chrome though.. very nice.
But does it really need to be every app? Think of the grandma's who just need internet and documents?
The article has an interesting point on Encarta on CD. I think that's where we are today and in five years, things will be closer to making this happen.
Atomm wrote:But does it really need to be every app? Think of the grandma's who just need internet and documents?
If Google's business plan is targeting grandma's for this, sell your Google stock now 🙂 I get what you are saying though. The thing is, this does have a real life application now in a business world where money can be made.
Well I can see both sides. I can see companies where they don't need the real software. But I also see alot of old school IT directors and CEOs who are goign to require retail boxes of their software.
Then there are guys like me who don't trust cloud computing and may not ever. I want my documents and my software under my limited control. I have seen too many times where a nifty piece of cloud software goes belly up and no one gives a crap that you adapted youur whole business to it. Google does this with many of their projects, the person leaves the company so they dont continue the project. I need reliability (I don't mean 100% uptime but a guarentee that it will be there in 5 years).
If Android uses it, then I could see real world use right now.
I understand where you are coming from, but I think we will continue to see this push towards cloud computing and moving back to a centralized data center. I went through some of that at Big B. I just thought this was an interesting note on the product.