Chrome? I Want To Love Ya
Google is smart and oh-so-sly. The company released its Chrome Web browser and everyone's writing about it.
One article I saw recently says Chrome grabbed a bunch of users in short order (see "Chrome Grabs 1 Percent of Market in Under 24 Hours"). I don't know whether to doubt that--or just wonder. According to PC World.com's tracking service, 36 percent of all visitors to the site use Firefox, 31 percent use Internet Explorer 7, 17 percent use IE 6, and the rest are on Safari, Opera, AOL, and Mozilla. Chrome wasn't on the list when I checked the other day.
I did an informal poll on a private list I moderate and with 100 people responding, 60 percent of the responders tried Chrome, but went back to their original browser.
Google's Wonder Browser?
Sure, I know that you've read reviews of Chrome, and many of you have tried it. Here are my observations.
The fact that each tab is really a window running a separate process is innovative and smart. Each tab is independent, so if one tab is slow loading, or has a scripting problem and jams, there's no adverse impact on the others.
Speed--fast-loading pages--is Chrome's best achievement (aside from scaring the pants off of Microsoft, of course). The browser's underlying architecture, and the tab independence, lets most Web sites fly open faster than I've seen since I moved to broadband from dial-up.
A Few Show Stoppers
Chrome is still in development, so it's missing those cool things built into your favorite browser, the tools you're used to having at your disposal.
I'm a huge fan of Maxthon, a free browser that uses IE's engine, and Chrome doesn't even come close. For instance, Chrome won't let me assign a sticky to a tab, send a tab to the desktop, or create groups of Web sites. Even a simple task like dragging and dropping a link onto a browser window to open a new tab isn't available.
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Yeah, dats correct atleast
Yeah, dats correct atleast roboform should work wid it. Many webmasters has problem to surf wid chrome because it doesn't yet support more plugins which FF3 has, would like to use chrome with more plugins like FF3, which gives standard and fast browsing exp. Custom Web Design SEO Services Web Development